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The NAACP Legal Defense Fund is established in New York City
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Franklin D. Roosevelt issues Executive Order 8802, desegregating war production plans. The order also establishes the Fair Employment Practices
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The Great Migration continues as African Americans from the South come North and West to work in factories
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North Africa is invaded by the United States and Great Britian
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The U.S. Supreme Court declares that white only political primaries are unconstitutional in the Smith vs. Allwright case.
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The United Negro College Fund is established by Fedrick Douglass Patterson to provide support to historically black colleges and universities as well as its students
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The G.I Bill of Rights is signed into law, providing benefits to veterans
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400,000 mine workers begin to strike, with other industries following their lead
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The U.S. Supreme Court rules that segregation on interstate bus travel is unconstitutional in Morgan vs. Virginia
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Jackie Robinson becomes the first African- American to play major league baseball when he is signed to the Brooklyn Dodgers
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President Harry Truman issues Executive Order 9981, desegregating the armed forces
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Brown vs. Board of Education declares that racial segregation in school is unconstitutional
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The Supreme Court of the U.S orders that all public schools be integrated with deliberate speed
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Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat at the front of the "colored section" of the bus to a white passenger
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Montgomery buses are desegregated