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Executive Order 8802
Executive Order 8802 was signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on July 25, 1941, to prohibit ethnic or racial discrimination in the nation's defense industry.
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Jackie Robinson’s MLB Debut
On April 15, 1947, Jackie Robinson becomes the first African-American in the major leagues when he plays his first game with the Brooklyn Dodgers.
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Executive Order 9981
It abolished discrimination "on the basis of race, color, religion or national origin" in the United States Armed Forces. The executive order eventually led to the end of segregation in the services.
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Brown v. Board of Education Court Case is Decided
American state laws establishing racial segregation in public schools are unconstitutional, even if the segregated schools are otherwise equal in quality.
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Lynching of Emmett Till
a young African-American who was lynched in Mississippi in 1955 at the age of 14, after being accused of offending a white woman in her family's grocery store.
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Bus Boycott in Montgomery Begins
Sparked by the arrest of Rosa Parks on 1 December 1955, the Montgomery bus boycott was a 13-month mass protest that ended with the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that segregation on public buses is unconstitutional.
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Creation of the SCLC
founded the SCLC in order to have a regional organization that could better coordinate civil rights protest activities across the South.
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Little Rock Nine First Escorted to School
On September 4, 1957, the first day of classes at Central High, Governor Orval Faubus called in the Arkansas National Guard to block the black students’ entry into the high school.
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Greensboro sit-ins begin
led to the Woolworth department store chain removing its policy of racial segregation in the Southern United States.
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Freedom Riders are attacked in Anniston, Alabama
The vicious beatings and a firebombing of the Anniston-bound bus by the Ku Klux Klan had the support of local law enforcement and politicians.
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James Meredith Enrolls at Ole Miss
The Ole Miss riot of 1962, or Battle of Oxford, was fought between Southern segregationists and federal and state forces
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University of Alabama is Integrated
The court's decision virtually ensured a showdown between federal authorities and Alabama Governor George Wallace who had made a campaign promise a year earlier to prevent the school's integration even if it required that he stand in the schoolhouse door
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“I Have A Dream” Speech is Delivered
a public speech that was delivered by American civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.
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16th Street Baptist Church bombing
The 16th Street Baptist Church bombing marked a turning point in the United States during the civil rights movement and contributed to support for passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
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Twenty-Fourth Amendment to the Constitution Ratified
prohibits both Congress and the states from conditioning the right to vote in federal elections on payment of a poll tax or other types of tax.
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Signing of the Civil Rights Act
a landmark civil rights and U.S. labor law in the United States that outlaws discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.
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March on Selma Begins
he marches were organized by nonviolent activists to demonstrate the desire of African-American citizens to exercise their constitutional right to vote.
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Signing of the Voting Rights Act
a landmark piece of federal legislation in the United States that prohibits racial discrimination in voting.
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Loving v. Virginia Court Case is Decided
a Supreme Court case that struck down state laws banning interracial marriage in the United States.
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Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
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.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Martin_Luther_King_Jr.
