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harry truman
President Harry Truman issues Executive Order 9981 to end segregation in the Armed Services. there is no more segregation in some places -
Less school segregation
The Supreme Court ended racial segregation in public schools. Many schools were still segregated. Less school segregation is giving blacks more rights. -
Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery, Alabama bus that prompts a year-long Montgomery bus boycott. she help many blacks stand up for themselves -
meeting in Atlanta
Sixty black pastors and civil rights leaders meet in Atlanta to coordinate protests against racial discrimination and segregation
this help to get blacks rights -
integrating blacks into white schools
Nine black students are blocked from integrating into a High School in Little Rock Arkansas they had to be escorted by federal troops. This is important because it helped racial integration. -
Civil Rights Act of 1957
Eisenhower signs the Civil Rights Act of 1957 into law to help protect voter rights. This protected peoples rights to vote from anthers right to vote -
SIT-IN
Four college students in refuse to leave a Woolworth’s (all white) lunch counter without being served. That later led to other sit- ins -
MLK
250,000 people come to The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Martin Luther King gives the closing speech in front of the Lincoln Memorial and states, “I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed.
This is important because it motivated people to believe him. -
bomb
A bomb at 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama kills four young girls and injures several other people. this fueled many protests -
civil rights act
President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
It prevented employment discrimination like race, color, sex, and religion. -
Malcolm X
Black religious leader Malcolm X is assassinated during a rally by members of the Nation of Islam. -
Montgomery March
In the Selma to Montgomery March, around 600 civil rights marchers walk to Selma, Alabama to Montgomery the state’s capital they protested black voter suppression. Local police block and brutally attack them. this made them march 2 more times to Montgomery -
President Johnson
President Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act of 1965. It prevented the use of literacy tests as a voting requirement. -
Martin Luther King, Jr. is assassinated
Martin Luther King, Jr. is assassinated. this helped to have more people join the civil right movement -
1968
President Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1968, also known as the Fair Housing Act. I gave equal housing opportunity regardless of race, religion or national origin.
