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Hattie McDaniel wins Academy Award
Hattie McDaniel was the first African American to win an Academy Award. She won it for her role in the great movie "Gone with the Wind." -
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Dr. Charles Drew becomes 1st African American surgeon
He was the first African American to gain a Medical Doctorate. He came up with the idea of blood transfusions. Saved many lives in world war 2. -
CORE sends 16 mne on the Journey of Reconcillaton
A two week long non violent protest of segregated buses in the Southern United States. -
Brown v. Board of Education- US Supreme Court outlaws racial segregation in schools.
Supreme Court declared segration of blacks and whites in public schools was unconstitutional. -
Rosa Parks and Montgomery Bus Boycott
Rosa Parks an active member of the NAACP, was on a Montegomery bus and refused to give her seat to a white man. She was arrested and started the Montgomery Bus Boycott -
Four Black students being sit-ins at lunch counters in Greensboro, NC
Four Black students walked in a lunch counter and asked for coffee and sat in the diner all day. The server refused to serve them at the 'white only' counter
