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On July 26, 1948 President Truman signed the Executive Order. This allowed equality of treatment and opportunities in the Armed Service and segregated military.
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Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kans. was a case that declared state laws that separate schools for black and whites was unconstitutional.
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NAACP member Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat at the front of the "colored section" of a bus to a white passenger.
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Vickie went to Spotswood Elementary School in Harrisonburg, VA during 1959-1964. In 1959 Vickie was in 1st grade and during that time African American families lived in a certain part of town when I was growing up and went to a separate school, Lucy Simms Elementary.
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Martin Luther King is arrested and jailed during anti-segregation protests in Birmingham, Ala.
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200,000 people join the March on Washington. Congregating at the Lincoln Memorial.
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The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was a law that outlawed discrimination base on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. This was signed by President Johnson.
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While in middle school Vickie remember when desegregation occurred in Harrisonburg and the African American children were integrated into our classrooms. She was brought up in a Christian home and where she was taught that we are all God’s children no matter of skin color.
