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Executive order 9981
Executive Order 9981 was an executive order issued on July 26, 1948, by President Truman. It abolished discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion or origin in the United States Armed Forces. -
The Murder of Emmet Till
In the summer of 1955, 14-year-old Emmett Till had gone on vacation from Chicago to Money, Mississippi. He was shopping at a store owned by Roy and Carolyn Bryant, and someone said he possibly whistled at Mrs. Bryant, a white woman. At some point around August 28, he was kidnapped, beaten, shot in the head, and was thrown into the Tallahatchie River. This caused social and legal awareness of discrimination.
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Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott
Four days before the boycott began, Rosa Parks, an African American woman, was arrested and fined for refusing to yield her bus seat to a white man. This ended up starting the Montgomery bus boycott. This event ended segregation in public transportation. https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/montgomery-bus-boycott -
Little Rock Nine
The Little Rock Nine are nine students that enrolled into an all white high school in Little Rock, Arkansas. They ended up getting in but the only way that they were not harassed and beaten was for president to Eisenhower to send in the 101st Airborne Division. The 101st Airborne then protected them through the school until they were finally excepted to go to school there. -
Civil Rights Act of 1957
The Civil Rights Act of 1957 was an act to provide intention to further securing and protecting the civil rights of persons within the jurisdiction of the United States. -
Governor George C Wallace stood in the door of the University of Alabama
Alabama governor George Wallace stands in the doorway of the University of Alabama's Foster Auditorium to block two black students from enrolling on June 11, 1963 -
16th Street Baptist Church Bombing
Members of the KKK planted a bomb inside of the church. The bomb was planted under one of the Sunday school rooms and ended up killing 4 girls an injured others. This created legal change because the people who did this only got a 100 dollar fine and no jail time. They later got jail time in the late 1900’s but that still isn’t enough. -
Malcom X Assassinated
Malcom Little or “Malcom X” was assassinated during one of the rallies of the Nation of Islam. -
Selma March
The Selma to Montgomery march was part of a series of civil rights protests that occurred in 1965 in Alabama. They were stopped by sheriffs and volunteers. Some people were killed and the rest were brutally attacked. People across the nation and part of the world saw this tragic event. This caused a lot of social and legal change because all of what those police men and volunteers chose to do was extremely unjust. -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 allowed black people to vote but the government also implemented the literacy test which the people who conducted the test purposely failed black people so they couldn’t vote.