National timeline since 1865
1890
1909
1920
1925
1925
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Harvard Dormitory Crisis
1929
1929
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Charles Hamilton Houston joints Howard Law Faculty.
1940
1940-1941
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NYU students protest agreements between schools that purposely left out star athletes of color in interscholastic sports competitions.
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1942
1954
1957
1960
1961
1962
1963
1963
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Bombings in Birmingham, MOWM.
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1964
Conditions Before the Freedom Summer
Black Mississippians were not allowed to vote or run for public office in the state’s political system. There were no delegates within the all-white Democratic Party which could politically represent the large and outspoken Black community on a state or national level, furthermore, the segregated schooling systems, housing, public works, as well as job opportunities worked to block Black Mississippians from claiming political and economic power.
March 30, 1964
Efforts to integrate Mississippi's political system were orchestrated by Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), and volunteers--mostly young college students from all over the country--were gathered to run the “Mississippi Summer Project”. These efforts were immediately responded to by Mississippi legislators by the furthering of the restrictive and oppressive legislation; such as banning leaflets and expanding the police force.
April 26, 1964
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The Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party is established and marked the beginning of the initiatives that encouraged mass voter registration efforts.
June 29, 1964
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500 (later up to 1,500) volunteers set up in 25 locations all over the state, initiating the Freedom Summer.
July 2, 1964
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Freedom School open to educate the public on politics and the political process.
August 4, 1964
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Following hundreds of harassments, the bodies of organizers and activists James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner were found. These three young men were released by the police to the Ku Klux Klan who tortured and killed them. These deaths are known as the Freedom Summer murders.
August 6, 1964
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Delegates are elected to represent the MFDP in the Democratic National Convention (DNC) in hopes to remove the control of the Mississippi Democratic Party.
1965
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Of the 17,000 Black residents that registered to vote in the summer, only 1,600 applications were accepted by the Mississippi registrars. Organised calls for change in the Freedom Summer of 1964 pushed forward the passing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
1965
End Of 1966
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More than half of African-Americans were registered to vote in the U.S’ southern states.
1966
1967
1967
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H. Rap Brown replaces Stokely Carmichael as the head of SNCC, embraces violence as a condition of liberation, and renames the organization the Student National Coordinating Committee.
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1968
February 8, 1968
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The Orangeburg Massacre: two South Carolina State students and one local high school student are killed during protests aimed at the desegregation of the All-Star Bowling Lane.
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February 8, 1968
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The Orangeburg Massacre: two South Carolina State students and one local high school student are killed during protests aimed at the desegregation of the All-Star Bowling Lane.
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February 8, 1968
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The Orangeburg Massacre: two South Carolina State students and one local high school student are killed during protests aimed at the desegregation of the All-Star Bowling Lane.
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October 14, 1968
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The black students at UC Santa Barbra lock themselves inside a main building to demand institutionalized solutions to racism on campus.
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October 14, 1968
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The black students at UC Santa Barbra lock themselves inside a main building to demand institutionalized solutions to racism on campus.
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October 14, 1968
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The black students at UC Santa Barbra lock themselves inside a main building to demand institutionalized solutions to racism on campus.
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1969
1969
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SNCC changes its name from the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee to the Student National Coordinating Committee
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1969
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SNCC changes its name from the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee to the Student National Coordinating Committee
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1969
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SNCC changes its name from the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee to the Student National Coordinating Committee
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Fall, 1969
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34 Students takeover the main building at Vassar to argue for a Africana Studies department.
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1970
1970s
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Kent State
1970s-1990s
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Anti-apartide Prostests.
1992
1992
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La Riots
2011
2011
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"One Mizzou" initiative begun by MU chancellor Brandy Denton.
2012
2012
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Trayvon Martin
June 1, 2012
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UCLA students occupy the admissions office, attempting to force the reconsideration of applicants of color and the further diversify the incoming cohort.
2013
2015
November 6, 2013
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UCLA students stage an in-class sit-in to protest the mistreatment of student of color
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November 14, 2013
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UCLA students release a video protesting the size of the incoming black student cohort and asking the university for more robust Affirmative Action measures.
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Fall , 2015
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Nationwide student protests across campuses result in dozens of lists of demands.
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2016
2017
January 14, 2016
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President of Ithaca College resigns after students protest his "insufficient response to racist incidents on campus" through die-ins and campus rallies.
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January 19, 2016
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Black students protest the preventable shooting of Sam Dubois by university police.
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September, 2016
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Students in North Carolina stage die-ins and black-outs after shooting of Keith Lamont Scott.
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November 18, 2016
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National high school walkout to protest incoming Trump administration.
2017
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University of California, Berkley has "free speech" protests escalating to the cancelation of Milo Yiannopoulos scheduled talk. Yiannopoulos's talks were canceled after similar protests in University of Washington and UC Davis.
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2018
2019
April 26, 2017
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High school students in Kansas hold a rally to support the black students who received death threats.
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May, 2017
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Students at UC Santa Cruz hold a three day protest to demonstrate the way the university ignored the needs of black students to have the option for guaranteed housing in the "Rosa Parks African American Themed House"
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May, 2017
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Black students at Evergreen Sate College ​protest campus police attacks on black students, especially black trans students.
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July 13, 2017
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Students at UC Merced and UC Santa Barbara protest the unjust arrest of a black college student and four friends.
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November 2018
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Williams College adopts a "Chicago statement" encouraging "free speech" above all other obligations to debate. Student protests follow.
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November 2018
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Ongoing UNC protests over "Silent Sam"-- a confederate statue on campus-- heighten with the arrest of protester Maya Little.
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January 2019
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Yale professors Kai Green and Kimberly Love cancel their classes leading into the spring semester going on medical leave because, as they phrased it, the college to not a “safe place” for them.
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February 2019
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More than 200 students and faculty participate in a “March for the Damned” to support Yale professors Green and Love.
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April 2019
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Protests ensue after the "Nazi TA" is exposed at University of Alabama, Birmingham.
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April 18, 2019
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Two unarmed people of color are shot by Yale campus police and student protests erupt in response.
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