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• MLK JR. Assasination
  1968

  Martin Luther King, Jr., is assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee. His murder grew lots of tension amongst people which caused a week of rioting across the country.

• Black Panthers
  1966

  The militant Black Panthers are founded by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale.

• Malcom X Assasination
  1965

  After being involved with the Nation Of Islam, and after leaving, Malcom X is assasinated by gunmen that were involved in the NOI.

• Civil Rights Act
  1964

  The congress passed a Civil Rights Act prohibiting racial discrimination in restaurants, theaters, hotels, hospitals, and public facilities of all sorts. This civil rights act also made it easier and safer for Southern Blacks to register and vote.

• Birmingham Bombing
  1963

  Bobby Frank Cherry, Thomas Blanton, Robert "Dynamite Bob" Chambliss, were all convicted for the murder of 4 young girls that were killed in the bombing at that church.

• "I Have A Dream" Speech
  1963

  Dr. Martin Luther King JR. gave his famous "I Have A Dream" speech, in Washington DC were more than 250,000 civil rights demonstrators marched.

• Freedom Riders
  1961

  The Freedom Riders sought to test the enforcement of the segregation at bus terminals. They consisted of black and white males, as well as females. But at an Alamaba bus terminal one bus was firebombed, and they were beat.

• Sit-Ins
  1960

  Four African American college students hold a sit-in to integrate a Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, N.C., launching a wave of similar protests across the South.

• Begining of The Little Rock Nine
  1957

  The first nine African-American students attend an all white school in Little Rock, Arkansas.

• The Start Of The Montgommery Boycott
  1955

  African-American women, Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat on the bus for a white man. This whole incident caused the bus boycott that lasted 365+ days.

• Emmet Till
  1955

  Emmet Till was severely beaten and shot in the head, for "flirting" with a 21 year old white women.

• Brown VS. Board Of Education
  1954

  Landmark Supreme Court ruling, Brown v. Board of Topeka, Kansas. "Separate but equal" schools ruled unconstitutional.

• Executive Order 10479
  1953

  Executive Order 10479 signed by President Eisenhower establishes the anti-discrimination Committee on Government Contracts.

• Trumans Laws
  1947

  Trumans Civil Rights Committee recommended laws protecting the right of African Americans to vote and banning segregation on railroads and buses. He issued executive orders ending segregation in the armed forces and prohibiting job discrimination in all government agencies.