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President Harry Truman had signed this executive order in 1948 in order to prove that everyone has equal rights and opportunities in armed services. In stating that all people who fought for our country gets the same treatment and care afterwards rather than differentiating the treatments, rewards and care based off of their skin color. I feel as though this became a better impact on the Civil Rights Movement because it showed the start of desegregation and showing that the President truly did care about every race and wanted to help fix the problems African Americans were facing during this time.
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In 1896, the court ruled that segregated schools were legal as long as they were "equal". The NAACP was working through this problem by trying to get rid of the laws with lawsuits and more. In 1952, Brown stepped up and with his case, there were 4 more that were related so they threw them together. Brown was a helper with these laws and putting the kids together but the civil rights act in 1964 was the start of the desegregation which was then followed by the voting rights and fair housing act in 1968. 60 years later, the case is still thrown out there as an example of racism in the nation's schools.
https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/brown-v-board-of-education-of-topeka

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Emmett Till was an African American 14-year-old boy from Chicago who was murdered for flirting with a white woman. When he was murdered, the white woman's husband and brother made him carry a 75-pound cotton gin to the river and then made him take off his clothes. The men brutally beat him, gauged his eye out and shot him in the head, and then threw his body into the river. The trial of this boy's death was one of the main reasons that showed the violence to the civil rights movement. To this day there is an "Emmett Till antilynching Act making lynching illegal and a federal hate crime.
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-death-of-emmett-till

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Rosa Parks was an African American woman who refused to give up her seat on the bus to a white man. As a result, she was arrested. After she was arrested and fined, they had started the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Around 40,000 African Americans rode the bus which was the majority of people who took the bus, boycotted and protested by not riding the bus and showing they wanted rights. When doing so, this was losing the bus company money and was hurting the company, they almost stopped running. It's not that they knew the laws would change, they just wanted equality when coming to the bus company and people riding the bus. This was important to the civil rights movement because they fought hard enough to come down to the point wheres laws were passed.
https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/montgomery-bus-boycott

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The "little rock nine" was 9 black students who all enrolled in an all-white central high school in little rock, Arkansas. This also became a test of the Brown vs Board of Education trial. This also comes along with the Jim Crow Laws and how schools had to be segregated into white schools and black schools. The governor had threatened to call in the national guard in order to keep the black children out of this high school. After this, this was seen as a very important part of the civil rights movement. President Clinton had awarded all 9 congressional gold metals for working through and fighting through them not letting them into this "all white" school.
https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/central-high-school-integration

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The Freedom Riders were a group of both white and black civil rights activists who came together and took bus rides through the south to protest against the segregated buses. On their trips, they tried using segregated bathrooms, restaurants, bubblers, and much more. Along their trips, there was a lot of police brutality and even a lot of violence from the white folks because they felt as though these protests were unnecessary. They wanted to get their point across and come down with the civil rights movement and get laws and other acts switched and fixed.
https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/freedom-rides

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The march on Washington was a huge protest that happened in 1963, there were around 250,000 people who gathered in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC. The march mostly occurred for African Americans who wanted jobs and freedom also bringing attention to the challenges they face in the real world. It also landed on the same day Martin Luther King Jr. had his "I have a dream" speech. This is very important to the civil rights movement because they are protesting against racism and the rights they should have.
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The church bombing of Birmingham happened before Sunday morning services at the 16th street church. This was mostly an African American church and where most civil leaders had their "meetings". When the bombing occurred, 4 innocent little girls were killed and many were injured. After this tragic moment, it started a lot of violent protests and conflict between protesters and police in which the police seemed to always win. This time is important to the civil rights movement because it shows the struggle of the racism  back then and how anyone got away with hurting and/or killing innocent African American people and this is why those laws of segregation were lifted and peace needed to arise.
https://www.history/topics/1960s/birmingham-church-bombing

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John lewis led 600 marchers across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma Alabama when state troopers came barging through brutally attacking the marchers. There were footage of this outrage and violence where people were outraged about in which started the fight against racial injustice. This problem with the state troopers and these protesters became a problem when a 26 year old died trying to protect their mom. At the time, President Lyndon had joined the protesters. This became a huge cause to the Civil Rights Movement because it brought out the fight in them to fight back for what they are already fighting for, for example, their rights.
https://www.history.com/topics/1960s/bloody-sunday

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MLK Jr. was killed in Memphis, Tennessee. MLK was a baptist minister along with the founder of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, he was one of the major leaders in the Civil Rights Movement. When he was assassinated, he was standing on the second floor balcony of the motel he was at, Lorraine Motel. A sniper bullet struck him in the neck, shortly after he was sent to the hospital and only an hour later he was pronounced dead. MLKs death had everyone going crazy in which started riots almost everywhere around the country. This became probably the most the biggest impact of the Civil Rights Movement because not only was he one of the leaders, he had one of the biggest impacts with his nonviolent protests and his speeches that he gave just about everywhere.
https://www.history.com/topics/1960s/MLK-assassination