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The Civil Rights Movement
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Plessy vs. Fergususon
Court case between black and white that declared that blacks and whites were seperate but equal. -
Excutive Order 9981
States:"It is hereby declared to be the policy of the President that there shall be equality of treatment and opportunity for all persons in the armed services without regard to race, color, religion, or national origin." -
Murder of a child
Fourteen-year-old Chicagoan Emmett Till is visiting family in Mississippi when he is kidnapped, brutally beaten, shot, and dumped in the Tallahatchie River for allegedly whistling at a white woman. Two white men, J. W. Milam and Roy Bryant, are arrested for the murder and acquitted by an all-white jury. They later boast about committing the murder in a Look magazine interview. The case becomes a cause célèbre of the civil rights movement. -
SNCC
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, which is founded at Shaw University and provided young blacks a place in the Civil Rights Movement -
James Meredith
Becomes the first black student to enroll at the University of Mississippi. Violence and riots surrounding the incident cause President Kennedy to send 5,000 federal troops. -
Asassination of Malcolm X
(Harlem, N.Y.) Malcolm X, black nationalist and founder of the Organization of Afro-American Unity, is shot to death. It is believed the assailants are members of the Black Muslim faith, which Malcolm had recently abandoned in favor of orthodox Islam. -
Loving vs. Virginia
In Loving v. Virginia, the Supreme Court rules that prohibiting interracial marriage is unconstitutional. Sixteen states that still banned interracial marriage at the time are forced to revise their laws. -
Civil Rights Act of 1968
On April 11 President Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1968 which made all discrimination of sales,rental, and finacing of houses.
