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Executive Order 9981
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Brown V. Board of Education
The Supreme Court ruled that the doctrine of "Seperate but Equal" had no place in the education system. However the road to desegregation was just starting. -
Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat
NAACP member Rosa Parks, breaks southern custom and refuses to give up her seat. She is arrested and the Black Community comes to her side and starts the Bus Boycott. -
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Montgomery Bus Boycott
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Little Rock Nine
In Litle Rock Arkansas the first attempt at desegregation in schools is attemeped.The Governor of Arkansas blocked the entrance to the school so the nine black students could not enter. Eventually President Eisenhower called in the 101st Airborne to escort the students safely around the school. -
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Birmingham Jail
MLK Jr. is arrested and he writes his famous Letters from Birmingham Jail posted here http://www.uscrossier.org/pullias/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/king.pdf. -
I Have a Dream
Martin Luther King gives his most famous speech ever and one of the most important in US History in front of the statue of Lincoln who faught for freeing the slaves. -
Civil Rights act of 1964
Signed by President Johnson gave power to the Federal Government to enforce desegregation laws. -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Congress passes this bill making it much easier for Southern Blacks to vote. Abolished literacy tests, poll taxes and other requirements that were created to keep blacks away from voting. -
End of Civil Disobedience
Martin Luther King Jr. is shot dead by James Earl Ray. Many see this as the end of Peaceful Prostests and the new movement led by The Black Panthers ushers in the young generation.
