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A young African American boy is kidnapped tortured and hung all bcs of the color of his skin. -
First African American to debut in the MLB -
Truman places a policy that desegregates the armed forces allowing fair and equal treatment to African American soldiers. -
Rosa parks an active activist sat down on a bus and refused to give up her seat for a white man leading to her arrest -
The Montgomery bus boycott was a collective effort in no longer riding the bus causing the company to lose thousands of dollars leading to the change of rules and laws in regard to the seating on the bus -
was the first time since the reconstruction the president signed a act to influence the civil rights movement -
The Little Rock Nine were a group of nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957. Their enrollment was followed by the Little Rock Crisis, in which the students were initially prevented from entering the racially segregated school by Orval Faubus, the Governor of Arkansas -
A retired black air force member attempted to integrate into the all white school of oxford causing a hoard of people many committed segregationist -
5,000 school students started to march in Birmingham Alabama, to speak to the mayor about segregation in their city. -
The Governor of Alabama attempts to keep his promise to stop desegregation by standing in the door way of the school -
megar was an active civil rights leader who was returning home after meeting with NAACP when he was shoot in the back by Byron De La Beckwith -
hundreds of not thousands of people marched on the capitol up to the Lincoln memorial and listened to Martin Luther king JR give his I have a dream speech -
A bomb was detonated at the 16th Street baptist church being a clear hate crime against the mainly African American community -
Freedom summer is a mass peaceful protest where they tried to get as many African Americans to register to vote as possible -
The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense (BPP) was founded in October 1966 in Oakland, California by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale