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Truman signs
Truman signs Executive Order 9981, in which it 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." It started huge emotional changes on many people. -
Schools are Changing
The Supreme Court came to the conclusion in the Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, that it is not alright to have segregation in public schools. Segregation violated the Fourteenth Amendment. -
Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks is in the southern region riding the bus and asked to move to the colored section of the bus, but she refuses. Her refusal started the bus boycott that last about a year. -
The Greenboro Sit-In
On February 1, 1960, four students from the Agricultural and Technical College of North Carolina sat down at the lunch counter inside the Woolworth's store at 132 South Elm Street in Greensboro, North Carolina. The men, later known as the Greensboro Four, ordered coffee. Following store policy, the lunch counter staff refused to serve the African American men at the "whites only" counter and the store's manager asked them to leave. -
Entering Schools
James Meredith becomes the first black student to enroll at the University of Mississippi. Violence and riots around the incident became to crazy causing President Kennedy to send 5,000 federal troops to Mississippi. -
Jail Time
Martin Luther King is arrested and jailed during anti-segregation protests in Birmingham, Ala.; he writes his seminal "Letter from Birmingham Jail," arguing that individuals have the moral duty to disobey unjust laws. -
Another one bites the dust
Mississippi's NAACP field secretary, 37-year-old Medgar Evers, is murdered outside his home. Byron De La Beckwith is tried twice in 1964, both trials ended as mis-trials. Thirty years later he is convicted for murdering Evers. -
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COFO
The Council of Federated Organizations (COFO), a network of civil rights groups that includes CORE and SNCC, launches a large effort to register black voters during the Freedom Summer. -
The Selma MArch
the SCLC and MLK choose Selma, Alabama as the official focal point for their campaign for voting rights. Jim Clark was the sheriff that tried to prevent the Afican Americans from voting. -
Malcolm X
Malcolm was murder because he broke with the Nation of Islam, but he continued to criticize the group. His beliefs were strong and inspired other to take pride in their culture. -
Voting Right of 1965
The House passed the voting right by a land slide. Sent people out to register voters, because other places would refuse to help African Americans. -
The King Is Down
As Martin Luther King is giving a speech in Memphis, Ten on the balcony of the motel he is shot. He was shot by James Earl Ray, MLK dies at age 39.
