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1940-1960
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Hattie McDaniel wins Oscar
Hattie McDaniel won an Oscar for the film Gone With The Wind. -
Dr.Charles Drew becomes first African American surgeon
Drew worked to equalize medical care and make health care affordable and accessible to everyone, Blacks and Whites. He also paved the way for blood transfusion and blood sotrage. -
Congress of Racial Equality sendsmen on the Journey of Reconcilliation
Congress of Racial Equality sends 16 men on the Journey of Reconciliation. The Journey of Reconciliation was a form of non-violent direct action to challenge segregation laws on public buses in the Southern United States. The 16 men were half white and half black. -
Brown vs. Board of Education- US Supreme Court outlaws racial segregation in schools
Brown vs. Board of Education ended legal segregation in public schools. Thurgood Marshall was the first African American on the Supreme Court and he worked on the B vs. BOE case. Linda Brown was the first African American child to go to a white school and she started the whole B vs. BOE case. -
Claudette Colvin fights segregation bus laws
Claudette Colvin was the first person (prior to Rosa Parks) to resist the segregated bus laws in Alabama. At 15, Colvin refused to give up her seat for a white passenger. Colvin, along with three other women testified in court against the Alabama state laws. The case made it to the Supreme Court. Although Colvin didn't directly win her case, segregated buses were declared unconstitutional later in the year. -
Four students start sit-ins in Greensboro, NC
Four college students attending the North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College began a sit-in at a segregated lunch counter at the F. W. Woolworth Co. department store in Greenboro, NC. These nonviolent protests started a chain reaction of other sit ins throughout the country. Sit ins became a prime form of protest during the civil rights movement.
