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Executive Order 8802
This executive order was to prevent ethnic or racial discrimination in the nations defense industry.
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Jackie Robinson’s MLB Debut
Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier when he became the first African American athlete to play Major League Baseball.
(https://www.biography.com/people/jackie-robinson-9460813) -
Executive Order 9981
This order abolished discrimination. Things like race,color, religion , or natural origin.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_9981) -
Brown v. Board of Education Court Case is Decided
This case was a life changing that the U.S. supreme court ruled that racial segration in the public schools was now unconstantutional.
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Lynching of Emmett Till
Emmit Till was a 14 year old African American boy who was lynched in Mississippi after being accused of whistling at a white women at a grocery store.
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Bus Boycott in Montgomery Begins
Rosa Parks sparked this bus boycott to begin. It lasted over a year with the U.S. Supreme Court ruling segration on buses unconstantutional.
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Creation of the SCLC
The Southern Christian Leadership Conference was formed shortly after the Boycott had ended. The main purpose for this was to advance the causing of civil rights in American, just in a non-viloent way.
(https://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/the-civil-rights-movement-in-america-1945-to-1968/southern-christian-leadership-conference/) -
Little Rock Nine First Escorted to School
These students wanted to attend Central High. The first day of classes an angry white mob blocked black students from entering the school. Later in the month, federal troops were called to escort them in.
(https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/central-high-school-integration) -
Greensboro sit-ins begin
4 young African-American men staged a sit in at Woolworth's lucch counter after they were refused to be served.
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Freedom Riders are attacked in Anniston, Alabama
Freedom Riders were attacked by violent mobs of Klansmen and other terrorists.
(https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/today-in-labor-history-freedom-riders-attacked-in-alabama/) -
James Meredith Enrolls at Ole Miss
James was the first African American student that enrolled at Ole Miss. This was said to have became a pivotal movement in the history of civil rights.
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University of Alabama is Integrated
The took place at Foster Auditorium at the University of Alabama. George Wallace in a way wanted to keep his inaugural promise of "segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever" and stop the desegregation of schools, stood at the door of the auditorium to try to block the entry of two African American students.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stand_in_the_Schoolhouse_Door) -
“I Have A Dream” Speech is Delivered
This speech was delivered for jobs and freedom. He called for civil and economic rights and to put racism to an end. This brought more attention to the Civil Rights movement than had been going on for years.
(http://www.socialstudiesforkids.com/articles/ushistory/mlkihaveadreamspeech.htm) -
16th Street Baptist Church bombing
Four members of the Ku Klux Klan planted at least 15 sticks of dynamite attached to a timing device.This was an act of white terrorism. A bombing leading to four girls being killed during church service.
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Twenty-Fourth Amendment to the Constitution Ratified
The 24th amendment was to created so that poor African Americans and poor whites to stop from voting. With the 24th Amendment being passed meant that anyone can vote without being taxed.
(https://kids.laws.com/24th-amendment) -
Signing of the Civil Rights Act
The signing of the Civil Rights Act shut down the majority of discrimination completely. This meant no discrimination in public places, integration of schools/ other public places, and make employment discrimination illegal.
(https://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?doc=97) -
March on Selma Begins
A march from Selma to Montgomery led by Martin Luther King. The marchers pushing for voting rights in the South were attacked and that is what led to this march.
(https://www.wbaltv.com/article/today-in-history-for-march-21-mlk-begins-march-from-selma-to-montgomery/26894449) -
Signing of the Voting Rights Act
This law was signed to override the legal classifications that prevented the right for African Americans to vote.
(https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/voting-rights-act) -
Loving v. Virginia Court Case is Decided
This court case was fought so that there could be interracial marriages. At the end it was ruled that any states banning interracial marriages would be struck down.
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Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
He was assassinated on April 4th, 1968 at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Martin_Luther_King_Jr.)
