Acts and Events against Racial Segregation By Marjo007 1850 1-Harriet Tubman starts rescuing slaves Sep 22, 1862 2-Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation 1952 3-Daisy Bates becomes president of the Arkansas Conference of NAACP branches. Dec 1, 1955 4-Rosa Parks rejects giving her seat to a white passenger Aug 28, 1963 5-Martin Luther King Jr.’s speech “I Have A Dream” May 10, 1994 6-Nelson Mandela becomes President of South Africa Jan 20, 2009 7-Barack Obama becomes President of the United States Jul 13, 2013 8-Beginning of the movement Black Lives Matter