Civil rights timeline by year
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Interactive Civil Rights Timeline: 1945-1954
In response to brutal attacks against Black WWII veterans in 1946, President Harry S. Truman created a first-of-its-kind Committee on Civil Rights, endorsed their landmark report, adopted their recommendations and campaigned on a civil rights platform, and ultimately desegregated the military and federal workforce through executive order. When America desperately needed a leader to advance its promise of freedom, President Truman stepped forward. His courageous leadership in the 1940s paved the way for civil rights reform in the 1960s— and stands today as the benchmark for dreams yet deferred.
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Timeline of the Civil Rights Movement 1954 – 1964
Brown vs. Board of Education: May 17, 1954
The U.S. Supreme Court rules that segregation in public schools is unconstitutional.
One year after the ruling, no school in the south was integrated.
Montgomery Bus Boycott: December 1955 – December 1956
After Rosa Parks is arrested for refusing to give her bus seat to a white passenger, Martin Luther King led the African American community in Montgomery, Alabama in a year-long effort to boycott public buses.
Little Rock Nine: September 1957
After the governor of Arkansas ordered the National Guard to prevent nine African American students from entering Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, President Eisenhower sent the U.S. Army to accompany the students into the school.
Although the soldiers remain in the school to protect the students, white students harass the “Little Rock Nine” for the entire year.
Sit-ins: February 1960
Four black college students in Greensboro, North Carolina sat at a “white only” lunch counter.
By summer, many lunch counters were desegregated; people of all races could sit and be served.
Ruby Bridges integrates New Orleans Public Schools: November 14, 1960
U.S. federal marshals escorted six year-old Ruby Bridges as she walked by angry
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