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Executive Order 9981
President Truman signs Exexcutive Order 9981 saying that everyone is to be treated equally no matter there race, color, religion or national origin. -
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Civil Rights Movement
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Brown v. Board
Brown v. Board of Education was passed on My 17th 1954 not allowing segregation inside school doors. -
Emmett Till
Emmett Till was a fourteen year old boy from Chicago was visiting his family in Mississippi when he is kidnapped, beaten and shot then dumped in the Tallahatchie River for allegly whistling at a white women. -
Rosa Parks
On December 1st 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama NAACP member Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat at the front of the 'colored section' of a bus to a white person. -
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SCLC
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Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Martin Luther King, Charles K. Steele, and Fred L. Shuttlesworth established created a group that became a major force in organizing the civil rights movement. -
Little Rock Nine
On day in Little Rock a formally an all white school gets nine African- American kids who are blocked out of the school from the orders of Governor Orval Faubus. Then President Eisenhower sent federal troops and the National Guard to protect the nine kids. -
Woolwoth Lunch Counter sit in
Four black studens from North Carolina Agriculture and Technical College sat at an all white lunch counter at Woolworth's eatery. Where they were attacked by the white folks in the eatery then arrested. -
Freedom Riders
Over the spring and summer student volunteers began taking bus trips through segregated areas. They began known as the 'freedom riders'. During their trips through segregated areas they were brutally attacked/ bombed. -
James Meredith
James Meredith becomes the first black student to enroll to University of Mississippi. There were many riots and violent acts. -
Martin Luther King JR.
Martin Luther King JR. arrested and jailed during anti-segregation protests in Birmingham, AL. While in jail he writes the "Letter From Birmingham Jail" -
Civil Rights Protest
During civil rights protests in Birmingham,AL Commissioner of Public Safety Eugene "Bull" Conner fights the protesters by using heavy powered fire hoses and police dogs to stop the black protesters. -
Medgar Evers
In Jackson, Mississippi Medger Evers Mississippi NAACP field secretary is murdered outside his home. Byron De La Beckwith is convicted of murdering Medgar Evers thirty years later. -
March on Washington
In Washington, D.C. on August 28th 1963 about 200,000 people joined the "March on Washington". Where Martin Luther King JR delivered his famous "I Have A Dream" speech. -
Church bombing
On September 15th 1963 in Birmingham Alabama four young girls were killed in a church bombing. -
24th Amendment
On January 23, 1964 the 24th admendment is passed abolishing poll tax giving them an easier way to vote. -
Civil Rights Acts of 1964
In 1964 President Johnson signs the Civil Rights Acts of 1964 prohibiting discrimination of all kinds based on race, color, religion, or national origin. -
Earthened Dam
The bodies of three civil rights workers - two white one black - were found in a earthened dam. They were later arrested on speeding charges then were handed to the KKK who murdered them. -
Malcolm X
Malcolm X, black nationalist and founder of the Organization of Afro-American Unity is shot to death. -
Police Blockade
Blacks began to march i Montgomery in support of voting rightsbut were stopped by a police blockade fifty people were hospitalized from the brutality of the police trying to stop the people from marching. -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
In 1965 the Voting Rights Act of 1965 making it easier for Southern black people to register to vote.
