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United states supreme Court ruled that the "White Primary." This excluded African Americans from voting.
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Broke the modern color line in modern color line in major league baseball.
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President Harry S. Truman signed the executive order 9981 allowing equal treatment and opportunity to all people without regard to race, color, religion, or national origin.
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Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat in front of the bus to a white passenger. This was a big deal because there was a designated law that African Americans could not sit in the front but only in the back. Rosa parks were then taken to jail but then later bailed out by a civil rights leader. This then was brought to National prominence. -
African American men entered a local dinner that has designated seating for "whites only." They were so moved by the nonviolent protest they decided to take their own action and sat in the "whites only" area. The police were then involved but could not do anything because they were paying customers. The media then took this seriously and the protest quickly expanded. -
President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the Civil Rights Act of 1960, which prohibited intimidation of black voters and gave judges power to appoint referees to oversee voter registration.
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President's Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity and mandated that projects financed with federal funds "take affirmative action" to ensure that hiring and employment practices are free of racial bias -
Student volunteers on bus trips to test the implementation of new laws prohibiting segregation in interstate travel facilities
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The civil rights movement reached its peak when 250,000 blacks and whites gathered at the Lincoln Memorial for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom
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Reconstruction to make it difficult for poor blacks to vote.
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Civil Rights Act of 1964 made segregation in public facilities and discrimination in employment illegal. -
Black voting-rights activists began the fifty-mile march from Selma to Montgomery. They were viciously attacked by police. The national response to violence against the marchers contributed to the passing of the Voting Rights Act.
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Sixteen states that banned interracial marriage at the time were forced to revise their laws -
Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, where King was speaking in support of striking sanitation workers -
President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Fair Housing Act, prohibiting racial discrimination in the sale, rental, and financing of most housing units in the country.
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Health service's 40-year experiment on African American males described as "used human beings as laboratory animals in a long and inefficient study of how long it takes syphilis to kill someone" has ended.
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