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Integration of Armed Forces
Harry Truman signs an executive order declaring all Armed Forces to integrate and remove any discrimination -
Brown vs. Board of Education
Supreme Court rules segregation in public schools is unconsitutional -
Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat on a bus, she jumpstarted the Montgomery Bus boycott which led to integration on public transportation -
Little Rock Nine
Nine black students are moved into an all white school, when they are harassed, President Eisenhower brings in Federal troops to protect them -
Sit-Ins
Four black college students begin the sit-ins at a Woolworth lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina -
Freedom Rides
CORE organizes freedom rides for bus integration and the end of discrimination and segregation in the south -
March on Washington
MLK delivers his famous "I have a dream" speech as 200,000 people participate in the rally -
Malcolm X assasinated
Malcolm X, and outspoken civil rights leader is shot by members of the Nation of Islam -
Selma Bridge
Police use tear gas, clubs and whips to break up a peaceful march, 50 marchers are hospitalized -
Voting Rights Act 1965
Makes any sort of literacy tests etc. illgegal and makes it easier to vote as an African American -
Affirmative Action
President Johnson issues an executive order that all private businesses must make affirmative action to hire minorities -
Black Panthers
Bobby Seale and Huey Newton formed the Black Panthers, a militant black organization
