Timeline by Alaya Ashlock https://padlet.com/718931_/7k5xt7ban0g08ujd en-us 2023-11-27 16:12:36 UTC 2023-11-29 15:38:50 UTC hello@padlet.com President Harry Truman issues Executive Order 9981 to end segregation in the Armed Services 718931_ https://padlet.com/718931_/7k5xt7ban0g08ujd/wish/2804281557 July 26, 1948

]]> 2023-11-27 16:17:02 UTC https://padlet.com/718931_/7k5xt7ban0g08ujd/wish/2804281557 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. 718931_ https://padlet.com/718931_/7k5xt7ban0g08ujd/wish/2804284670 May 17, 1954

]]> 2023-11-27 16:19:04 UTC https://padlet.com/718931_/7k5xt7ban0g08ujd/wish/2804284670 Emmett Till, a 14-year-old from Chicago is brutally murdered in Mississippi. 718931_ https://padlet.com/718931_/7k5xt7ban0g08ujd/wish/2804287389 August 28, 1955

]]> 2023-11-27 16:20:43 UTC https://padlet.com/718931_/7k5xt7ban0g08ujd/wish/2804287389 Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery, Alabama bus. 718931_ https://padlet.com/718931_/7k5xt7ban0g08ujd/wish/2804289346 December 1, 1955

]]> 2023-11-27 16:21:23 UTC https://padlet.com/718931_/7k5xt7ban0g08ujd/wish/2804289346 Sixty Black pastors and civil rights leaders from several southern states including Martin Luther King, Jr. meet in Atlanta, Georgia. 718931_ https://padlet.com/718931_/7k5xt7ban0g08ujd/wish/2804290328 January 10-11, 1957

]]> 2023-11-27 16:21:59 UTC https://padlet.com/718931_/7k5xt7ban0g08ujd/wish/2804290328 Nine African American students known as the “Little Rock Nine” are blocked from integrating into Little Rock Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. 718931_ https://padlet.com/718931_/7k5xt7ban0g08ujd/wish/2804291388 September 4, 195

]]> 2023-11-27 16:22:35 UTC https://padlet.com/718931_/7k5xt7ban0g08ujd/wish/2804291388 Eisenhower signs the Civil Rights Act of 1957 into law to help protect voter rights. 718931_ https://padlet.com/718931_/7k5xt7ban0g08ujd/wish/2804292675 September 9, 1957

]]> 2023-11-27 16:23:21 UTC https://padlet.com/718931_/7k5xt7ban0g08ujd/wish/2804292675 Four African American college students in Greensboro, North Carolina refuse to leave a Woolworth’s “whites only” lunch counter without being served. 718931_ https://padlet.com/718931_/7k5xt7ban0g08ujd/wish/2804293860 February 1, 1960

]]> 2023-11-27 16:24:01 UTC https://padlet.com/718931_/7k5xt7ban0g08ujd/wish/2804293860 Six-year-old Ruby Bridges is escorted by four armed federal marshals as she becomes the first student to go to an "all-white" School in New Orleans. 718931_ https://padlet.com/718931_/7k5xt7ban0g08ujd/wish/2804295004 November 14, 1960

]]> 2023-11-27 16:24:41 UTC https://padlet.com/718931_/7k5xt7ban0g08ujd/wish/2804295004 In the Selma to Montgomery March, around 600 civil rights marchers walk to Selma, Alabama to Montgomery to protest of African American voting. Martin Luther King and other civil rights leaders lead two more marches and finally reach Montgomery on March 25. 718931_ https://padlet.com/718931_/7k5xt7ban0g08ujd/wish/2804296514 March 7, 1965

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