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This became a sight for African Americans Military history, training Black officers during WWI. -
The NAACP played a big role in establishing civil rights and boycotts. -
Jackie Robinson became the first Black player in Major League Baseball, playing for the Brooklyn Dodgers. -
Edna Griffin led a sit-in against segregation which led to a successful lawsuit against the company. -
President Harry S. Truman desegregated the U.S. Armed Forces. -
Portland’s Civil Rights Landmarks has a lot of important landmarks in the civil rights like the Mount Olives Baptist Church. -
Emmett Till was murdered at age 14 for allegedly whistling at a white woman. -
This was influenced by Rosa Park’s arrest, which led to Supreme Court banning segregation on public buses. -
Federal troops implement segregation of Little Rock Central High School in Arkansas -
Members of the “Washington Freedom Riders Committee” hang signs that protested against segregation from bus windows in Washington D.C. -
Was a desegregation campaign that wanted to eliminate racial segregation in the city. -
James Meredith became the first Black student to enroll and violent protests happened which resulted in 2 dead and 300 injured. -
Movement made by Southern Christian Leadership Conference to make people see the integration attempts of African Americans -
Alabama Governor George Wallace attempted to physically block two Black students from enrolling at the University of Alabama. -
KKK members bombed a Black church in Birmingham Alabama, killing four Black girls. -
Movement to increase the number of Black voters. -
Senator Storm Thurmond of South Carolina tried to stop the bill with a 24 hour speech against it. -
President Lyndon prohibited discrimination in public places and provided for the integration of schools. -
Peaceful civil rights marchers were brutally attacked by Alabama state troopers and local police as they tried to cross the Edmund Pettit bridge in Selma and this was put out over national television. -
The Voting Rights Amendments protects everyone’s right to vote and does not allow discrimination -
Prohibited discrimination based on gender, race, and religion in sales like houses, etc. -
A federal law that prohibits gender based discrimination in education programs. -
President Ronald Reagan signed the bill making MLK Day a national holiday. -
The U.S. government formally apologized for the internment of Japanese Americans during WWII. -
This gave families job-protected leave for family or medical reasons. -
California pass3 proposition 187, which wanted to deny undocumented immigrants public service. This was met with mass protests and was later overturned. -
This banned affirmative action in public employment, education, and contracting. -
The Supreme Court upheld affirmative action in university admissions, affirming that race can be one of many factors considered. -
Spread federal hate crime laws to include crimes based on gender, disabilities, etc. -
This was formed after the acquittal of George Zimmerman in the killing of Trayvon Martin.