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Founding of CORE
Congress of Racial Equality: an organization founded in 1942 that was dedicated to civil rights reform through nonviolent action -
Integration of Military
President Harry S. Truman signed this executive order establishing the President's Committee on Equality of Treatment and Opportunity in the Armed Services, committing the government to integrating the segregated military. -
Brown v. Board Decision
On May 17, 1954, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Earl Warren delivered the unanimous ruling in the landmark civil rights case Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas. State-sanctioned segregation of public schools was a violation of the 14th amendment and was therefore unconstitutional. No more segregated schools. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Montgomery Bus Boycott: a 1955 boycott that resulted in the integration of Montgomery, Alabama's bus system -
Little Rock 9
The first 9 black students to be integrated into an old segregated school. -
Sit-ins
Student protesters challenged segregation in various ways. They sat down in “whites-only” public places and refused to move, thereby causing the business to lose customers. This tactic is known as a sit-in. -
James Meredith
James Meredith enrolls at the University of Mississippi.When his application was rejected, Meredith turned to the NAACP to help him take his case through the courts. Refusing him admission, the court said, amounted to the state of Mississippi maintaining segregation.
Mississippi governor Ross Barnett vowed that no black student would attend Ole Miss while he was in office. On September 20, Barnett, acting as university registrar, personally refused to enroll Meredith. -
Freedom Rides
Freedom Riders were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States. -
Birmingham
Marches and protests took place. Children brought in. Bull Connor police brutality -
March on Washington
The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, the March on Washington, or The Great March on Washington, was held in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday, August 28, 1963. -
Civil Rights Act
banned segregation in businesses and places open to the public. prohibited racial and gender discrimination in employment. -
Freedom Summer (3 worker disappearance)
Freedom Summer, or the Mississippi Summer Project, was a volunteer campaign in the United States launched in June 1964 to attempt to register as many African-American voters as possible in Mississippi. -
Selma March (1st one)
The Selma to Montgomery marches were three protest marches, held in 1965, along the 54-mile highway from Selma, Alabama to the state capital of Montgomery. -
Voting Rights Act
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 is a landmark piece of federal legislation in the United States that prohibits racial discrimination in voting -
King Assassination
Martin Luther King Jr., an American clergyman and civil rights leader, was shot at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4, 1968. He was rushed to St. Joseph's Hospital, and was pronounced dead.
