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The Founding of Monroeville AL
Monroe County was founded in 1815 on lands ceded by local Native American tribes. -
Harper Lee
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President Harry Truman established the President’s Committee on Civil Rights.
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The President’s Committee on Civil Rights released To Secure These Rights, a report that condemned segregation, called for the integration of American society, and made numerous recommendations for the protection of civil rights.
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n Shelly v. Kraemer, the Supreme Court reinforced the Fourteenth Amendment’s guarantee of “equal protection of the laws" when it ruled that state courts could not enforce racially restrictive housing covenants.
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he US Armed Forces were desegregated by President Truman’s Executive Order 9981,
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Dwight D. Eisenhower was elected president of the United States
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Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a city bus to a white man and was arrested.
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The Montgomery bus boycott began on December 6, 1955,
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The Civil Rights Act of 1957 created the US Commission on Civil Rights to investigate voter restrictions.
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In a close election, Democrat John F. Kennedy was elected for president.
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President John F. Kennedy was shot and killed by assassin Lee Harvey Oswald while riding in a motorcade through Dallas, Texas
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President Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Title VII of the act banned discrimination based on sex, race, color, religion, or national origin.
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The Voting Rights Act of 1965 prohibited voting test requirements for African Americans and allowed for federal election supervision in places where African Americans had been prevented from voting.
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Martin Luther King Jr. was shot and killed by James Earl Ray outside his room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee.
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Alabama Legislature
In 1997 the Alabama Legislature designated Monroeville and Monroe County the "Literary Capital of Alabama."
