Danielle Hinz, Will Cunnington, Brenden Steiner P.6

By dhinz

  • Supreme Court ruled that every state had to offer equal educational opportunities

  • civil rights protest

    civil rights protest

    A group of cilvi rights activists protested outside the white house. Later that Summer they marched to the Lincloln Memorial to demand that the Ku Klux Klan be outlawed.

  • A permanent Fair Employment Practices Commision was established

    This was supported by Truman.
  • Committee on Civil Rights

    Committee on Civil Rights

    President Truman responded to protesters by creating the Committee on Civil Rights to help suggest federal solutions to these problems.
  • Truman ends segregation in the military

    Truman ends segregation in the military

    That same year, racial discrimintation in the hiring of federal employees was banned.
  • Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court case

    Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court case

  • Supreme court ruled that segregation in public schools was illegal

    Supreme court ruled that segregation in public schools was illegal

  • Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on the bus to a white passenger

    Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on the bus to a white passenger

    She was arrested. This led to a huge bus boycott.

  • The Supreme Court ruled that Montgomery's segregated bus system was illegal

  • In Little Rock, Arkansas, the school boad selected nine outstanding African American students to attend Central High School.

  • Ernest Green became the first African American student to graduate from Central High School.

  • Supreme Court ordered the University of Mississippi to accept James Meredith as its first African American student.