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US forms an African American air combat unit
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Jackie Robinson played his first game as a dodger. The first black proffessional baseball player.
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Supreme Court rules that State of Oklahoma and the University of Oklahoma could not deny admission based on race.
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President Harry S. Truman issued Executive order 9981 which ended segregation in the Armed Forces.
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Supreme Court banned the segregation of railroad dining cars.
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First black to challenge seperate but equal in bus segregation
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Landmark Supreme Court case that declared segrigation of schools unconstitutional.
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President Eigenhower signs the order which enforces a nondiscrimination policy in federal employment.
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Bans bus segregation in interstate travel.
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Protested the segregation of public transport. Led to Browder v. Gayle, which declared the segregation unconstitutional.
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Rosa Parks refuses to give up her bus seat to a white man and is arrested and put in jail.
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9 black students in Little Rock Arkansas were prevented from entereing the school by the Arkansas National Guard.
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This date is the start of teir voyage. The freedom riders were a group of civil rights activists that rode the busses into the segregated south to promote desegregation.
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MLK's big speach in front of the Lincoln Memorial at the March on Washington.
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Banned poll taxes.