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An executive order issued on July 26, 1948, that abolished racial discrimination in the United States Armed Forces and eventually led to the end of segregation in the services.
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14 year old Emmett Till was accused of whistling at Carolyn Bryant, a white woman who was a cashier at a grocery store. Four days later, Till was kidnapped, beaten, shot in the head, and dumped in a river.
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In Montgomery, Alabama, Parks refused to obey the bus drivers order to give up her seat in the colored section to a white passenger, after the white section was filled.
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Four black freshmen at North Carolina A&T State University, took seats at the segregated lunch counter of F. W. Woolworth's in Greensboro, North Carolina. They were refused service and sat peacefully until the store closed.
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Formed to capitalize on the success of a surge of sit-ins in Southern college towns, where black students refused to leave restaurants in which they were denied service based on their race.
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13 African-Americans and white civil rights activist went on freedom rides. it was a series of bus trips to protest against segregation in interstate bus terminals.
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Dr. Martin Luther Kind writes a letter from Birmingham jail after he was arrested for peacefully demonstrating against segregation and racial in Birmingham, Alabama.
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more than 200,000 Americans of all races gathered in Washington, D.C., for a political rally focused on jobs and freedom. organized by a bunch of civil rights and religious groups.
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A bomb explodes during Sunday morning in the 16th street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama killing four black school girls.
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The U.S. ratified the 24th Amendment to the Constitution, prohibiting any poll tax in elections for federal officials.
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In New York, African American nationalist and religious leader Malcom X is assassinated by a rival black muslim while addressing his organization of Afro-American Unity at the Audubon Ballroom in Washington Heights.
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Martin Luther King Jr. led thosands of nonviolent demonstrators to the steps of the capitol in Montgomery, Alabama to win the voting rights of African American in the south.
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orginally known as the the black party for self defense.The Panthers eventually developed into a Marxist revolutionary group that called for the arming of all African Americans.
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Martin Luther King Jr. is shot at a hotel in Memphis, Tennessee. He was shot one time by James Earl Ray in his neck and died an hour later at St. Joseph's Hospital.
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This act prohibited discrimination concerning the sale, rental and financing of housing based on race, religion, national origin and sex.
