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This is a timeline of the civil rights movement in the United States, a nonviolent mid-20th century freedom movement to gain legal equality and the enforcement of constitutional rights for people of color.
The civil rights movement was a social movement and campaign from 1954 to 1968 in the United States to abolish legalized racial segregation, discrimination, and disenfranchisement in the country.
- Occupy Wall Street. It began in Zuccotti Park on September 17, 2011, and quickly spread to hundreds of cities. Within a few weeks, police had pushed protesters out of local parks.
- The Fight for $15. The idea of a $15 minimum wage was a pipe dream in 2010 but now is mainstream. A Brookings Institution report released in November 2019 found that more than 53 million people, or 44 percent of all workers ages 18 to 64, earn low hourly wages.
- Black Lives Matter. It started as a hashtag in 2013, led by three black women activists in response to the acquittal of Trayvon Martin’s murderer, George Zimmerman.
- Women’s March and #MeToo. The largest protest in U.S. history (four million-plus people in cities across the country) occurred the day after Trump’s inauguration (January 21, 2017), re-energizing the women’s movement.
Oct 27, 2009 · The civil rights movement was a struggle for justice and equality for African Americans that took place mainly in the 1950s and 1960s. Among its leaders were Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm...
Find out more about the key events that shaped the American civil rights movement of the 1950s and ’60s, such as the Montgomery Bus Boycott, the March on Washington, and the founding of the Black Panther Party.
Moving into the 21st century, America finds itself at the beginning of a new era defined by its own set of civil rights struggles. A shifting landscape requires the civil rights movements of the 21st century to shift in line with modern realities.
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