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An establishment president Harry S. Truman signed. An executive order establishing the president's committee on Equality of Treatment and Opportunity in the Armed services. Committing the Government to integrate the segregated military. -
Where the U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously that racial segregation in public schools violated the Fourteenth Amendment to the constitution. Which it prohibits the states from denying equal protection of the laws to any person within jurisdictions. -
A 14-year-old African American was lynched in Mississippi in 1955. After being accused of offending a white woman in her family's grocery store. In conclusion, he was beaten to death! -
Rosa parks invigorated the struggle for racial equality when she refused to give up her seat to a white man. So they did a boycott with 17,000 black citizens. -
At this school, a group of nine black students enrolled at a formally all-white school in Arkansas called central High School, in September 1957. They made it through a shouting crowd obscenities and even throwing objects. Once they reached the front the national guard prevented them from entering. -
A civil rights protest that started in 1960. When young African American students staged a sit-in at a segregated Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro NC. They refused to leave after being denied service. -
Student activists from the congress of racial equality launched freedom rides to challenge segregation on interstate busses and bus terminals. It illuminated the courage of black and white youth and highlighted the leadership of Diane Nash. -
Riots! by locals and students and segregationist gathered. To protest the enrollment of James Meredith, a black air force veteran attempting to integrate the all-white school. -
It was a call of equality and freedom. It became one of the defining moments of the civil rights movement and one f the most iconic speeches in American history. -
This racially motivated attack killed four young girls and shocked the nation. It served as a site of mass meetings and rallying points for African Americans protesting widespread institutionalized racism. -
John F Kennedy got shot in the head and his vice president Lyndon became the president. When he became president he was on a major tax cut, the clean air act, and the civil rights act. -
It's the right of the U.S. to vote in any primary or other election for president or vice president. Citizens used to have to pay a fee to vote but this fee was canceled by the poll tax amendment the 24th amendment to be exact. -
Prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, and national origin. The Act prohibited discrimination in public accommodations and federally funded programs. Also strengthened the enforcement of voting rights. -
This is the murder of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner, also known as the freedom summer murders. This refers to three activists who were abducted and murdered in Philadelphia, Mississippi -
It outlawed the discriminatory voting practices adopted in many southern states after the civil war. It was caused because still violence was persisted in states where blacks were continually blocked from voting.