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Jim Crow Laws
was the laws that legitimately separated black and whites at stores, water fountains, and a lot more things. -
Jackie Robinson
ackie Robinson joins Major League Baseball (he broke the baseball color line (he was the first black baseball player to play in the MLB since the 1880s. he was signed by the dodgers which ended racial segregation that had relegated black players to the Negro leagues for six decades) -
Segregation in Schools
Supreme court rules that segregation in schools is unconstitutional. -
Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks gets arrested for not standing up when a caucasian did not have a seat in other words she refused to go to the back of the bus. -
Little Rock Nine
A crowd of caucasians harass negro students on the first day of school at Little Rocks’s high school. These nine negro students were known as the Little Rock Nine. -
March on Washington
This was a march from the Washington monument to the Lincoln memorial and this is important because this is when Martin Luther King Jr gave his “I have a dream” speech and this moment is highly credited with helping the passing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 -
Gender Employemnt Discrimination
gender discrimination in employment is outlawed. -
Civil Rights Act
this was a landmark piece of civil rights legislation that outlawed major forms of discrimination against racial, ethnic, national and religious minorities and also women. -
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Philip Vera Cruz
Farm workers begin a strike in Delano California. This was a strike led by mostly Filipino farm workers under the leadership of Philip Vera Cruz. They were striking because they were demanding wages equal to the federal minimum wage. -
Black Panther
Black Panthers, the Nation of Islam, and the Black Nationalist Movement advocated retaliatory violence and a separation of the races. started because of the civil right beliefs
The African-American community, being in the minority, depended on the support of the white population, and at least in terms of sentiment, those caught up in the spirit of the hippie movement took the cause of racial justice and equality to heart, and often to the streets. -
Death of Martin Luther King
Civil Rightts leader Martin Luther King Jr. is killed -
Equal Rights Amendment
Congress approves Equal Rights amendment(Equal rights for women).
