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 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)