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African-American history

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    Harlem Renaissance

  • Jackie Robinson becomes the first African-American baseball player

  • Executive Order 9066

    This law integrated the United States' Armed Forces and was enacted by president Harry Truman.
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    Civil Rights Movement

  • Supreme Court decision in Brown v Board of Education

    segregation in schools is unconstitutional

  • Murder of Emmitt Till

    Emmitt Till was murdered by two men following reportedly flirting with a white woman cashier. The two white men were acquitted by an all-white jury.

  • Montgomery Bus Boycott

    This is started by Rosa Parks on December 21st, 1955 when she refuses to give up her seat to a white man.

  • The Southern Christian Leadership Conference is founded

    MLK creates this organization to promote nonviolent protests.

  • The Little Rock Nine

    This occurs in the South, when 9 African-Americans are denied access to a public school of whites when the governor blocks the entrance. The president sends federal troops to allow them into the school.

  • The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee is founded

    This gave a larger role to younger African-Americans in the Civil Rights Movement
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    Freedom Riders

    These were African-Americans that performed many sit-ins and bus boycotts in the South.

  • James Meredith is the first African-American to attend the University of Mississippi

  • March on Washington

    Martin Luther King Jr led 200,000 Americans on a march to the nation's capital in which he demanded equal rights. When they arrived, MLK delivered his famous "I have a Dream" speech.

  • Civil Rights Act

    This law outlawed discrimination based on race, gender, nation of origin, religion, or color. This law was weakly enforced initially.

  • Assassination of Malcom X

  • Voting Rights Act

    Established the principle that you cannot discriminate against one's right to vote based on the color of one's skin

  • Black Panther Party is created

  • Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.