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Executive Order 8802
Was signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, to prohibit ethnic or racial discrimination in the nation's defense industry. It also set up the Fair Employment Practice Committee.
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Jackie Robinson’s MLB Debut
was an American professional baseball player who became the first African American to play in Major League Baseball. When the Dodgers signed Robinson, they announce the end of racial segregation in professional baseball that had relegated black players to the Negro leagues.
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Executive Order 9981
President Truman signed Executive Order 9981, which ended segregation in the armed forces. Help black soldiers fight alongside white soldiers, this executive order helped kick start the Civil Rights movement.
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Brown v. Board of Education Court Case is Decided
Decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court ruled that American state laws establishing racial segregation in public schools are unconstitutional.
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Bus Boycott in Montgomery Begins
Sparked by the arrest of Rosa Parks, the Montgomery bus boycott was a 13-month mass protest that ended with the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that segregation on public buses is unconstitutional.
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Creation of the SCLC
Martin Luther King, Jr., Bayard Rustin, Ralph Abernathy, Fred Shuttlesworth, and others, founded the SCLC in order to have a regional organization that could better coordinate civil rights protest activities across the South.
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Little Rock Nine First Escorted to School
The first day of classes at Central High, Governor Orval Faubus called in the Arkansas National Guard to block the black students' entry into the high school. That same month, President Dwight D. Eisenhower sent in federal troops to escort the Little Rock Nine into the school.
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Greensboro sit-ins begin
The Greensboro sit-ins were a series of nonviolent protests in Greensboro, North Carolina, which led to the Woolworth department store chain removing its policy of racial segregation in the Southern United States.
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Freedom Riders are attacked in Anniston, Alabama
Freedom Riders were attacked by organized mobs of Klansmen and other terrorists in Anniston and Birmingham, Ala. The vicious beatings and a firebombing thrown into the bus by the Ku Klux Klan had the support of local law enforcement and politicians.
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James Meredith Enrolls at Ole Miss
Meredith became the first African-American student to enroll at the University of Mississippi. Meredith's admission is regarded as a pivotal moment in the history of civil rights.
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University of Alabama is Integrated
The staunch conservative demonstrated his loyalty to the cause, when black students Vivian Malone and James A. Hood showed up at the University of Alabama campus in Tuscaloosa to attend class.
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“I Have A Dream” Speech is Delivered
"I Have a Dream" speech was delivered by American civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, in which he called for civil and economic rights and an end to racism in the United States.
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16th Street Baptist Church bombing
The Birmingham Church Bombing was an attack of the KKK on an African American church called 16th Street Baptist Church. Over 200 people were in the church when the bomb blew, 4 young girls died all under the age of 15. After the bombing the hatred grew more between the whites and blacks.Hatred filled the city and segregation prospered.
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Twenty-Fourth Amendment to the Constitution Ratified
The Twenty-fourth Amendment of the United States Constitution prohibits both Congress and the states from conditioning the right to vote in federal elections on payment of a poll tax or other types of tax.
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Signing of the Civil Rights Act
The civil rights Act of 1964 was signed into law by President LBJ. it outlawed discrimination against a group of people or one person in public places. The act gave people hope for equality. It gave people new opportunists like school integration.
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March on Selma Begins
The march begin from Selma to Montgomery. Fighting for African-American voting rights, 3,200 civil rights demonstrators in Alabama, led by Martin Luther King Jr., was a historic march from Selma to Montgomery
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Signing of the Voting Rights Act
Prohibits racial discrimination in voting, was signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson during the Civil Rights Movement. Designed to enforce the voting rights guaranteed by the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution, secured the right to vote for racial minorities throughout the country and to be the most effective piece of federal civil rights legislation ever enacted in the country.
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Loving v. Virginia Court Case is Decided
In the case Loving v. Virginia a white man and a black women wanted to get marry but couldn't because interracial marriage was illegal. The people of Virginia believed that interracial marriage would destroy the fabric of society. Although racism was still a thing, minorities were starting to receive their due rights do interracial marriage shouldn't have been an issue. Loving won the court case.
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Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
American clergyman and civil rights leader, was shot at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. He was a prominent leader of the Civil Rights Movement and a Nobel Peace Prize laureate who was known for his use of nonviolence and civil disobedience.
https://www.britannica.com/topic/assassination-of-Martin-Luther-King-Jr
