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Integration of the Armed Forces.
Truman signed this executive order establishing the President's Committee on Equality of Treatment and Opportunity in the Armed Services, committing the government to integrate the segregated military. -
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas.
State-sanctioned segregation of public schools was a violation of the 14th amendment and was therefore unconstitutional. -
Emmett Till murder
Two Mississippians bludgeon and kill Emmett Till, a 14-year-old black boy, for whistling at a white woman; their acquittal and boasting of the atrocity spur the civil rights cause. -
Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery, Alabama bus in 1955. -
Central High School and the Little Rock Nine.
The Little Rock Nine enrolled at Little Rock Central High School, which until then had been all white. The students' effort to enroll was supported by the U.S. -
Greensboro Sit-ins.
Greensboro sit-in was a civil rights protest that started in 1960, when young African American students staged a sit-in at a segregated Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, and refused to leave after being denied service. -
Freedom Rides.
Freedom Riders were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated Southern United States in 1961. -
James Meredith and the integration of the University of Mississippi.
Riots erupted on the campus of the University of Mississippi in Oxford where locals, students, and committed segregationists had gathered to protest the enrollment of James Meredith, a black Air Force veteran attempting to integrate the all-white school. -
March on Washington, DC “I Have a Dream Speech.”
Have a Dream" is a public speech that was delivered by American civil rights activist and Baptist minister, Martin Luther King Jr., during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom -
16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham is bombed.
The kkk Bombed the 16th street church... -
John F. Kennedy assassination and Lyndon Johnson becomes President.
John f Kennedy was the running mate so when he was assaniated Johnson became the elected president -
Twenty Fourth Amendment.
24th Amendment to the Constitution, prohibiting any poll tax in elections for federal officials. -
Three Civil Rights workers are murdered in Mississippi.
The murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner, also known as the Freedom Summer murders, the Mississippi civil rights workers' murders or the Mississippi Burning murders, refers to three activists who were abducted and murdered in Philadelphia, -
Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin -
Malcolm X is killed.
Assassinated by the rivals Black Muslims -
Selma to Montgomery March.
The Selma to Montgomery marches were three protest marches, held in 1965, along the 54-mile highway from Selma, Alabama, to the state capital of Montgomery. -
Voting Rights Act of 1965.
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 removed barriers to black enfranchisement in the South, banning poll taxes, literacy tests, and other measures that effectively prevented African Americans from voting. -
Black Panther Party is founded.
The Black Panther Party, originally the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense, was a Black Power political organization founded by college students Bobby. -
Martin Luther King is assassinated.
James Earl Ray was an American criminal who assassinated Martin Luther King Jr. at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4, 1968. -
Civil Rights Act of 1968.
Expanded on previous acts and prohibited discrimination concerning the sale, rental, and financing of housing based on race, religion, national origin, sex, (and as amended) handicap and family status.