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 * Civil Rights Timeline** - Black Power


 * 1951 - Black Muslims formed by Elijah Muhammad.
 * 1952 - Reformed criminal and drug addickt Malcolm Little is released from Prison, Joins the Black Muslims and takes the name Malcolm X.
 * March 1964 - Malcolm X left the Black Muslims and created his own organization.
 * June 1964 - Three civil rights workers disappered from Mississippi and were later found beaten and shot.
 * February 1965 - Malcolm X was shot and killed.
 * 1966 - Two cicl rights organizations, SNCC and CORE, embraced Black Nationalism.
 * July 1966 - James Meredith was shot while marching for voting rights in Mississippi.
 * October 1966 - The Black Panthers were formed in Oakland, California
 * August 11, 1965 - Riots started in Watts, Los Angeles after a 21 year old was arrested for drunk driving.
 * Summer 1967 - Riots occured in 127 cities. Numerous people were killed, injured or arrested.
 * April 4, 1968 - Martin Luther King, Jr. was shot and killed in Memphis, Tennessee. Riots started in 168 citites. More people dead, injured or arrested.