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Harry truman
Harry truman issues order 9981 to end segregation in public schools. -
Brown vs Board of education
The supreme court was deciding to end segregation in public schools and segregation was still happening in some places. -
Emmett Till
He was a 14 year old boy who was brutally murdered for allegedly flirting with a white woman and it was brought attention by the civil rights movement. -
Rosa parks
she refused to give up her seat to a white man on a bus. -
bus boycott
It was a civil rights movement where African Americans refused to use buses and it prevented the city from getting money from city transportation. -
Nonviolent protest
60 black pastors and and civil rights leaders from different states and Martin luther King jr. met and they coordinated non violent protest against racial discrimination. -
Little Rock nine
nine black students are blocked from being integrated into little rock. Dwight Eisenhower sends federal troops to escort the students and they still got harassed. -
Voter laws
Eisenhower signs the civil rights act of 1957 into law to help protect voter laws. -
sit in
4 african american college students refust to leave a whites only lunch counter without being served. -
Ruby Bridges
escorted by 4 armed marshals and became the first student to integrate into a elementary school. -
Freedom riders
Black and white activist were known as freedom riders. They took bus trips through the south to protest segregated bus. and attempted to use white only bathrooms, lunch counters.
"I often wonder whether we do not rest our hopes too much upon constitutions, upon laws, and upon courts. These are false hopes; believe me, these are false hopes. Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, nor court can save it.” -
I have a dream
250000 people took place on the march on washington for jobs and freedom and Martin Luther King gives a speech.
"We shall overcome because the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice" -
Bomb at 16th street
A bomb went off at a church in Birmingham and kills 4 girls and injures 7 other people. -
Civil rights act of 1964
President Lyndon B Johnson signed the civil rights act of 1964 and it prevents employment discrimination -
Malcom X
Malcom x was assassinated during a rally by the members of the nation of islam -
Bloody sunday
600 civil marchers walk to selma and local police block and brutally and beat them and reached montgomery on Mach 25 -
voting rights acts of 1965
President Johnson signs the voting rights of 1965 to prevent the use of literacy test as a voting requirement. -
Martin Luther King gets Assassinated
Martin Luther King was assassinated on the balcony of his hotel room. -
Civil rights act of 1968
President Johnson signs the civil rights act of 1968 also known as the fair housing act providing equal housing opportunity regardless of race
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Protest
College students held a protest for changes for black studies program.