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Rosa Parks Bus Boycott
All the seats were full on the so the white man without a seat asked the first row of the “colored” section to stand up se he could sit. 3 of them did and Rosa Parks refused
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Little Rock Nine
9 Black students enrolled in the all white high school Central High School. On the first day classes began, the Arkansas National Guard was called in to block the students from entering the school. Later that month Dwight Eisenhower sent in troops to escorh the students into the school -
Ruby Bridges
Now ruby was just a little girl when she was selected to become the first ever African American in a white school. Others did not like this idea so they would try and stop her from getting there so a police escort was needed for a 6-year-old girl to attend school, that is how bad it was at that time. -
Brimingham Campaign
Brimingham was known as the most segregated city in the US. MLK led people to peacefully protest here to show the resolve of the black community, and to push forward the civil rights movement. In responese multiple people were arrested including MLK for breaking the laws of segregation -
March on Washington
250,000 people gather and march to and on the Lincoln Memorial. This was carefully planned and orchastrated by people such as MLK and Roosevelt. Speeches were given by Randolph, Rustin, Roy Wilkins, John Lewis, and most famously Martin Luther King Jr -
I Have a Dream Speech
He gave this speech because prior to this they had just marched upon Washington because they were not getting enough Ecuality in every aspect of being a human being. Dr. King then said that this speech was only going to be 4 min but then was 16 min. It truly was amazing -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
prohibits discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex or national origin. Provisions of this civil rights act forbade discrimination on the basis of sex, as well as race in hiring, promoting, and firing. -
Bloody Sunday
On March 7, 1965, the civil rights movement in Alabama took an especially violent turn as 600 peaceful demonstrators participated in the Selma to Montgomery march to protest the killing of Black civil rights activist Jimmie Lee Jackson by a white police officer and to encourage legislation to enforce the 15th amendment. -
MLK Assassination
On this date Martin Luther King was shot in the head by the sniper James Earl Ray in the Lorraine motel in Memphis, Tennesse. James was caught and accused of murder. James claimed he was part of a bigger conspiracy although that is yet to be discovered. -
Fair House Act
The Fair Housing Act became law on April 11, 1968, just days after King’s assassination. It prevented housing discrimination based on race, sex, national origin and religion. It was also the last legislation enacted during the civil rights era -
Signing of the Equal Employment Opportunity Act of 1972
In 1972, the Equal Employment Opportunity Act was passed by Congress as well as the signing of the Title IX which stated that no person in the United States, based on their sex or color, shall be excluded from participation in, be denied, or be subjected to discrimination under any educational program. The Equal Employment Opportunity Act addressed discrimination against African Americans and other minorities in the workplace as well as to hire new employees. -
Shirley Chrisholm
Shirley Chrisholm graduated from college she began working as a teacher's aide at the Mt. Calvary Child Care Center in Harlem. She would work at the center in a teaching from 1946 to 1953. She was famous along with being the first African American in congress. She also ran for president on January 25th 1972. She ran against George Wallace and lost. -
John Lewis
John Lewis became a director of the voter education program and President Ccarter put Lewis in charge of ACTION. which included the peace corps and VISTA. Lewis became a councilman in 1981. In 1975 Lewis was awarded the MLKJ, Nonviolent Peace Prize. -
Oprah Winfrey Starts a Talk Show
Oprah Winfrey Was the first African American women to host a talk show. Her first show aired on September 8th 1986. Her show has 25 seasons, its also the highest ranked talk show in American television history. Her last Show aired on May 25th 2011 ranking the highest in American history. -
Walter McMillian
Walter Mcmillian, born October 27 1941, was a black pulpwood worker who was falsely accused of murder and sentenced to death. In 1993, after Mcmillian had served six years on Alabama's death row, the Court of Criminal Appels reversed the lower court decision and ruled that he had been wrongfully convicted. This controversial case received national awareness in the fall of 1992. Mcmillian was arrested in June 1987, was brought to Alabama's Death Row, and was held there for 15 months. -
Tori Morriosn
Tori Morrison was born February 18th 1931 in Lorain Ohio. Her parents inspired her with their heritage they taught her about racism in American towards African Americans. She wrote a book called “Beloved” the book “examines the destructive legacy of slavery as it chronicles the life of a Black woman named Sethe, from her pre-Civil War days as a slave in Kentucky to her time in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1873." She later would receive a Nobel Prize for literature in 1993 -
Barack Obama Becomes President
Barack Obama started his term on January 20th 2009. He made history being the first African American president in American History. He was the 44th president and served 2 terms which is 8 years. One of the biggest things he did was sign a landmark bill during his first 2 years in office. -
BLM Movement Established
BLM is a social movement formed in the US in 2013, dedicated to fighting racism and anti-black violence, especially in the form of police brutality. BLM was cofounded in 2013 as an online movement by three Black community organizers. BLM was formed after George Zimmerman, a man of German and Peruvian descent, killed a young black man named Trayvon Martin. Since then, BLM has once again come alive during 2020 when a white male cop killed a black man named George Floyd. -
Kamala Harris Elected as Vice President
Born and raised in California, Harris was elected district attorney of San Fransisco, then in 2010, she was elected Attorney General of California, and was reelected the same position in 2014. Harris then served as the junior United States senator from California from 2017 to 2021. In 2020, Joe Biden choose Harris to be vice president making her the first woman to become vice president of the United States. -
George Floyd's Death
George Floyds death was a big deal in 2020. Causing riots in Minneapolis and other cities. It got so bad that cities started to have curfews because of the riots. George Floyds death was the straw that broke the camel's back. African Americans have faced police brutality before but this was the worst one in our recent history. George Floyds death was a movement to change how police treated African American people.