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1948-Integration of the Armed Forces.
Executive Order 9981 was issued on July 26, 1948, by President Harry S. This executive order abolished discrimination " on basis of race, color, religion or national origin" in the United States Armed Forces. -
1954-Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas.
Was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court ruled that U.S. state laws establishing racial segregation in public schools are unconstitutional, even if the segregated schools are otherwise equal in quality. -
1955-Emmett Till murder
Emmett Till, a 14-year-old African boy, was murdered in a racist attack that shocked the nation and provided a catalyst for the emerging civil rights movement. Till was accused of harassing a local white woman. -
Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott
Rosa Parks helped initiate the civil rights movement in the United States when she refused to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery, Alabama bus in 1955. Her actions caused to inspire leaders of the local Black community. -
1957-Central High School and the Little Rock Nine.
Were a group of nine black students who enrolled at a formerly all-white Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. Their attendance at the school was a test of Brown vs Education. -
1960-Greensboro Sit-ins
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. -
1961-Freedom Rides
A series of political protests against segregation by Blacks and whites who rode buses together through the American South in 1961. Outside Anniston, Alabama, one of their buses was burned, and in Birmingham, several dozen whites attacked the rides only two blocks from the sheriff's office. -
1962-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. -
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 orders were murdered in Philadelphia, Mississippi in June 1964. The KKK was in a murderous mood. -
Malcolm X is killed
In New York City, Malcolm X, an African American nationalist, and religious leader is assassinated by rival Black Muslims while addressing his Organization of Afro- American Unity. Malcolm X was a man who fought for civil rights for people of color and Muslims. -
Selma to Montgomery March
Also called Semla March, a political march from Selma Alabama, to the state's capital. Together these events became a landmark in the American civil rights movement and directly led to the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. -
1965-Voting Rights Act of 1965
It outlawed the discriminatory voting practices adopted in many southern states after the Civil War. It enforce the fifteenth amendment to the Constitution was signed into law 95 years after the amendment was ratified. -
1966-Black Panther Party is founded
Was to patrol African American neighborhoods to protect residents from acts of police brutality. Was founded in Oakland, California, by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale. -
1968-Martin Luther King is assassinated
James Earl Ray was an American criminal who assassinated Martin Luther King Jr. Martin Luther King was a civil rights legend, in the mid-1950s, Dr. King led the movement to end segregation and counter prejudice in the United States through the means of peaceful protest. -
Civil Rights Act of 1968
Known as the Fair Housing Act, prohibits discrimination concerning the sale, rental, or financing of housing based on race, religion, national origin, and sex. This is also a landmark law in the United States signed into law by the United States President Lyndon B. Johnson during the King assassination riots.