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Civil rights

  • President harry Truman issues executive order 9981

    President harry Truman issues executive order 9981

    To end segregation in the armed president harry truman issues executive order 9981
  • Brown V.  Board of education

    Brown V. Board of education

    a consolidation of five cases into one. The supreme court decides to end segregation in schools
  • Emmitt Till

    Emmitt Till

    A 19 year old boy is brutally murdered for allegedly flirting with a white woman.
  • Rosa Parks

    Rosa Parks

    A African American woman (Rosa Parks) refused to give up her seat to a white man in bus which led to her arrest.
  • Sixty Black pastors ands civil rights leaders met in Georgia

    Sixty Black pastors ands civil rights leaders met in Georgia

    A coordinated nonviolent posters against racial discrimination met in Georgia to do a nonviolent protest in a southern state(prost lasted from Jan 10-11)
  • Little rock nine

    Little rock nine

    Nine black students are escorted by the military for a year to a white school.
  • Church boming

    Church boming

    A black Baptist church was bomb nd killed 4 people and the people who did it only had to pay a $100 fee.
  • March in Washington

    March in Washington

    A peaceful protest where both blacks and whites marched in Washington and where MLK gave his speech.
  • Malcom X assassinated

    Malcom X assassinated

    Malcolm X, an African American Muslim minister and human rights activist who was a popular figure during the civil rights movement, was shot multiple times and died from his wounds.
  • Bloody Sunday

    Bloody Sunday

    6700 hundred people attach on Edmund Pettus Bridge ( mostly Blacks who where attacked) by law enforcement in Alabama.
  • Voting act

    Voting act

    this act got rid of the things that people who weren't white, what they had to do to be able to vote.
  • Civil rights act

    Civil rights act

    Eisenhower5d signs the Civil rights act which mean no matter race ,sex or religion you can segregate them.
  • Sit-In

    Sit-In

    4 black college students go into and whites only dinner and sit at th4 counter and refuse to leave until they are forcefully removed.
  • martin Luther king Jr assasinated

    martin Luther king Jr assasinated

    while standing on his porch MLK was shot and killed.
  • Fair house act

    Fair house act

    The fair house act was no matter race, sex or religion you cant house them differently.