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Civil Rights Movement

By faulknjo
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    Civil Rights Movement

  • Truman signs executive order 9981

    Truman signs executive order 9981
    "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, color, religion, or national origin."

  • Brown v. Board of Education Ruling

    Brown v. Board of Education Ruling
    Supreme Court ruled that segregation in schools was unconstitutional

  • Kidnapping of Emmett Till

    Kidnapping of Emmett Till
    A kid named Emmett Till is kidnapped, brutally beaten, shot, and then dumped into the Tallahatchie River because he alledgedly "whistled at a white women." The two white men who did this later boasted about it in a Look magazine interview. The case became a cause célèbre, meaning a widespread controversy, for the civil rights movement.

  • Rosa Parks

    Rosa Parks
    Rosa Parks refused to give up her sest on the bus and this began a movement to desegregate buses.

  • Buses Are desegregated

    Buses Are desegregated
    Buses were desegregated, allowed for blacks and whites to ride the same bus.

  • Little Rock Crisis

    Little Rock Crisis
    A "crisis" developed when Little Rock School Board allowed 9 black students to go to an all white school. Governor of Arkansas blocked them from going in, Pres. Eisenhower sent in troops to get them in.

  • Greensboro Sit-ins

    Greensboro Sit-ins
    Began with 4 NC A&T students. It was a non-violent protest. Would not leave until they were served. Led to the segregation of Woolworth's.

  • March On Washington

    Organized by the SCLC and SNCC ot bring attention to need for Civil Rights Law.

  • The 24th Amendment was added to the Constitution

    The 24th Amendment was added to the Constitution
    The 24th Amendment was added to the US Constitution, the amendment abloished poll taxes that made it diffucult for poor blacks to vote.

  • Civil Rights Bill proposed

    Civil Rights Bill proposed
    A law was proposed to ban against discrimination based on races, the bill was stuck in a filibuster in the senate

  • Voting Rights Act of 1965

    Voting Rights Act of 1965
    In the 1965, the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was passed. The act made it illegal to use discrimination in elections. The Act also banned literacy test. The act also alllowed the federal government to step in where states blocked people from voting