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black history month

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  • truman signs executive order 9981

    truman signs executive order 9981

    this order declared equility in treatment and oppurtunity for armed forces
  • rosa parks refuses to move from a white persons seat on the bus

    rosa parks refuses to move from a white persons seat on the bus

  • Martin Luther King, Charles K. Steele, and Fred L. Shuttlesworth establish the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, of which King is made the first president.

    Martin Luther King, Charles K. Steele, and Fred L. Shuttlesworth establish the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, of which King is made the first president.

  • james meredith was the first black man to be enrolled at the university of mississippi.

    james meredith was the first black man to be enrolled at the university of mississippi.

    violence brok out and president kennedy sent out 5,000 troops.
  • MLK arrested during a segragration march in birmingham.

    MLK arrested during a segragration march in birmingham.

  • over 200,000 people march and show up in washington DC for MLK's "i have a dream" speech

  • Four young girls, Denise McNair, Cynthia Wesley, Carole Robertson, and Addie Mae Collins attended Sunday school and where killed when a bomb went off.

  • President Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

  • Congress passes the Voting Rights Act of 1965 so black people can vote.

  • Martin Luther King, at age 39, is shot as he stands on the balcony outside his hotel room

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