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Executive Order 8802
was signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on July 25, 1941, to prohibit related to a group of people with the same race, culture, religion or treating people unfairly based on their skin color in the nation's defense industry. It also set up the Fair Employment Practice Committee.
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Jackie Robinson’s MLB Debut
Jackie Robinson was the first African American to play Major League baseball outside of a separated because of race, religion,black league, in 1947. He became a living important thing that is done or completed for racial state where all things are equal and changed the sport of baseball forever.
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Executive Order 9981
This was an executive order issued on July 26, 1948, by President Harry S. Truman. It permanently stopped unfair treatment based on skin color, age, "on the basis of race, color, religion or national origin" in the United States Armed Forces. The executive order eventually led to the end of separating things/separating people by race, religion, in the services.
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Brown v. Board of Education Court Case is Decided
Supreme Court decision that changed from yes to no or from guilty to not guilty the Plessy vs. Ferguson decision 1896; led by Chief Justice Earl Warren, the Court ruled that "separate but equal" schools for blacks were basically and mostly unequal and so going against something in the Constitution. The decision energized the Civil Rights Movement in the 1950s and 1960s.
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Lynching of Emmett Till
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Bus Boycott in Montgomery Begins
The Montgomery Bus Boycott was one of the major events in the Civil Rights Movement in the United States. It signaled that a peaceful protest could result in the changing of laws to protect the equal rights of all people regardless of race.
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Creation of the SCLC
The Southern Christian Leadership Conference's (SCLC) main aim was to advance the cause ofcivil rights in America but in a non-violent manner. From its beginning in 1957, its president was Martin Luther King - a post he held until his murder in 1968.
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Little Rock Nine First Escorted to School
The impact that the little rock nine have on the civil rights is that the little rock nine was nine black students enrolled at formerly all-white Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, in September 1957 testing a landmark 1954 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that declared segregation in public schools unconstitutional.
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Greensboro sit-ins begin
Sit-ins weren't a new the right to vote, to free speech, to fair and equal treatment, way of doing things. But they in 1960 they helped energize the the right to vote, to free speech, to fair and equal treatment movent.In the early 1940s, the Congress of Racial state where all things are equal successfully used sit-ins to open to all people public facilities, in Chicago mostly.
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Freedom Riders are attacked in Anniston, Alabama
A group of Freedom Riders traveling by bus from Washington, D.C., to New Orleans were met by a white mob in Anniston, Alabama. The mob attacked the bus with baseball bats and iron pipes. They also deeply cut the tires.The Freedom Rides, and the violent reactions they provoked, bolstered the credibility of the American Civil Rights Movement.
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James Meredith Enrolls at Ole Miss
In 1962, he became the first African-American student admitted to the segregated University of Mississippi, after the intervention of the federal government, an event that was a flash point in the Civil Rights Movement. ... He did not want major civil rights organizations involved. -
University of Alabama is Integrated
When African American students attempted to desegregate the University of Alabama in June 1963, Alabama's new governor, flanked by state troopers, literally blocked the door of the enrollment office. https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/university-of-alabama-desegregated -
“I Have A Dream” Speech is Delivered
MLK gave his 17 minute "I Have A Dream" speech in Washington D.C. He called for civil and economic rights and an end to racism in the United States.
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16th Street Baptist Church bombing
The bombing was an act of white "supremacist". It occurred in Birmingham, Alabama, on Sunday, September 15, 1963. Four members of the KKK had it all planned out, they had dynamite sticks and all. The church was the target of the racially motivated bombing that killed four young girls in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement.
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Twenty-Fourth Amendment to the Constitution Ratified
This amendment was passed to address one particular injustice that prevented numerous citizens from voting—the poll tax, that is, a state fee on voting.
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Signing of the Civil Rights Act
It prohibited discrimination in public places, provided for the integration of schools and other public facilities, and made employment discrimination illegal. This document was the most sweeping civil rights legislation since Reconstruction.
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March on Selma Begins
It was called a demonstration. When state troopers met the demonstrators at the edge of the city by the Edmund Pettus Bridge, that day became known as "Bloody Sunday."President Lyndon Johnson addressed a joint session of Congress, calling for federal voting rights legislation to protect African Americans from barriers that prevented them from voting.
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Signing of the Voting Rights Act
It aimed to overcome legal barriers at the state and local levels that prevented African Americans from exercising their right to vote as guaranteed under the 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
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Loving v. Virginia Court Case is Decided
The Supreme Court announced its ruling in Loving v. Virginia on June 12, 1967. In an every single person agrees decision, the judges found that Virginia's including two human races marriage law violated the 14th Change to the Constitution.
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Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
MLK was an American civil rights leader. He is known for his "I have a dream" speech. He had received many death threats but sadly MLK was shot dead on a motel balcony. He was 39 when he died. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2018/01/15/kings-assassination-shaped-americas-identity-50-years-ago-and-continues-to-shape-it-today/?utm_term=.b3759038d4eb
