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World War ||
Over a million African Americans worked in defense factories during World War ||. Many of them thought fiighting for their Country would help them become equal citizens with equal rights. It did'nt. Nearly one million black men and woman ser ved in the American Armed Forces during World War ||. -
Race Riots
Segrigation forced blacks into slum neighborhoods. African Americans also faced racial violence. in the summer of 1943 there were race riots in a number of American cities. Less then a month after Kerner Commission report was issued, race riots broke out in at least 100 black communities across the nation.
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Jackie Robinson signed to major leagues
Branch Richey sighned Jackie Robinson to play for the Montreal Royals. In to first year he played he won rookie of the year. Other black baseball players soon followed Robinsonb, because he was the first black baseball player signed to the majors. -
Rossa Parks
On December 1, Rossa Parks was on a bus ride home. she sat in the 11th row. A white man needed a seat. The bus driver ordered Parks and three other blacks to move. Parks refused to stand up. She was arrested and put in jail. This make other people feel it was their time to change the rules. -
Birmingham Protest
Martin Luther King helped work with citizens fighting for their rights in Birmingham. Civil rights workers staged boycotts, marches and sit-ins. They were working to register black boters. A local police official ordered all protests to stop but they didn't. -
Civil Rights Act
People were getting sleepy when the last speaker came. Martin Luther King Jr. came to the microphone. He gave his famous I have a a dream speach. A few months later, President Kennedy was assasinated.
