The fight for civil rights continues

1963 Aug. 28--More than 250,000 persons participated in the March on Washington, the largest civil rights demonstration to date.

September 15--Four Black girls are killed in e bombing at Birmingham's Sixteenth Street Baptist Church.

1964 July 2--Civil Rights Bill, with public accommodation and fair employment sections, is signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson.

1964 Aug. 4--Bodies of murdered civil rights workers James Chaney, 21, Andrew Goodman, 20, and Michael Schwerner, 24, were discovered near Philadelphia, Miss.

1965 Feb. 21--Malcolm X was assassinated in New York City,

1965 March 25--The 54-mile Selmato-Montgomery march ended with rally of some 50,000 at Alabama Capitol.

1965--Pres. Johnson signs Voting Rights Bill, which authorized suspension of literacy tests and sends federal examiners into the South.

1965 Aug. 11--Insurrection in the Watts section of Los Angeles rages for six days. The toll: 34 killed, 1,302 injured, 4,000 arrested, $35 million in property damage. Other racial disturbances swept the country.

1966 Jan. 18--Robert Weaver is sworn in as secretary of Housing and Urban Development, first Black member of a presidential cabinet.

1966 Nov. 8--Edward W. Brooke (R-Mass.) elected to U.S. Senate and became the first Black senator since Reconstruction era.

1967 June 13--Thurgood Marshall is named to the Supreme Court.

1967 Nov. 7--Carl Stokes and Richard Hatcher become the first Blacks elected as mayors of major U.S. cities.

1968 April 4--Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated by White sniper in Memphis, Tenn. The assassination set off a national crisis with rioting in more than 100 cities.

1968 Nov. 5--A record number (9) of Black congressmen and the first Black woman were elected.

1969 Dec. 4--Two Black Panther leaders--Fred Hampton and Mark Clark--were killed in Chicago in predawn Chicago police raid.

1971 Dec. 18--People United To Serve Humanity (PUSH) was founded by the Rev. Jesse Jackson.

1972--Rep. Shirley Chisholm was the first Black woman nominated for president of the United States.

1975 Sept. 2--Joseph W. Hatchett of Florida sworn in as first Black Supreme Court justice in the South in the 20th century.

1976 Dec. 16--Rep. Andrew Young of Georgia named ambassador and chief delegate to the United Nations.

1976 Dec. 21--Patricia R. Harris named secretary of housing and urban development by President-elect Carter.

1978 June 28--U.S. Supreme Court endorsed the concept of "reverse discrimination," ordering the Univ. of California Medical School at Davis to admit Allan P. Bakke, who claimed he was denied admission because of affirmative action programs.

1983--The Rev. Jesse Jackson declared his candidacy for president of the United States.

1986 Jan. 20--Millions in United States celebrated the first Martin Luther King Jr. national holiday.

1987 June--Dr. Mae C. Jemison, a physician, was named the first Black woman astronaut.

1989 Feb. 10--Ronald H. (Ron) Brown elected chairman of the Democratic Party and became the first Black to head a major national political party.