Jack Berlinski, Tanner Bailey, Chris Dahm period 4

By jberlinski

  • Protesting outside the White

    In the summer of 1946 a group of civil rights activists protested outside the White House.

  • President Truman creates Committee on Civil Rights

    In December 1946 President Truman responded to the pressure. He created the Committee on Civil Rights.

  • Heman Sweatt applies to a white school

    On december 11, 1946 an African american named Heman Sweatt applied to the law at the University of texas, which did not accept black students.

  • Ending segregation in the military

    In July of 1948 President Truman ended segregation in the military.

  • Supreme Court admits Sweatt

    On June 5, 1950 the supreme court said that the university of texas had to let Sweatt in.

  • Supreme Court outlaws segregation in public schools

    In May 1954 the supreme court ruled in the brown case that segregation in public schools was illegal.

  • Supreme Court desegregates schools

    In 1955 the Supreme Court desegregates public schools "with all deliberate speed"

  • Rosa Parks

    African American seamstress Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white passanger. She was quickly arrested.

  • Segregated buses illegal

    In November 1956 the Supreme Court ruled that Montgomery's segregated bus system was illegal.

  • Daisy Bates

    Daisy Bates, the president of Arkansas NAACP, arranged rides to the high school for the students on September 4.

  • 9 outstanding students

    The school board selected nine outstanding African Americans to attend Central High School.

  • Ernest Green

    In May 1958 Ernest Green became the first African American student to graduate from Cntral High School.