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Walt Disney is born
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Niagara movement
W.E.B. DuBois founded the Niagara movement, a forerunner to the NAACP. The movement is formed in part as a protest to Booker T. Washington's policy of accommodation to white society; the Niagara movement embraces a more radical approach, calling for immediate equality in all areas of American life. -
Pinocchio
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Dumbo
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Bambi
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Song of the south
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Jackie Robinson
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Truman issues an executive order integrating the U.S. armed forces.
Although African Americans had participated in every major U.S. war, it was not until after World War II that President Harry S. Truman issues an executive order integrating the U.S. armed forces. -
Cinderella
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Malcolm X becomes a minister
Malcolm X becomes a minister of the Nation of Islam. Over the next several years his influence increases until he is one of the two most powerful members of the Black Muslims (the other was its leader, Elijah Muhammad). A black nationalist and separatist movement, the Nation of Islam contends that only blacks can resolve the problems of blacks. -
Brown v. Board of Education
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kans. declares that racial segregation in schools is unconstitutional (May 17). -
Rosa parks and Emmett Till
Rosa Parks
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Little Rock Nine
The Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), a civil rights group, is established by Martin Luther King, Charles K. Steele, and Fred L. Shuttlesworth (Jan.-Feb.) The little rock nine was blocked from entering a school. -
Sleeping Beauty
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One Hundred and one Dalmatians
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MLKJ
MLKJ is arrested for protests
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Black Panthers are founded
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MLKJ is assassinated
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Tuskegee Syphilis experiment ends
The infamous Tuskegee Syphilis experiment ends. Begun in 1932, the U.S. Public Health Service's 40-year experiment on 399 black men in the late stages of syphilis has been described as an experiment that "used human beings as laboratory animals in a long and inefficient study of how long it takes syphilis to kill someone." -
Robin Hood
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The Fox and the Hound
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The Little Mermaid
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Lion King
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Toy Story
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Finding Nemo
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First black president Barack Obama.
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The Princess and the Frog
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The Black Panther
