Truman signs executive order 9981. (Equality for all armed forces)
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1953
Eisenhower comes into power
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May 17th 1954
Brown vs. Board of education. Schools told to become desegregated.
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August 1955
Emmett Till killed
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December 1st 1955
Rosa Parks arrested after not giving up her seat for a white man on a bus. Montgomery bus boycott begins
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December 21st 1956
Montgomery bus boycott ends after buses are desegregated
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January- February 1957
Southern Christian Leadership Conference founded by Martin Luther King jr. , Ralph Abernathy and others.
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September 1957.
9 black students in Little Rock walk to school, prompted by the SCLC they are told to go to a white school. They are greeted by an angry mob.
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February 1960
First ever sit in, at woolworths counter in greenboro North Carolina, by 4 black students. starts craze
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April 1969
SNCC- Student Non - Violent Co-Ordinating Commitee started by students in the south.
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1961
President JFK comes into power
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May 4th 1961
CORE begin Freedom Riders
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October 1962
James Meredith becomes the first ever black man to be accepted into University of Missisippi. Violence ensues from the locals, so JFK sends 5000 federal troops to help him
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1963
President Johnson comes into power
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April 16th 1963
Martin Luther King is arrested and jailed after anti- segregation protests in Alabama. He writes his famous 'Letter from Birmingham Jail'
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May 1963
Birmingham March, Bull Connor pulls out firehoses and police dogs on Black Activists
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August 28th 1963
200,000 people join the march on Washington, Martin Luther King delivers his famous 'I have a dream' speech
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January 23rd 1964
24th Amendment abolishes poll tax, making it easier for poor black people to vote.
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July 2nd 1964
Civil Rights Act passed
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August 4th 1964
3 civil rights activists bodies found after Johnson sends members from FBI to look for them. (It took them 6 weeks)
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February 21st 1965
Malcolm X murdered
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March 7th 1965
Selma March
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August 10th 1965
Voting Rights act passed
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September 24th
Executive Order 11246 made. It took affirmative action for civil rights. Allows contractors to employ everyone
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October 1966
Huey Newton and Bobby Seale start Black Panthers in Lowndes County
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April 19th 1967
Stokely Carmicheal takes over SNCC, with much more violent intentions.
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April 4th 1968
Martin Luther King shot
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November- December 1968
Rap Brown takes over SNCC.
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Other cards in this set
Card 2
Front
Truman signs executive order 9981. (Equality for all armed forces)
Back
July 26th 1948
Card 3
Front
Eisenhower comes into power
Back
Card 4
Front
Brown vs. Board of education. Schools told to become desegregated.
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