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)

1. Black power movement
2. Black power
3. Black pride
4. Black Arts Movement
5. Black Lives Matter
6. Timeline of the civil rights movement
7. Red Power movement
8. Black Consciousness Movement
9. Civil rights movement
10. Black nationalism
11. Chicano Movement
12. Civil rights movements
13. Zamasu
14. Timeline of the Russian invasion of Ukraine (1 April 2024 – present)
15. Timeline of the 19th century
16. Early timeline of Nazism
17. Kathleen Cleaver
18. Black Catholic Movement
19. Timeline of the 21st century
20. Black is beautiful