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Hattie McDaniel wins Academy Award
Hattie Mc DAniel was the first african american to ever win an Aceademy Award, and she did so as the supportiung actress in the movie Into the Wind, character Mammie. This character was shaping stereotypical perceptions of African American women for decades. Both the film and the novel perpetuate racist 19th century views of black people. -
Dr. Charles Drew becomes first African American Surgeon
Charles R. Drew, after having had a great highschool and coolege carrer thart resulted in his mastery of Surgery degree from McGill University in Montreal Canada. this moment marked the first African AMerican to become a Surgeon. -
CORE (Congress of Racial Equality) sends 16 men on a trip of reconciliation
In April of 1947 CORE sent eight white and eight black men into the upper South to test a Supreme Court ruling that declared segregation in interstate travel unconstitutional. CORE gained national attention for this Journey of Reconciliation when four of the riders were arrested in Chapel Hill, North Carolina and three, including Bayard Rustin, were forced to work on a chain gang. -
Brown VS. Board of Education
On May 17, 1954, in the case of Brown v. the Board of Education of Topeka, the U.S. Supreme Court ended federally sanctioned racial segregation in the public schools by ruling unanimously that "separate educational facilities are inherently unequal." Although widely perceived as a revolutionary decision, Brown was in fact the culmination of changes both in the Court and in the strategies of the Civil Rights Movement -
Martin Luther King Jr. Assassination
He was assassinated at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee on April 4, 1968, at the age of 39. King was rushed to St. Joseph's Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 7:05PM that evening. Martin Luther King, Jr. was an American clergyman, activist, and prominent leader of the African-American civil rights movement and Nobel Peace Prize laureate who became known for his advancement of civil rights by using civil disobedience. -
Greensboro Sit-ins
The Greensboro sit-ins were a series of nonviolent protests in 1960 which led to the Woolworth's department store chain reversing its policy of racial segregation in the Southern United States. While not the first sit-ins of the African-American Civil Rights Movement, the Greensboro sit-ins were an instrumental action, leading to increased national sentiment at a crucial period in US history. The primary event took place at the Greensboro, North Carolina Woolworth's store.
