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Plessy v. Ferguson
upheld a Louisiana state law that allowed for "equal but separate accommodations for the white and colored races." -
Tuskegee airmen
the first African American military aviators in the United States armed forces -
Integration of Major League Baseball
was a segregated sport as the American and National Leagues that formed Major League Baseball unofficially banned African-Americans from their ranks. That all changed when Jackie Robinson stepped onto the field for the Brooklyn Dodgers on April 15, 1947. -
Integration of the armed forces
President Harry Truman signed Executive Order 9981, creating the President's Committee on Equality of Treatment and Opportunity in the Armed Services. -
Sweatt v. painter
graduate and professional schools existed for white students but not for black students, black students must be admitted to the all-white institutions, and that the equal protection clause required Sweatt's admission to the University of Texas School of Law -
Brown v. Board of education
the justices ruled unanimously that racial segregation of children in public schools was unconstitutional. -
Integration of Little Rock high school
Arkansas, gained national attention on September 3, 1957, when Governor Orval Faubus mobilized the Arkansas National Guard in an effort to prevent nine African American students from integrating the high school -
Death of emmitt till
Her husband, Roy Bryant, and brother-in-law, J.W. Milam, kidnapped and brutally murdered Till, dumping his body in the Tallahatchie River. -
Montgomery bus boycott
as a civil rights protest during which African Americans refused to ride city buses in Montgomery, Alabama, to protest segregated seating -
Civil rights act of 1957j
established the Civil Rights Section of the Justice Department and empowered federal prosecutors to obtain court injunctions against interference with the right to vote. -
Greensboro four lunch counter sit in
1960 four freshmen from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College in Greensboro walked into the F. W. Woolworth store and quietly sat down at the lunch counter. They were refused service, but they stayed until closing time. -
Integration of the university of Mississippi
riots erupted on the campus of the University of Mississippi in Oxford where locals, students, and committed segregationists had gathered to protest the enrollment of James Meredith, a black Air Force veteran attempting to integrate the all-white school. -
Integration of the university of Alabama
President John F. Kennedy federalized National Guard troops and deployed them to the University of Alabama to force its desegregation. The next day, Governor Wallace yielded to the federal pressure, and two African American students—Vivian Malone and James A. Hood—successfully enrolled -
March on Washington and I have a dream speech
to advocate for the civil and economic rights of African Americans. At the march, final speaker Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., standing in front of the Lincoln Memorial, delivered his historic "I Have a Dream" speech in which he called for an end to racism. -
Assassination on JFK
was an American politician who served as the 35th president of the United States from 1961 until his assassination in 1963. He was the youngest person to assume the presidency by election and the youngest president at the end of his tenure -
Twenty-fourth amendment
prohibited the federal and state governments from imposing poll taxes before a citizen could participate in a federal election. -
Civil rights act of 1964 signed by president Johnson
prohibited discrimination in public places, provided for the integration of schools and other public facilities, and made employment discrimination illegal -
Assassination of Malcolm x
human rights activist who was a prominent figure during the civil rights movement. A spokesman for the Nation of Islam until 1964, he was a vocal advocate for Black empowerment and the promotion of Islam within the Black community. -
Selma to Montgomery march Bloody Sunday
The march was led by John Lewis of SNCC and the Reverend Hosea Williams of SCLC, followed by Bob Mants of SNCC and Albert Turner of SCLC. -
Voting rights act of 1965
signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson, aimed to overcome legal barriers at the state and local levels that prevented African Americans from exercising their right to vote as guaranteed under the 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. -
Assaination of MLK jr in Memphis Tennessee
He was a prominent leader of the civil rights movement and a Nobel Peace Prize laureate who was known for his use of nonviolence and civil disobedience. -
Voting rights act of 1968
prohibited discrimination concerning the sale, rental, and financing of housing based on race, religion, national origin, and since 1974, sex