Timeline of the Black Power movement

This is a timeline of the Black Power movement.

Before 1966

• Congress of Racial Equality (1942)
• COINTELPRO (1956)
• Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (1960)
• Assassination of Patrice Lumumba (1961)
• 1961 United Nations floor protest
• The Negro Digest (1961)
• Liberator (1961)
• Group on Advanced Leadership (1961)
• Umbra (1963)
• Revolutionary Action Movement (1962)
• Umbra (1963)
• Soulbook (1964)
• Black Arts Movement (1965)
• Watts riots (1965)
• Assassination of Malcolm X (1965)
• The Autobiography of Malcolm X (1965)
• Black Dialogue (1965)
• US Organization (1965)

1966

• Black Panther Party
• Black Guerrilla Family
• Journal of Black Poetry
• Kwanzaa

1967

• Operation CHAOS
• Long hot summer of 1967
• Detroit riot of 1967
• Cambridge riot of 1967
• Cairo riot
• Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?

1968

• Memphis sanitation strike
• 1968 Olympics Black Power salute
• Republic of New Afrika
• Death of Bobby Hutton
• Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968
• Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement
• Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Howard University student protest
• King assassination riots
  • Baltimore
  • Wilmington
  • Louisville
  • Kansas City, Missouri
  • Pittsburgh
  • Chicago
  • Washington, D.C.
• Nommo

1969

• Murder of Fred Hampton
• Murder of Mark Clark
• League of Revolutionary Black Workers
• Institute of the Black World
• Sullivan v. Little Hunting Park, Inc.
• Weather Underground
• Gaston County v. United States
• Executive Order 11478
• Alexander v. Holmes County Board of Education
• 1969 York race riot
• Allen v. State Board of Election
• Revised Philadelphia Plan
• Wells v. Rockefeller
• National Conference of Black Political Scientists
• Soul City, North Carolina

1970

• Joint Center for Political Studies
• Black Liberation Army
• Black Creation
• Revolutionary People's Constitutional Convention
• Marin County courthouse incident
• Killing of Henry Marrow
• Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 1970
• Jackson State killings
• Voting Rights Act Amendments of 1970
• Carter v. West Feliciana School Board
• Institute for Southern Studies

1971

• Congressional Black Caucus
• War on drugs
• Griggs v. Duke Power Co.
• Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education
• Attica Prison riot
• Operation PUSH

1972

• National Black Political Convention
• Coalition of Black Trade Unionists
• Gary Agenda
• African Liberation Day
• Gates v. Collier
• 1972 Olympics Black Power salute
• MOVE

1973

• National Black Feminist Organization
• Revolutionary Suicide
• Drug Enforcement Administration
• Georgia v. United States
• District of Columbia Home Rule Act
• Keyes v. School District No. 1, Denver
• White v. Regester
• Equal Employment Opportunity Act of 1972

1974

• The National Conference of Black Mayors
• Gates v. Collier
• Boston busing desegregation
• Equal Educational Opportunities Act of 1974
• Equal Credit Opportunity Act
• Milliken v. Bradley
• Maynard Jackson

1975

• George Jackson Brigade
• Home Mortgage Disclosure Act
• Livernois–Fenkell riot
• Voting Rights Act Amendments of 1975

See also

• Garveyism
• Race (human classification)
• White supremacy
• Jim Crow
• White Panther Party (1968)