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The NAACP won several cases that challenged the constitionality of segregration
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Heman Sweatt applies to the University of Texas, an all white school. The state instead builds an all-black school. However, a supreme court ruling decides the new school does not have equal facilities, so Heman is admitted to UoT.
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Truman forms the Committee on Civil Rights in response by protests of returning veterans. He promises to 'secure these rights'
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Based on the reccomendations of the committee, Truman orders segregration to be outlawed in the military.
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The Supreme Court rules that "Seperate is inherantly unequal" and bans segregration. However, state governments are not easily budged to actually enforce the ruling.
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The Supreme Court strengthens it's ruling, ordering desegregration 'with all deliberate speed'.
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Rosa Parks famous bus arrest case incites the NAACP to help plan a boycott of the Montgomery, Alabama bus system.
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A Supreme Court case rules that Montgomery's segregrated mass tranist is illegal, bringing Martin Luther King Jr. to the forefront of the Civil Rights Movement
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Little Rock school district in Arkansas, is one of the first to admit students. It starts with nine students to be admitted to Central High School. They are faced with intense bullying and threats from the state, but 8 of the 9 perservere and graduate.
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Ernest Green, one of the Little Rock 9, becomes the first African American to earn a diploma at an integrated school.
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Arkansas Governor Faubus, a segregration adovcate, shuts down the public schools of Little Rock.
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A Federal order restarts the Little Rock public schools after an entire year.
