Campfire Games is devoted to presenting the gruesome and glorious elements of the period, while maintaining the highest level of historical accuracy and realism as is possible with the wonders of CRYENGINE. National Archives.War of Rights is a multiplayer game set during the perilous days of the American Civil War, in the Maryland Campaign of September, 1862. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Selma to Montgomery March: National Historic Trail and All-American Road. Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Research and Education Institute Stanford.
“I Have a Dream,” Address Delivered at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. History, Art & Archives United States House of Representatives. Swarthmore College Global Nonviolent Action Database. Greensboro, NC, Students Sit-In for US Civil Rights, 1960. Alabama Department of Archives and History. Truman Presidential Library & Museum.Ĭivil Rights Act of 1957. How the Black Power Movement Influenced the Civil Rights MovementĮxecutive Order 9981. The ‘Silent’ Protest That Kick-Started the Civil Rights Movement Six Unsung Heroines of the Civil Rights Movement Read more about the civil rights movement:ĭid World War II Launch the Civil Rights Movement? James Earl Ray is convicted of the murder in 1969.Īpril 11, 1968: President Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1968, also known as the Fair Housing Act, providing equal housing opportunity regardless of race, religion or national origin. is assassinated on the balcony of his hotel room in Memphis, Tennessee. It also allowed federal examiners to review voter qualifications and federal observers to monitor polling places.Īpril 4, 1968: Martin Luther King, Jr. After successfully fighting in court for their right to march, Martin Luther King and other civil rights leaders lead two more marches and finally reach Montgomery on March 25.Īugust 6, 1965: President Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to prevent the use of literacy tests as a voting requirement. Local police block and brutally attack them. In the Selma to Montgomery March, around 600 civil rights marchers walk to Selma, Alabama to Montgomery-the state’s capital-in protest of Black voter suppression. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) to help prevent workplace discrimination.įebruary 21, 1965: Black religious leader Malcolm X is assassinated during a rally by members of the Nation of Islam.
Title VII of the Act establishes the U.S. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964 into law, preventing employment discrimination due to race, color, sex, religion or national origin. September 15, 1963: A bomb at 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama kills four young girls and injures several other people prior to Sunday services. Martin Luther King gives his “I Have A Dream” speech as the closing address in front of the Lincoln Memorial, stating, “I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal.’” The Freedom Rides were marked by horrific violence from white protestors, they drew international attention to their cause.Īugust 28, 1963: Approximately 250,000 people take part in The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Her actions inspired Norman Rockwell’s painting The Problem We All Live With (1964).ġ961: Throughout 1961, Black and white activists, known as freedom riders, took bus trips through the American South to protest segregated bus terminals and attempted to use “whites-only” restrooms and lunch counters. November 14, 1960: Six-year-old Ruby Bridges is escorted by four armed federal marshals as she becomes the first student to integrate William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans. The Greensboro Sit-In, as it came to be called, sparks similar “sit-ins” throughout the city and in other states. The Greensboro Four-Ezell Blair Jr., David Richmond, Franklin McCain and Joseph McNeil-were inspired by the nonviolent protest of Gandhi. The law allows federal prosecution of those who suppress another’s right to vote.įebruary 1, 1960: Four African American college students in Greensboro, North Carolina refuse to leave a Woolworth’s “whites only” lunch counter without being served.
September 9, 1957: Eisenhower signs the Civil Rights Act of 1957 into law to help protect voter rights.