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Brown at 50 Chronology Page 5 of 7
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 1954 | Bolling v. Sharpe 347 U.S. 497 (1954): separate-but-equal violates the Fifth Amendment guarantee of due process; consolidated with Brown for remedial issues (Brown II) |
| 1955 | Brown v. Board of Education, 349 U.S. 294 (1955) (BrownII): desegregation to proceed with "all deliberate speed" |
| 1955 | Emmett Till lynched |
| 1955-56 | Rosa Parks and the Montgomery bus boycott; Martin Luther King Jr. emerges as a leader |
| 1957 | President Eisenhower orders National Guard to Little Rock, Arkansas, to escort nine black students to Central H.S. to enforce Brown |
| 1958 | Cooper v. Aaron, 358 U.S. 1 (1958): reaffirms Brown as the law of the land nationwide and explicitly state the duty of state office holders to follow it |
| 1959 | Prince Edward County, Virginia, closes all of its public schools rather than desegregate them |
| 1960 | Sit-ins at segregated lunch counters |
| 1960 | Boynton v. Virginia, 365 U.S. 454 (1960): African American has a federal statutory right to be served without discrimination at a restaurant located in an interstate bus terminal. |
| 1961 | Freedom Rides to integrate Southern bus terminals |
| 1962 | Forcible integration of Ole Miss |
| 1963 | Brimingham campaign to end segregation leads to police riots |
| 1964 | to hereGriffin v. County School Board of Prince Edward County, 377 U.S. 218 (1964): The Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment prohibits appropriating public money to support private, segregated education |
| 1964 | Civil Rights Act of 1964 bans discrimination in voting, places of public accommodation, schools, and employment |
| 1965 | Voting Rights Act / Elem. & Second. Educ. Act - w/hold from seg sch. |
| 1967 | Thurgood Marshall appointed to the Supreme Court |
| 1968 | Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated |
| 1968 | Fair Housing Act banning discrimination in housing |
| 1968 | *Green v. County School Board of New Kent County (Va.), 391 U.S. 430 (1968): mandating elimination of vestiges of segregation "root and branch." |
| 1971 | Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education, 402 U.S. 1 (1971): Busing to achieve desegregation is permitted by the Supreme Court |
| 1974 | * Milliken v. Bradley, 418 U.S. 717 (1974): (Milliken I: Interdistrict (urban v suburban) desegregation plans are not constitutional |
| 1976 | Washington v. Davis, 426 U.S. 299 (1976): Equal Protection Clause limited to intentional discrimination |
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