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Civil Rights Movement
Lincoln runs for president with the political promise of freeing the slaves. He wins the election and institutes the 13'th amendment freeing the slaves. -
Lincoln frees the slaves
Lincoln runs for president with the political promise of freeing the slaves. He wins the election and institutes the 13'th amendment freeing the slaves. -
NAACP is founded
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is founded by W.E.B Du Bois. Its mission is “to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate racial hatred and racial discrimination”.[4] Its name, retained in accordance with tradition, uses the once common term colored people. -
Brown vs Board of education decision
Brown v. Board of Education was a landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court that declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students unconstitutional. The decision overturned the Plessy v. Ferguson. -
Rosa Parks incident
Rosa Parks refused to obey and stand up for a white man in the bus in the colored section after the white
section was filled. She was arrested, tried and convicted. That started the Montgomery bus boycott, it
lasted 381 days with almost 50,000 black supporting it making it 90% of black in Montgomery. That reduced
the bus revenue by 80%. It ended when the federal court ordered Montgomery buses desegregated in Nov.
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Little Rock Nine
The Little Rock Nine were a group of African-American students who were enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957. The ensuing Little Rock Crisis, in which the students were initially prevented from entering the racially segregated school is considered to be one of the most important events in the African-American Civil Rights Movement. -
Sit Ins
Sit-in is a nonviolent tactic that was used to protest against the segregation.
The best known is in North Carolina where 4 black students were in Woolworth store. They purchased small
things, after they sat down at the launch counter where they asked to be s(erved. Many students supported this sit-in, in more than 10 cities where they did the same.
(All the store policy was not to serve blacks) this sit in inspired many other and maybe more important sit-
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Birmingham Jail Letter
The Letter from Birmingham Jail or Letter, is an open letter written on April 16, 1963, by Martin Luther King, Jr., an American civil rights leader. King wrote the letter from the city jail in Birmingham, Alabama, where he was confined after being arrested for his part in the Birmingham campaign, a planned non-violent protest conducted by the Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights. -
March on Washington
it was on a Wednesday the 28 august 1963 with MLK in front, this day is known for Martin Luther King speech “I have a dream”
There was about 200.000 (police) - 300.000 (organizer) people where 80% were black and the rest
were white. The march was to raise the issue of discriminating black people on jobs and freedom.
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Civil Rights Act of 1968
The Civil Rights Act of 1968, also known as the Indian Civil Rights Act of 1968, was a landmark piece of legislation in the United States that provided for equal housing opportunities regardless of race, creed, or national origin. -
Martin Luther Kings birthday is declared a holiday
Under mayors Tom Bradley, Maynard Jackson, and Coleman Young, the cities of Los Angeles, Atlanta, and Detroit each declare Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday a holiday -
The first Black History month
Black History Month is celebrated for the first time. -
Jesse Jackson runs for president
Jesse Jackson is almost elected president. -
Million Man March
The Million Man March, considered one of the most important modern events of black American civil rights, was a gathering of social activists, en masse, held on and around the National Mall in Washington, D.C. African American men from across the United States converged on Washington in an effort to “convey to the world a vastly different picture of the Black male”[1] and to unite in self-help and self-defense against economic and social ills plaguing the African American community. -
Barack Obama is elected President
Barack Obama is the first African-American to be elected president of the United States.
