The End Of The Movement?

6/12/63: NAACP Activist Medgar Evers Assassinated in Mississippi

• His killer is not convicted until 1994.

9/15/63: 4 Little Girls Murdered In Birmingham Church Bombing

• The bomber was acquitted and went free.• He was retried and finally convicted in 1977.

6/21/64: 3 Civil Rights Workers Ambushed And Murdered By KKK

• The state of Mississippi refuses to prosecute the killers.

• In 2004, 3 Stevenson students complete a History Fair project that leads to the conviction of one of the murderers.

2/21/65: Malcolm X Assassinated

8/11/65: Race Riots In Watts

1/10/66: NAACP Voting Rights Activist Vernon Dahmer Murdered By KKK

• The KKK Imperial Wizard who ordered the killing is not convicted until 1998.

6/16/66: Stokely Carmichael First Uses Phrase “Black Power”

10/15/66: Black Panther Party Formed

6/67: SNCC Changes Its Name To “Student

National Coordinating Committee”

4/4/68: Martin Luther King Jr. Assassinated In Memphis

Race Riots In Chicago, Detroit, Los Angeles, Newark And Other Cities

6/5/68: Robert Kennedy Assassinated In Los Angeles

1970s: Forced Busing Is Rejected In The North

Did The Movement Win?

Did it end?