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NAACP
Febuary 12,1909
W.E.B. Du Bois, Ida B. Wells, Mary White Ovington, William English Walling, Lillian Wald, Archibald Grimké, Henry Moskowitz and, Oswald Garrison Villard -
LITTLE ROCK CENTRAL H.S. AR
1927
Little Rock Central High School is an accredited comprehensive public high school in Little Rock, Arkansas, United States. The school was the site of forced desegregation in 1957 after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that segregation of public schools was unconstitutional three years earlier. -
EXECUTIVE ORDER 8802 (FDR)
June 25,1941
Signed by Franklin D. Roosevelt to prohibit ethnic or racial discrimination in the nation's defense industry. -
UNIVERSAL NEGRO IMPROVEMENT ASSOC.
July 15, 1941, Marcus Gravey. -
EMMIT TILL
July 25, 1941
14-year-old African American who was lynched in Mississippi in 1955, after being accused of offending a white woman in her family's grocery store. -
CONGRESS OF RACIAL EQUALITY (CORE)
1942
The Congress of Racial Equality is an African-American civil rights organization in the United States that played a pivotal role for African Americans in the Civil Rights Movement. -
EXECUTIVE ORDER 9981 (HST)
July 26, 1948
Issued by President Harry S. Truman it abolished racial segregation in the U.S. military. -
KENNEDY-NIXON DEBATES
1960
John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon squared off in the first televised presidential debates in American history. -
ASSASSINATION OF JFK
November 22, 1963
An American politician who served as the 35th president of the United States from January 1961 until his assassination in November 1963. -
SELMA VOTING RIGHTS MARCH
March 7,1965 - March 27, 1965
The Selma to Montgomery marches were three protest marches, held in 1965, along the 54-mile highway from Selma, Alabama to the state capital of Montgomery. -
ASSASSINATION OF MLK
April 4, 1968
Martin Luther King Jr. was an American Christian minister and activist who became the most visible spokesperson and leader in the Civil Rights Movement from 1955 until his assassination in
