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-- Time Line of Civil Rights Events (1954 - 1965) --
1954
- May 17, Brown Vs. Board of Education, US Supreme Court decision bans 'separate but equal' in schools
- July 11, First White Citizens Council-Mississippi
1955
- August 28, Emmett Till killed in Mississippi
1955-1956
1956
- February 3, Autherine Lucy admitted to the University of Alabama
- July, Phil Noble begins pastorate of First Presbyterian Church, Anniston
- Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas was integrated
1960
- John F. Kennedy elected President
1961
- May 14, Mother's Day, Freedom Riders bus burned in Anniston
1961-1962
- Albany, Georgia, The Albany Movement led by Dr. King
1962
- Rev's Reynolds and McClain visit Phil Noble early in the year
- Black and white Ministerial Associations begin meeting together and merge into one organization.
- September, James Meredith enrolled at Ole Miss
- November, George Wallace elected Governor
- Miller Sproull elected as Finance Chairman of City Commission and takes office in October.
1963
- May 12, Mother's Day, shooting into two houses of black people and into the St. John's Methodist Church in South Anniston
- April and May, Birmingham riots
- May 16, Appointment of Anniston Biracial Human Relations Council
- June 11, George Wallace's stand in the Schoolhouse door.
- September 15, Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham bombed
- September 15, Rev. Reynolds and McClain attacked by mob as they went to enroll in the Library in accordance with plans made by the Human Relations Council and the Library Board.
- September 16, Library integrated
- Nov. 22, President Kennedy assassinated
1964
- Kenneth Adams and Phil Noble talk together early in the year
- Completion of new First Presbyterian Church new building
- June 21, Goodman, Schwerner, Chaney killed in Mississippi
- September 13, Anniston Manifesto published in the Anniston Star
1965
- July 15, J.B. Stoner and Connie Lynch speak to a KKK rally. Willie Brewster shot and killed.
- August 27, Hubert Damon Strange indicted for murder. Strange tried by an all white jury and convicted. First conviction of a white man for killing a black person during the civil rights era.
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