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Executive Order 9981
The order states "...there shall be equality of treatment and opportunity for all persons in the armed services without regard to race, color, religion or national origin...". The significance of this is the US trusting other races other than just white people and it also allows more troops to be drafted. -
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kans.
LinkThis Supreme Court case made it so that schooling was not separate between the races. It also overruled the Supreme Court case in 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson that stated that schooling should be separate, but equal. -
Emmett Till Murder
LinkEmmett (black man) was murdered while visiting family in Mississippi. He was kidnapped and beaten and shot then dumped in the Tallahatchie River after whistling at a white woman. This case caused uproar in the civil rights community. -
Rosa Parks Buss Refusal
LinkRosa Parks was a NAACP member that refused to give her seat to a white passenger on a bus. She was then arrested and put in jail for over a year. This then cause an event in 1956 desegregating buses. -
Buss Boycott
MLK chosen to lead bus boycott where black people did not ride buses and caused a large loss in money in the bus businesses. -
Establishment of SCLC
Martin Luther King was made the leader of the SCLC (Southern Christian Leadership Conference). The SCLC made great impacts on the civil rights movements throughout the US. -
Little Rock nine
9 black children were trying to get into a school after they were able to, but white people were stopping them. Soldiers came and let the black children into the school and provided as their personal guard/ -
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Baltimore Sit-ins & Protests
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Series of people that refused to serve black citizens at bars and restaurants. -
Greensboro Four
LinkFour students in Greensboro sat at a segregated lunch counter and they were refused service for the entire day. The next day they came with 25 other students. This inspired other people to do the same. -
SNCC Foundation
LinkThe SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee) was founded. This provided blacks with a place to base their civil rights movement out of. -
Freedom riders
LinkBlacks traveled around in buses using white restrooms and lunch counters causing them to get beat by the white people that did not accept them. -
First Black Student
James Meredith was the first black student to enroll into the University of Mississippi. This caused mass riots causing President Kennedy to send 5,000 troops to Mississippi. -
MLKJ Arrested
LinkMartin Luther King Jr. was arrested in Birmingham during anti-segregation protests. He then wrote his famous letter “Letter from Birmingham Jail”. -
Protests in Birmingham
Police used fire hoses and attack dogs to hold off black protestors. This was a brutal way to hold off the protestors. -
March on Washington
Link200,000 people marched to the Lincoln Memorial to hear MLKJ’s “I Have a Dream” speech. -
Sunday School Bomb
A bomb planted by a member of the KKK killed four little girls attending Sunday school.
