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pleasey vs ferguson
the case set up seperate but equal ideas for school -
CORE is formed
The Congress of Racial Equality was formed. -
Discrimination is banned
President Roosevelt banned discrimination in defence industries. -
Jackie Robinson joins the Dodgers
ackie Robinson reached a milestone in the civil rights movement by becoming the first black baseball player. -
Military Desegrigation
President Truman used his executive power desegrigate the army. -
President Truman signs Executive Order 9981
The order 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, color, religion, or national origin." -
Brown vs Board of Education
It states that the seperation of schools based on only the factor of ones skin color is unconstitoinal. -
all laws establishing segregated schools to be unconstitutional
May 17, 1954. Tied to the 14th Amendment, the decision declared all laws establishing segregated schools to be unconstitutional, and it called for the desegregation of all schools throughout the nation -
Emmett Till
Emmett Till was visiting family in Mississippi when he is kidnapped, brutally beaten, shot, and dumped in the Tallahatchie River for allegedly whistling at a white woman. Two white men, J. W. Milam and Roy Bryant, are arrested for the murder and acquitted by an all-white jury. -
Rosa Parks
NAACP member Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat at the front of the "colored section" of a bus to a white passenger, defying a southern custom of the time. In response to her arrest the Montgomery black community launches a bus boycott, which will last for more than a year, until the buses are desegregated -
Bus Segragtion ended
On this day there was no more seperating of the two races on a public bus and they were able to mix. -
The Southern Christian Leadership Conference is formed
Martin Luther King, Charles K. Steele, and Fred L. Shuttlesworth establish the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, of which King is made the first president. The SCLC becomes a major force in organizing the civil rights movement and bases its principles on nonviolence and civil disobedience. -
Civil Rights Act of 1957
Allowed more powerful investigations of the violations of civil rights to increase. Giving U.S Attorneies greater power to protect African American Rights -
Sit in's
Four African Americans ordered doughnuts and coffee at a lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina. The waitress refused to serve them because the resteraunt only served whites. The students then sat at the counter and refused to leave until the resteraunt closed. This was the start of a form of protests called "sit-ins" -
Martin Luther King Jr.'s Assassination
King was shot while standing on his motel balcony. He died shortly later at the hospital. He was thirty-nine years old. James Earl Ray was , a white ex-convict was charged with his murder.
