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Signed Treaty
Truman signs executive order, which 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 or color -
Supreme court
The supreme court rules on the landmark case brown V. Board of education of Top[eka Kans, Unanimously agreeing that segregations in public schools is unconstitutional -
Murders
fourteen year old chicagon Emmett till is visiting family in Mississippi when he is kidnapped, brutally beaten, shot, and dumped in the Tallahatchie river for allegedly whistling at a whit woman -
NAACP
NAACP memeber Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat at the front of the "colored section" of a buss to a white passenger. -
Martin Luther
Martin Luther King, Charles K. Steele, and Fred L. Shuttlesworth establish the Southern Christain leadership conference of which king is made the firt president -
4 black students
Four black students from North Carolina Agricultural begin a sit-in at a segregated wollworths lunch counter. Although they are refused service. -
Voulenteer
Over the spring an dsummer, student volunteers begin taking bus trips through the South to test oput new laws that prohibit segregation in interstate travel facilities, which includes buss and railway stations.