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