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The history of African Americans
this is the end of most of the slavery in the united staes and its colenys. -
segrigation
the end of segrigation of the millitary alowing black and whites two fight as brothers and not cusins. -
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the fight for rights
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african americans leave south
Poor conditions in the South led half of the African Americans in the region to migrate to Northern cities during the period. -
Du bois
Du Bois created the national association for the advanced of colored people other wise known as N.A.A.C.P. -
The rise of jazz music
In the 1920s, the community of blacks living in the New York City region of Harlem with energy onto the American cultural scene. The rise of jazz music contributed immeasurably to this change of attitude, as did -
Trumans orders
In 1948, President Harry Truman ordered the U.S. military desegregated, a move that critics were convinced would bring about disorganization and disaster in the armed forces. However, desegregation of the military proceeded smoothly and quickly, prompting African Americans to increase their efforts to desegregate the rest of American society as well. -
executive order 9981
Truman signes executive order 9981 will make it equale for all colered people in the united states. -
Rosa Parks
NAACP member Rosa parks refused two give up her seat at the front of the "colored section" of a bus to a white pasanger. -
school house segregation
formal a white high school learns that intergration is esear said then done. nine black student were not alowed two enter the front gate. -
SNCC
The SNCC is found at the shawn university providing a young black people with a place in the civel rights movement. -
James Meredith
James Meredith becomes the first black student to enroll at the university of Mississipe. Violence and riots surrounding the incident causes president Kenedy to send 5,000 federal troops. -
Rights act
The movement enjoyed brief victories with the passage of the Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act , which promised federal assistance to ensure that blacks could exercise their right to vote nearly 100 years after the passage of the Fifteenth Amendment. The movement itself, however, continued to fragment. -
million man march
By the late 20th century, some African American leaders had focused their energy not so much on the failure of the government to redress blacks' needs as on the failure of the African American community and the institution of the African American family to support blacks in U.S. Society.
Such popular demonstrations as the 1995 Million Man March, led by Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, indicated possible resurgence of a unified civil rights movement, but the fledgling movement fizzled bef -
rasiste cops
In a similar vein, the issue of racial profiling, whereby police officers routinely pull over black drivers simply because of their race, -
problem
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