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Truman signs an order stating "It is hereby declared to be the policy of the President that there shall be equality of treatment and opportunity for all persons in the armed services without regard to race, color, religion, or national origin."
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Court over rules Plessy vs. Ferguson's decision that the segregated schools were "seperate but equal." Segregation of schools is now elminated.
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On this date, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat after a long day at work to a white man. She is arrested, but her action marks the start of a long 'revolution' of the fights for the rights.
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Park's actions leads to the montgomery bus boycott, which will last for more than a year, until on December 21, 1956, when the buses finally become desegregated. Martin Luther King is the leader of the boycott.
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Martin Luther King, Charles K. Steele, and Fred L. Shuttlesworth establish the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Its goal is to find equality through discipline and representing all black rights activists.
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In september of 1957, when 9 black students tried to go to a school in Arkansas, many whites and the Arkansas National Guard made threats of lynching them, until President Eisenhower stepped in and had an intervention, allowing them to return to school threat free.
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Four black students from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College sit in at a restaruant and are refused service, however they allowed to sit. This is called a sit in, and it is so effective that six months later, the same students are served lunch at the same restaurant. This is a nonviolence approach.
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In april of 1960, the SNCC is created giving young blacks a place to peacefully protest. It ha of Stokely Carmichael as the leader
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Freedom Riders ride in inner city. They are attacked by white mobs, however. The Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) created it. It involves over 1,000 black and white students.
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James Meredith the first black student to be accepted to te Universeity of Mississippi. Riots cause president Kennedy to send in 5,000 federal troops
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MLK is arrested during anti segregation protests, and in jail he writes his 'Lettter From Birmingham Jail'
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Sympathy of the public is created when Bull Connor sprays black demonstrators with fire hoses and uses police dogs. It raises awareness everywhere of how badly blacks were treated
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Martin Luther King gives his I have a dream speech at the lincoln memorial gathering 200,000 followers
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in the lorraine hotel, on this date, mlk jr was standing on his balcony when James Earl Ray shot him and killed him
