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Jackie Robinson enters Major League Baseball
Jackie Robinson became the first African American to play Major League Baseball which gave other African-American -
Executive Order 9981 signed by President Truman
Harry Truman signed an Executive Order creating the President's Committee on Equality of Treatment and Opportunity in the Armed Services -
Rosa Parks Arrest
Rosa Parks was taken into custody in Montgomery Alabama for disorderly conduct after she declined to surrender her bus seat to a white man. Civil Rights activist E. D. Nixon posted her bail, along with the assistance of their white allies, attorney Clifford Durr and his spouse, Virginia.