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"The Flying Forties"
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Executive Order 9981
Truman Library - Executive Order 9981Following this federal order, the Armed Forces were now desegregated, and allowed for African-Americans to receive fair and equal treatment. -
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The Fabulous Fifties
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Hernandez v. Texas
HERNANDEZ V. STATE OF TEXASThis ruling favored the 14th Admendment in the context of defending racial groups beyond that of Caucasian and African-American. -
Integration in the education system
Bolling v. Sharpe | CasebriefsBrown v Board of Education National Historic SiteBoth cases led to the desegration of the schooling system and overthrew the Plessy v. Ferguson decision. -
Executive Order 10590
NTEU Black History Month:Executive OrdersWith this federal ruling, Dwight D. Eisenhower made sure that racial groups could not be discriminated in a work environment. -
Racist Georgia
Georgia Board of Education fires hundreds of teachers supporting education integration. -
Georgia won't be prgoressive.
All Black Teaching members of the NAACP are fired by Georgia's Board of Education. -
Rosa Park's Bravery
Rosa Parks Bus - The Story Behind the BusRosa Parks refuses to give up her seat on a bus, thus igniting the year-long bus boycott. -
The conflict about integration.
Governors of Georgia, Mississippi, South Carolina and Virginia agree to block integration of schools. -
Florida & Boycotts
Tallahassee black community boycotts buses for desegregation, 1956-57The Tallahassee, Florida bus boycott begins -
Founding of the ACMHR
The Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights is created in Birmingham, Alabama. -
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The Swinging Sixties
This is the 1960's decade. -
MLK meets Senator John F. Kennedy
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TRANSPORTATION DESEGRATED!
www.nps.gov/nhl/themes/Public Accom.pdfSegregated transportation facilities is ruled unconstitutional by U.S. Supreme Court. -
Religion is in the cross-streams of hate.
Two black churches used by SNCC for voter registration meetings are burned in Sasser, Georgia. -
Executive Order 11063
JFK personally desegrated Government Funded Housing. -
Letter From Birmingham
Letter from a Birmingham Jail [King, Jr.]King's Letter from Birmingham Jail is completed. -
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Civil Rights Act of 1964
Discrimination in a workplace could not be made from color, race, ethnicity, or relgion of that individual. -
NOBEL PEACE PRIZE
Martin Luther King Jr. - BiographyMartin Luther King, Jr. is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his active duty in the Civil Rights Movement. -
Malcom X no more
Malcolm X is shot to death in Manhattan, New York, supposedly by the Nation of Islam! -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Our Documents - Voting Rights Act (1965)Signed by Lyndon B. Johnson, this took away literacy test, poll taxes, and other forms and means of restrictions in voting for racial minorities. -
The Detroit riot.
The Detroit Riots of 1967: EventsThe Detroit riot erupts in Detroit, Michigan, unnecessarily killing, injuring, and arresting many individuals, for their celebration for the returning Vietnam Veterans. The cause of this is the club's non-lincenseship. -
THE ASSASSINATION OF MLK!
Assassination of Martin Luther King JrDr. Martin Luther King is shot and killed in Memphis, Tennessee by James Earl Ray.
