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The Supream Cpurt Decicsion of Plessy v. Ferguson
A court case that ruled that racial segregation laws did not violate the U.S. Constitution as long as the facilities for each race were equal in quality, a doctrine that came to be known as "separate but equal" -
The Tuskegee Airmen
The Tuskegee Airmen were the first African American soldiers to successfully complete their training and enter the Army Air Corps -
The Integration of Major League Baseball
On April 15, 1947 the first ever African-American played in the MLB, his name was Jakie Robinson -
The Intergration of the Armed Forces
Truemans Executive Order 9981 declared 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. -
The Supreme Court Decision of Sweatt v. Painter
This court case made it that colored and white school are to the equal -
The Supreme Court Decision of Brown v. Board of Education
This court case by the Supreme Court ruled that separating children in public schools on the basis of race was unconstitutional -
The Death of Emmitt Till
Emmett Louis Till was a 14-year-old African American boy who was abducted, tortured, and lynched in Mississippi in 1955, after being accused of offending a white woman -
The Montgomery Bus Boycott
The Montgomery bus boycott was a political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama -
The Intergration of Little Rock High School
Governor Orval Faubus mobilized the Arkansas National Guard in an effort to prevent nine African American students from integrating the high school -
The Civil Rights Act of 1957
The first civil rights legislation since Reconstruction. The new act established the Civil Rights Section of the Justice Department and empowered federal prosecutors to obtain court injunctions against interference with the right to vote. -
The Greensboro Four Lunch Counter Sit-In
Four African-American teenagers sat at a white booth during lunch. They refused to move and started a movement for equal rights. -
The Freedom Rides by Freedom Riders of 1961
Freedom Riders were groups of white and African American civil rights activists who participated in Freedom Rides, bus trips through the American South in 1961 to protest segregated bus terminals. -
The Twenty-Fourth Amendment
The 24th amendment banned poll taxes -
The Intergration of the University of Alabama
President John F. Kennedy federalized National Guard troops and deployed them to the University of Alabama to force its desegregation. The next day, Governor Wallace yielded to the federal pressure, and two African American students -
The March on Washington and the "I Have A Dream" Speech
250,000 people marched to Waschington D.C. Here Martin Luther King gave his famous "I Have A Dream" speech -
The Assassination of John F. Kennedy In Dallas, Texas
John F. Kennedy was in his car during a presidential motorcade through Dealey Plaza when he was shot by Lee Harvey Oswald. -
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
This act made in unconstitutional to not hire someone based on their race or religion -
The Assassination of Malcom X
Malcolm X was an American Muslim minister and human rights activist who was a prominent figure during the civil rights movement. -
The Selma to Montgomery March
Hundreds of people gathered in Selma, Alabama to march to the capital city of Montgomery. They marched to ensure that African Americans could exercise their constitutional right to vote -
The Voting Rights Act og !965
This act made it illegal to make colored people take literacy test before voting -
The Assassination of Martin Luther King
MLK was assassinated at a motel on April 4, 1968 by James Earl Ray -
The Voting Rights Act of 1968
The 1968 act expanded on previous acts and prohibited discrimination concerning the sale, rental, and financing of housing based on race, religion, national origin, and since 1974, sex. Since 1988, the act protects people with disabilities and families with children.