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Harry Truman Signs Executive Order
President Truman signed the executive order saying that segregation in armed forces was outlawed. -
Brown VS Board of Education
The Supreme Court rules that segregation in schools is unconstitutional. GA and alot of the other states in the sou8th didnt follow this rule immediately because they set no time limit in which this had to be done. -
Rosa Parks Bus Boycott
Rosa Parks, NAACP member, refuses to give up her seat in the front of the bus to a white person. Following her arrest, there began a bus boycott that went on for over a year, including buss boycotts in Georgia. -
SCLC was established
MLK, Charles Steele, and Fred Shuttlesworth established the Southern Christian Leadrship Conference.This was a big part of organizing the Civil Rights Movement andhelped keep nonviolence. Many residents of GA were involved in this organization. -
Sit-Ins begin
In Greensboro, NC, 4 students started a sit-in at Woolworths where they sat at the "Whites Only" counter and protested nonviolently. These sit-ins statred happening all opver the United States, including GA. -
The SNCC is founded
The Student Non-violent Coordinating Comitee was founded to give students more of a voice than the SCLC. Students felt that the adults had more of a say in the SCLC and they wanted to have more of a stand as a younger population. -
Freedom Riders
Student Volunteers began to take rides in buses across the country where blacks and whites were mixed throughout the bus. Freedom riders often were beaten, killed, or protested against just for what they believed in. -
March on Washington
200,000 people gather in Washington D.C. to listen to Civil Rights activist, Martin Luther King Jr. give his famous "I have a dream.." speech. -
MLK Killed
Standing on his hotel balcony, civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated by James Earl Ray, a racist.
