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Truman Desegregates Armed Services
Executive Order 9981 -
Brown v Board of Education
Unanimous Decision by Warren Court
"Separate is never equal"
"All deliberate Speed" -
Emmet Till's Murder's acquitted by all white jury in Mississippi
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Montgomery Bus Boycott
Supreme Court rules buses desegregated -
SCLC established to organize civil rights movement
MLK is the first president
Nonviolence and civil disobediance -
Little Rock 9 integrate Central High School
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SNCC--organization of young blacks in civil rights movement
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James Meredith Integrates U of Mississippi
JFK Sends 5,000 troops to protect Meredith -
Letter from Brimingham Jail
Individuals have a moral duty to disobey unjust laws. -
Birmingham Sheriff Bull Connor
Dogs and firehoses attack young demonstratorsUses dogs and firehoses on teenaged demonstrators -
Medgar Evers, NAACP field secy, murdered in Mississippi
His murderer Bryan De La Beckwith was not convicted until 1993 -
March on Washington
I Have A Dream--MLK -
4 Black Girls killed by a bomb at 16th St, Baptist Church
Birmingham, Alabama -
24th Amendment abolished Poll Tax
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LBJ signs Civil Rights Act of 1964
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Freedom Summer--SNCC, CORE Register Voters
3 Civil Rights workers murdered in Mississippi -
Malcolm X assasinated
black nationalist and Muslim -
Selma Marchers attacked on the Edmund Pettis Bridge
support of Voting Rights Act -
Voting Rights Act passed
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Watts Riots
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Black Panthers founded
Huey Newton and Bobby Seale -
"Black Power"
Stokley Carmichael, SNCC radicalized -
Loving v Virginia
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Race Riots, Newark and Detroit
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MLK Assassinated
James Earl Ray -
Civil Rights Act of 1968
prohibit discrimination in the sale, rental, financing of housing -
AFFIRMATIVE ACTION-Executive Order 11246
Requires government contractors "to take affirmative action" in hiring and employment
