Civil Rights Timeline up until 1965 by Daniel Moynihan https://padlet.com/danielmoynihan99/1cfsdxvucy8aukzn Made with the help of a typing monkey en-us 2021-03-23 20:17:59 UTC 2021-03-23 20:27:58 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f9d0.png July 26, 1948: President Harry Truman issues Executive Order 9981 to end segregation in the Armed Services. danielmoynihan99 https://padlet.com/danielmoynihan99/1cfsdxvucy8aukzn/wish/1345064676 2021-03-23 20:20:02 UTC https://padlet.com/danielmoynihan99/1cfsdxvucy8aukzn/wish/1345064676 May 17, 1954: Brown v. Board of Education, a consolidation of five cases into one, is decided by the Supreme Court, effectively ending racial segregation in public schools. Many schools, however, remained segregated. danielmoynihan99 https://padlet.com/danielmoynihan99/1cfsdxvucy8aukzn/wish/1345069659 2021-03-23 20:21:19 UTC https://padlet.com/danielmoynihan99/1cfsdxvucy8aukzn/wish/1345069659 December 1, 1955: Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery, Alabama bus. Her defiant stance prompts a year-long Montgomery bus boycott. danielmoynihan99 https://padlet.com/danielmoynihan99/1cfsdxvucy8aukzn/wish/1345070669 2021-03-23 20:21:36 UTC https://padlet.com/danielmoynihan99/1cfsdxvucy8aukzn/wish/1345070669 January 10-11, 1957: Sixty Black pastors and civil rights leaders from several southern states—including Martin Luther King, Jr.—meet in Atlanta, Georgia to coordinate nonviolent protests against racial discrimination and segregation. danielmoynihan99 https://padlet.com/danielmoynihan99/1cfsdxvucy8aukzn/wish/1345073344 2021-03-23 20:22:21 UTC https://padlet.com/danielmoynihan99/1cfsdxvucy8aukzn/wish/1345073344 September 4, 1957: Nine Black students known as the “Little Rock Nine” are blocked from integrating into Little Rock Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. President Dwight D. Eisenhower eventually sends federal troops to escort the students, however, they continue to be harassed. danielmoynihan99 https://padlet.com/danielmoynihan99/1cfsdxvucy8aukzn/wish/1345074498 2021-03-23 20:22:40 UTC https://padlet.com/danielmoynihan99/1cfsdxvucy8aukzn/wish/1345074498 September 9, 1957: Eisenhower signs the Civil Rights Act of 1957 into law to help protect voter rights. The law allows federal prosecution of those who suppress another’s right to danielmoynihan99 https://padlet.com/danielmoynihan99/1cfsdxvucy8aukzn/wish/1345075641 2021-03-23 20:23:01 UTC https://padlet.com/danielmoynihan99/1cfsdxvucy8aukzn/wish/1345075641 November 14, 1960: Six-year-old Ruby Bridges is escorted by four armed federal marshals as she becomes the first student to integrate William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans. Her actions inspired Norman Rockwell’s painting The Problem We All Live With (1964). danielmoynihan99 https://padlet.com/danielmoynihan99/1cfsdxvucy8aukzn/wish/1345076385 2021-03-23 20:23:14 UTC https://padlet.com/danielmoynihan99/1cfsdxvucy8aukzn/wish/1345076385 1961: Throughout 1961, Black and white activists, known as freedom riders, took bus trips through the American South to protest segregated bus terminals and attempted to use “whites-only” restrooms and lunch counters. The Freedom Rides were marked by horrific violence from white protestors, they drew international attention to their cause. danielmoynihan99 https://padlet.com/danielmoynihan99/1cfsdxvucy8aukzn/wish/1345077148 2021-03-23 20:23:28 UTC https://padlet.com/danielmoynihan99/1cfsdxvucy8aukzn/wish/1345077148 August 28, 1963: Approximately 250,000 people take part in The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Martin Luther King gives his “I Have A Dream” speech as the closing address in front of the Lincoln Memorial, stating, “I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal.’ danielmoynihan99 https://padlet.com/danielmoynihan99/1cfsdxvucy8aukzn/wish/1345078551 2021-03-23 20:23:52 UTC https://padlet.com/danielmoynihan99/1cfsdxvucy8aukzn/wish/1345078551 July 2, 1964: President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964 into law, preventing employment discrimination due to race, color, sex, religion or national origin. Title VII of the Act establishes the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) to help prevent workplace discrimination. danielmoynihan99 https://padlet.com/danielmoynihan99/1cfsdxvucy8aukzn/wish/1345079489 2021-03-23 20:24:06 UTC https://padlet.com/danielmoynihan99/1cfsdxvucy8aukzn/wish/1345079489 March 7, 1965: Bloody Sunday. In the Selma to Montgomery March, around 600 civil rights marchers walk to Selma, Alabama to Montgomery—the state’s capital—in protest of Black voter suppression. Local police block and brutally attack them. After successfully fighting in court for their right to march, Martin Luther King and other civil rights leaders lead two more marches and finally reach Montgomery on March 25. danielmoynihan99 https://padlet.com/danielmoynihan99/1cfsdxvucy8aukzn/wish/1345080411 2021-03-23 20:24:21 UTC https://padlet.com/danielmoynihan99/1cfsdxvucy8aukzn/wish/1345080411