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2007
February
Emmett Till's 1955 murder case, reopened by the Department of Justice in 2004, is officially closed. The two confessed murderers, J. W. Milam and Roy Bryant, were dead of cancer by 1994, and prosecutors lacked sufficient evidence to pursue further convictions
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1948
1948
President Truman signs Executive Order 9981, which states, "It is hereby declared to be the policy of the President that there shall be equality of treatment and opportunity for all persons in the armed services without regard to race, color, religion, or national origin."
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1954
1954
President Harry S. Truman “expanded on Roosevelt’s limited and tentative steps toward racial moderation.
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1955
1955
The murder of till a teenaged boy that was from Chicago who was visiting his family in Money,Mississippi in the summer was brutally beaten on August 28 by his
two white abductors, who then shot Till and dumped his body in the Tallahatchie River.http://tinyurl.com/clzll8a
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1957
1957
The Civil Rights Act of 1957 was introduced in Eisenhower’s presidency and was the act that kick-started the civil rights legislative programme that was to include the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the 1964 Voting Rights Act
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1960
1960
The 1960 Civil Rights Act introduced penalties to be charged against anybody who obstructed someone’s attempt to register to vote or someone’s attempt to actually vote.
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1961
1961
African-American people had to take a bus to travel but then it got banned and to separate all the blacks from the white in everything they do. That includes drinking water,restroom,Andy where ever they sit. One time they had a bus to where ever they go.
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James Meredith
1962
James Meredith becomes the first black student to enroll at the University of Mississippi.James Howard Meredith is an American Civil Rights Movement figure, writer, political adviser and Air Force veteran. Wikipedia
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1963
1963
In 1963, the freedom-fires sparked by student activists in the sit-ins, Freedom Rides, and voter-registration campaigns merge into a run-away blaze igniting the entire South. In community after community, mass movements of students and adults rise up to challenge and defy generations of oppression and exploitation.
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1964
1964
The Civil Rights Act of 1964, which ended segregation in public places and banned employment discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin, is considered one of the crowning legislative achievements of the civil rights movement.
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1992
1992
April 29
The first race riots in decades erupt in south-central Los Angeles after a jury acquits four white police officers for the videotaped beating of African American Rodney King http://www.infoplease.com/spot/civilrightstimeline1.html
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2003
2003
June 23
In the most important affirmative action decision since the 1978 Bakke case, the Supreme Court upholds the University of Michigan Law School's policy, ruling that race can be one of many factors considered by colleges when selecting their students because it furthers. q=http://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DURxwe6LPvkM&sa=U&ei=cUQ5VYvfMZHToATf74DQCw&ved=0CCEQtwIwBA&usg=AFQjCNFKbuKRbqkhDZdbDNdvti8cWd9zeQ
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2005
2005
June 21
The ringleader of the Mississippi civil rights murders Edgar Ray Killen, is convicted of manslaughter on the 41st anniversary of the crimes.http://tinyurl.com/llucrq5
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Rosa Parks
October 24
Rosa Parks dies at age 92.Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was an African-American Civil Rights activist, whom the United States Congress called "the first lady of civil rights" and "the mother of the freedom movement". -
2009
In the Supreme Court case Ricci v. DeStefano, a lawsuit brought against the city of New Haven, 18 plaintiffs 17 white people and one Hispanic—argued that results of the 2003 lieutenant and captain exams were thrown out when it was determined that few minority firefighters qualified for advancement. The city claimed they threw out the results because they feared liability under a disparate-impact statute for issuing tests that discriminated against minority firefighters.
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2009
In the Supreme Court case Ricci v. DeStefano, a lawsuit brought against the city of New Haven, 18 plaintiffs—17 white people and one Hispanic—argued that results of the 2003 lieutenant and captain exams were thrown out when it was determined that few minority firefighters qualified for advancement. The city claimed they threw out the results because they feared liability under a disparate-impact statute for issuing tests that discriminated against minority firefighters.http://www.history.com/top -
2013
Shelby County v. Holder, the Supreme Court struck down Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act, which established a formula for Congress to use when determining if a state or voting jurisdiction requires prior approval before changing its voting laws. Currently under Section 5 of the act nine—mostly Southern—states with a history of discrimination must get clearance from Congress before changing voting rules to make sure racial minorities are not negatively affected. http://www.biography.com/people/g -
2008
Senator Edward Kennedy introduces the Civil Rights Act of 2008. Some of the proposed provisions include ensuring that federal funds are not used to subsidize discrimination, holding employers accountable for age discrimination, and improving accountability for other violations of civil rights and workers' rights.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S64zRnnn4Pohttp://tinyurl.com/m8tx694
