Timeline:
January: President Lyndon Baines Johnson declares the "War on Poverty"February: The House of Representatives passes the Civil Rights Act that was first put into
Congress in 1963.
March: Malcom X, a black civil rights leader, broke his ties with Islam leader, Elijah Mohammad. He makes it known that he believes in the separation of races and he will form a Black Nationalist Party.
April: Malcom X announces that racial barriers can be overcome with the help of the Islam religion.
May: Supreme Court deems unconstitutional the closing of schools solely for the intent of avoiding desegregation.
June: The Senate votes and passes the Civil Rights Act.
JUNE 21, 1964: Three, young civil rights workers are murdered in Mississippi by law enforcement officers.
July: President Lyndon Baines Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act and it is put into law. Several days of riots begin in Harlem, NY where blacks are "fighting back" against police brutality.
August: More riots erupt in Paterson and Elizabeth, New Jersey. Many African-Americans are at unrest because of the known police brutality.
September: The Oakland Tribune is picketed by a group of college-age, civil rights workers. The "Free Speech Movement" is born.
October: Jack Weinberg, a civil rights worker, is picked up by a University of California-Berkeley campus police officer. A crowd a 3,000 forms and Mario Savio, another civil rights activist, jumps on the police car and gives a speech. Presidential candidate, Barry Goldwater, makes a stance on civil rights by saying, "forced integration is just as wrong as forced segregation."
November: Martin Luther King Jr. accused the FBI of not acting upon the complaints filed by many black Americans. J. Edgar Hoover describes him as "the most notorious liar in the country."
December: "Free Speech Movement" at UC-Berkeley becomes an issue, and 500+ students have a sit-in protest. With the lack of cooperation to leave, police resort to violence. The university later rules that they need to follow the Supreme Court's stance on free speech.
October: Jack Weinberg, a civil rights worker, is picked up by a University of California-Berkeley campus police officer. A crowd a 3,000 forms and Mario Savio, another civil rights activist, jumps on the police car and gives a speech. Presidential candidate, Barry Goldwater, makes a stance on civil rights by saying, "forced integration is just as wrong as forced segregation."
November: Martin Luther King Jr. accused the FBI of not acting upon the complaints filed by many black Americans. J. Edgar Hoover describes him as "the most notorious liar in the country."
December: "Free Speech Movement" at UC-Berkeley becomes an issue, and 500+ students have a sit-in protest. With the lack of cooperation to leave, police resort to violence. The university later rules that they need to follow the Supreme Court's stance on free speech.
