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Executive Order 9981
President Truman signs Executive Order 9981, which 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. -
Brown VS Board of Education
Map: When a seven year old named Linda Brown, who was black, tried to enroll into an all white school in Topeka, Kansas in the year 1950, The school denied the enrollment, The NAACP supported Brown's father in sueing the TBoE (Topeka Board of Education). This case is known as the "Brown v.s. Board of Education" case. When the case reached the Supreme Court, They made a ruling that stated that Seperate but equal was NOT Okay, which undid Plessy v.s. Ferguson case. -
Emmett Till
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. -
Rosa Parks Bus Boycott
Rosa Parks does not give up her seat in the front of the "whites only" section on a bus to a white woman. She was arrested and in response to it, the Montgomery black community launched a bus boycott. -
Little Rock Nine
Video About Little Rock Nine: The Little Rock Nine are a group of nine black students who were refused to enter Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansaw -
James Meredith
James Meredith became the first black student to go to the University of Mississippi. Violence and riots surrounding him forced President Kennedy to send 5,000 federal troops -
Martin Luther King Jr's I Have a Dream Speech
The Entire I Have a Dream Speech & Speech Info MLK Delivered a Speech where he wished for the racisim and segregation to end and for his "children" to be freed. This speech was therefore known as the I Have a Dream Speech. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
The Current President at the time, President Johnson, Signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The act does not allow any discrimination based on race, color, religon, or origin of birth, The act also allows the government to enforce desegregation. -
Voting Act of 1965
More Info: The President at the time, Lyndon B. Johnson (Also known as LBJ), signed the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which made it much easier for southern blacks to start voting, due to it restricting literacy tests and other Jim Crow Laws that blocked blacks from voting. -
MLK Jr Dies
Video About MLK's Death: Martin Luther King, at age 39, is shot as he stands on the balcony outside his hotel room. A racist named James Earl Ray is convicted of the crime.
