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Executive order
President Truman sign an executive order stating that all men should be given equal opportunity.
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Thurgood Marshall
Thurgood Marshall The Supreme Court rules on the landmark case Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, all agreeing that segregation in public schools is unconstitutional.
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Emmit Till
Fourteen-year-old Chicagoan Emmett Till is visiting family in Mississippi when he is kidnapped, brutally beaten, shot, and dumped in the Tallahatchie River. He supposedly whistled at a white woman. J. W. Milam and Roy Bryan are arrested for the murder and acquitted by an all white jury. They later boast about committing the murder in a Look magazine interview. The case becomes a cause of passion for the civil rights movement.
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Rosa parks
NAACP member Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat at the front of the colored section of a bus to a white passenger. Defying a southern custom of the time.
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Buss boycott
In response to the arrest of Rosa Parks the Montgomery black community launched a bus boycott. which will last for more than a year, until the buses were desegregated December 21, 1956.
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Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Martin Luther King, Charles K. Steele, and Fred L. Shuttlesworth create the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Martin Luther King is made the first president. The organization became a major force in organizing the civil rights movement and based its principles on civil disobedience and nonviolence.
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attept at integration
Formerly all-white Central High School learns that integration was easier said than done. Nine black students were blocked from entering the school on the orders of Governor Orval Faubus. President Eisenhower sends federal troops and the National Guard to intervene on behalf of the students.
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Lunch counter protest
Four black students from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College began a sit-in at a segregated Woolworth's lunch counter. Although they were refused service they were still allowed to stay at the counter. This event triggered many similar nonviolent protests throughout many of the Southern states. Six months later the original four protesters were allowed to be served lunch at the same lunch counter.
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The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee Is founded at Shaw University. Thus providing young blacks with a place in the civil rights movement. http://tinyurl.com/ld9fjcl -
freedom riders
Over the spring and summer student volunteers begin taking bus trips through the South to test out new laws that prohibit segregation in the travel facilities. This includes the bus and railway stations. Several of the groups of freedom riders were attacked by angry mobs on the way. http://tinyurl.com/ajg8kvl
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James Meredith
James Meredith becomes the first black student to enroll at the University of Mississippi. Violence and riots surrounding the incident because President Kennedy to send 5,000 federal troops.
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Birmingham
Martin Luther King is arrested and jailed during anti-segregation protests in Birmingham, Ala.; he writes his seminal "Letter from Birmingham Jail," arguing that individuals have the moral duty to disobey unjust laws. http://tinyurl.com/y8lp7ht -
Eugene Connor
During civil rights protests in Birmingham Commissioner of Public Safety Eugene Connor used fire hoses and police dogs on black demonstrators. These images of brutality, which were on tv and published everywhere. This was very important in gaining sympathy and support for the civil rights movement around the world. http://tinyurl.com/oovqdl3
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Medgar Evers
Mississippi's NAACP field secretary, 37-year-old Medgar Evers, is murdered outside his home. Byron De La Beckwith is tried twice in 1964, both trials resulting in hung juries. Thirty years later he is convicted for murdering Evers.
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I have a dream speech
For March on Washington, about 200,000 people congregating at the Lincoln Memorial. Many patiently waited and listen as Martin Luther King proudly speaks his famous "I Have a Dream" speech.
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Bombmings
Four girls named Denise McNair, Cynthia Wesley, Carole Robertson, and Addie Mae Collins attending Sunday school were killed in an explosion. A bomb exploded at the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church which was known for the location for civil rights meetings. Riots broke out in Birmingham causing an additional death of two black youths. -
24 ammendment
The 24th Amendment abolishes the poll tax. Originally the poll tax had been instituted in 11 southern states after Reconstruction to make it difficult for blacks in poverty to vote which was more than the majority of the population. Even if they had the money to vote, some how there would be an issue preventing them from voting as the whites didn’t care for their rights and opinions.
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Civil Rights Act of 1964
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Burning Missippi
Three civil right workers found dead in Neshoba County, Mississippi in a dam. These civil right workers, two whom were white and one was black, were investigating the burning church for blacks. In their attempt of helping blacks register for voting, they were jailed then released to the hateful Ku Klux Klan who murdered them brutally. Cases of the murder for these three men failed until the federal government stepped in and only imprisoning a few people in connection
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Malcolm X
Malcolm X was shot to death. As this man was a civil rights activist, he also became involved in the Islamic faith. He believed black and white can be united and soon after that he was killed. The motive of the murder is unclear, reasons may include controversy.
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BLOODY SUNDAY
SELMA
A proud march heading to Montgomery for the deserving voting rights, they were stopped in their process by blockage created by the police. The police brought out tear gas, whips, and clubs against them only to hospitalize fifty innocent marchers. -
Selma
A proud march heading to Montgomery for the deserving voting rights, they were stopped in their process by blockage created by the police. The police brought out tear gas, whips, and clubs against them only to hospitalize fifty innocent marchers. In the eyes of the media, the day was known as BLOODY SUNDAY.
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Riots in LA
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Voting Rights Act of 1965.
Congress finally passes the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Southern blacks have an easier process to vote and they no longer have to deal with the literacy tests, poll taxes, and other such ridiculous requirements that were used to prevent them from voting.
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President Johnson brings in the Executive order 1946.
Finally people seem to actually realize how The Civil Rights Law doesn’t prevent and stop discrimination. President Johnson brings in the Executive order 1946. Equal opportunity must be in action in all times. No one will be discriminated for their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or national origin.
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Executive order 11246.
Finally people seem to actually realize how The Civil Rights Law doesn’t prevent and stop discrimination. President Johnson brings in the Executive order 11246. Equal opportunity must be in action in all times. No one will be discriminated for their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or national origin.
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militant Black Panthers
In Oakland, California, Huey Newton and Bobby Seale founded the militant Black Panthers. They defended themselves when the police attacked unreasonably. This was a group of people who defended themselves, and were their own providers.
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Black Power
The leader of Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee was expressing a speech and said the phrase black power. This had allowed a proud assertion of black pride and he defined it exactly This terms empowered the civil group to being more strong and brave and to do action changes their destiny of their constant discrimination.
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Loving vs Virginia
In the hasteful debate of Loving v. Virginia the Supreme Court rules that prohibiting inter racial marriage is unconstitutional. Sixteen states that had previously banned interracial marriage at the time are forced to revise their laws.
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Race riots
July 12–16 and July 23–30 were days that involved race riots and caused destruction and disturbance. http://tinyurl.com/3akuwna -
MLK assasination
In Memphis, Tennessee, Martin Luther King, age 39, is assassinated as he stood on the balcony of his hotel room by James Earl Ray.
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Civil Rights Act of 1968
President Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1968, prohibiting discrimination in the housing industry.
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