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Executive Order 8802 prevented discrimination in the national defense industry.
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Melba is born on Pearl Harbor day.
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Executive Order 9981 ended segregation in the armed forces.
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This was the day that the Supreme Court ruled that it was unconstitutional to have separate schools for black and white students.
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The lynching of 14 year-old Emmett Till opened the eyes of many people to how bad segregation and racism was.
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When Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat, she was arrested. This kick-started the Montgomery bus boycott. For Melba, she realizes after this event that integrating will be a lot harder than she thought.
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This event allowed Melba to integrate into Central High in the future.
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When Melba and her friends go to school on the first day, they can't get in because a mob of people and the national guardsmen are blocking the way.
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This was the first time since the Reconstruction that the federal government took significant action to protect civil rights.
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The government wanted to see how the 9 students would be able to handle less guards protecting them.
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This trial was to determine whether the Little Rock 9 could integrate Central High. It's decided that they can.
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Melba and her friends are finally able to make it inside on this day. They are able to make it through a few hours of school before it becomes too dangerous and the 9 have to leave.
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At this point, integration becomes so dangerous that President Eisenhower sent all of the 101st Airborne to protect the Little Rock 9.
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When Melba was walking down a hallway, a kid sprays acid in her face. Her bodyguard Danny was able to save her from going blind.
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After she accidentally spills chili on a student, Minnijean gets suspended. This riles up the segregationists who go around saying "One down, eight to go."
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Melba learns of an attack planned on her from a boy named Link. At first she doesn't trust him, but she soon begins to.
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After she allegedly spilled soup on a student, Minnijean gets expelled. The segregationists now start trying to expel the other 8 students left. Minnijean then goes to a different school in New York.
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Ernest Green becomes the first African-American to ever graduate Central High.
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After a long and grueling time at Central High, Melba and her friends successfully make it through the school year.
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Four African-American college students refused to leave a diner until they were served. This started a series of sit-ins in the future.
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Four young girls, one of them being Ruby Bridges, were chosen to integrate into two elementary schools in Louisiana, which were McDonogh 19 and William Frantz elementary school.
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The march was a protest to demand civil rights for African-Americans. Martin Luther King Jr's famous "I have a dream speech" was given here.
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Also known as the Birmingham church bombing, the attack was an act of white supremacist terrorism. A bomb exploded before Sunday morning services, killing four people.
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John F. Kennedy helped avoid nuclear war with Russia and was a strong advocate for civil rights
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This act was created to put an end to employment discrimination.
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Due to his efforts in the Civil Rights movement, Martin Luther King Jr. is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
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Malcolm X was one of the leading forces in the Civil Rights movement.
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Martin Luther King Jr. was the most visible spokesman for the Civil Rights Movement.
