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Harry Truman desegregated the army on July 26, 1948. This was a big step in the journey of desegregation. -
A white woman accused 14-year-old Emmett Till of violating her and he was lynched by a white mob. The woman is still alive today living her life. -
Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man on an Alabama bus. -
Ruby Bridges, a six-year-old girl, was one of the first Black students to integrate into an all-white school. White people gathered outside every day to protest and throw rocks at her. She had to be guarded walking into school. -
Step back shows people's opposition but also forward because Kennedy sends the national guard to help. -
Ku Klux Klan members planted dynamite and set it off, killing 4 Black kids. -
President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964 into law, preventing employment discrimination due to race, color, sex, religion, or national origin. Title VII of the Act establishes the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) to help prevent workplace discrimination. -
Black religious leader Malcolm X is assassinated during a rally by members of the Nation of Islam. -
Transportation companies that required non-whites to surrender their seats to whites boycotted. -
Martin Luther King, Jr. is assassinated on the balcony of his hotel room in Memphis, Tennessee. James Earl Ray is convicted of the murder in 1969. -
President Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1968, also known as the Fair Housing Act, providing equal housing opportunities regardless of race, religion, or national origin. -
Leader in the Black Panther who was killed in a police raid -
After decades of no one being charged for the Birmingham church bombing, the case was reopened and KKK member Robert Edward Chambliss was charged with the murder. Chambliss died in an Alabama prison on October 29, 1985, -
Rosa Parks was honored by President Bill Clinton with the Presidential Medal of Freedom for her stand in Montgomery, Alabama. However, she was unable to attend the ceremony. She was also bestowed with the Congressional Gold Medal in June of 1999. -
Went into orbit in Challenger on the STS-8 mission. -
After being the senator of Illinois in 1996 he started to campaign in order to become president. He beat John Macain in the race and won his reelection in 2012. -
Kendrick was the first rapper to win the award and they said, “a virtuosic song collection unified by its vernacular authenticity and rhythmic dynamism that offers affecting vignettes capturing the complexity of modern African American life” for his album DAMN. -
A police officer killed George Floyd by cutting airflow to his neck after kneeling on him for over 9 minutes. -
They are trying to have her charged with the murder of Emmett Till even this long after the event