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President Truman signs excutive order.
President Truman signed exective order. Everyone in the armed services is treaty equaly. Everyone no matter their race, religion were given equal rights. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rZkZHqNLKw -
Supreme court rules Brown v. Board of education.
Supreme court ruled that segragating schools is unconstitutional. Meaning that segragated schools were no more. And that whites and blacks were put into the same schools. -
Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks is a African American civil rights activist. She refuse to give up her seat to a white man on the public bus.She got arreseted for it. -
Little Rock Nine
Nine black students enrolled at an all white central high school in Little Rock, Arkansas. They had it hard by getting theats, and bullied. And the state national guard was sent in to make sure they did not go to school, but then the U.S. national guard steped in making sure they got to go. -
Greensboro NC
North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College had a sit in at a segregated Woolworth's lunch counter. They were trying to get treated equally in public places. It worked in the end. -
Jame Merdith
Jame Merdith becomes the first black man to enroll into the University of Mississippi. Violence happened and cause President Kennedy to send in troops. -
Martin Luther King is arrested
Martin Luther king was arrested and jailed for protesting in Birmingham. This was during anti segragation protests. -
Jackson Miss
Jackson Miss Mississippi's NAACP field secretary. He was 37 year old. He was murderd outside his home -
March on Washington
200,000 people march on washington meeting Martin luther king at the Linclon memorial. This is where Martin Luther King gave his I have a Dream speech. -
Sixthteenth Baptists street
Four young girls Denise McNair, Cynthia Wesley, Carole Robertson, and Addie Mae Collins attended church when a bomb went off. This was a regular civil rights meeting place. -
24 Admendment
The 24th Amendment abolishes the poll tax. The poll tax was a qualification to voting. It got abolished and made it easier for blacks to vote. -
civil rights act of 1964
President Johnson signs the civil rights act of 1964. Gives the federal goverment the power to enforce desegragation. -
Malcom X assasination
Malcom X is assasinated. The assailants are members of the Black Muslim faith which he had recently abandoned in favor of orthodox Islam. -
Selma
A march to Montgomery in support of voting rights. But they are stopped at the Pettus Bridge by a police blockade. Some were beaten, and badly injured. -
Voting rights act of 1965
Congress passes the voting rights act of 1965.This made it easier for southeren blacks to vote.
