Civil Rights Movement History
1968

Orangeburg Massacre (Feb)

For more information:
Books: South Carolina Movement
Web: Orangeburg SC Movement & Orangeburg Massacre of 1968

Natchez Protests (Feb???)

Memphis Garbage Workers Strike (Feb-April)

Photos

For more information:
Books: Memphis Garbage Strike
Web: Memphis Garbage Workers Strike

Dr. King Assasinated in Memphis (April)

For more information:
Books: Martin Luther King Assasination
Web: MLK Assasination in Memphis

Tuskegee Expells All Students (April)

Fair Housing Act of 1968 (April)

See Civil Rights Act of 1968 for text of the Act as enacted.
See Fair Housing Act of 1968 for just the sections that apply to Fair Housing.

For more information:
Books: Civil Rights Legislation
Web: Civil Rights Act 1968 (AKA "Fair Housing Act")

The Fall of Resurrection City

See Poor Peoples Campaign for preceding events.

Photos

For more information:
Books: Poor People's Campaign and Resurrection City
Web: Poor People's Campaign and Resurrection City
Documents:
 The Other America Dr. Martin Luther King
 Poor People's Campaign

End of Dual White & "Colored" School Systems

See Integrating Americus High School for preceding events.

For more information:

See also:
Student Strike at Moton High
Students and Parents Challenge School Segregation
NAACP Builds the Case
Brown v. Board of Education
"Massive Resistance" to Integration
"All Deliberate Speed" Decision
Clintion, Tennessee — First White School Desegregated
Nashville "Grade-a-Year" School Desegregation Scheme
The Little Rock Nine
Youth March for Integrated Schools — Washington, DC
New Orleans School Desgregation
Massive Evasion of School Integration
Integrating Americus High School
Crawfordville, GA, School Bus Struggle

For more information:
Books: Schools and School Desegregation
Web: Brown v. Board of Education 1950-1954

Wallace Campaign and the "Southern Strategy"

Campus Uprisings Nationwide (1968-1972)

For more information:

1967

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