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Brown v Board of Education
A case was held and it was ruled that racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional. -
Rosa Parks
Civil rights activist Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a public bus to a white passenger. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
After the Rosa Parks events, a mass boycott to end segregation and the Montgomery bus law began and lasted for a year. -
Little Rock Nine
Nine teenage students were the first student to attendant Little Rock's Central High School, There were police there due to the upset crowds outside the school. -
Eisenhower Protects Rights to Vote
The law was the first act since Reconstruction in 1875 to address the issue of civil rights, Eisenhower then signed the Civil Rights act to protect the right for African Americans to vote. -
Ruby Bridges
Ruby was the first African American to join an all-white elementary school. -
Freedom riders
Freedom Riders were groups of white and African American civil rights activists who participated in Freedom Rides, bus trips through the American South to protest segregated bus terminals. -
Martin Luther King Jr.'s “I have a Dream” speech
King delivers the “I have a dream speech” about civil and economic rights, and talks about ending racism. He stressed the importance of equal treatment for all. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
The act paved the way for further school desegregation and the prohibition of discrimination in public places and within federal agencies. -
Selma to Montgomery marches
The Selma to Montgomery march was part of a series of civil rights protests that occurred in 1965 in Alabama, a Southern state with deeply entrenched racist policies. -
desegregation of Boston schools
As a federal judge, Garrity was at the center of a contentious battle over desegregation busing in Boston from the 1970s to the 1980s. He found a recurring pattern of racial discrimination in the operation of the Boston public schools in a 1974 ruling. His ruling found the schools were unconstitutionally segregated. -
Col. Guion “Guy” Bluford, Jr. to space
Dr. Guy Bluford launched on the STS-8 mission on August 30, 1983, becoming the first African American in space. Bluford served as a mission specialist and his jobs were to deploy an Indian communications-weather satellite, perform biomedical experiments, and test the orbiter's 50-foot robotic arm. -
Rodney King
African American man who was a victim of police brutality. On March 3, 1991, he was severely beaten by officers of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) during his arrest after a high speed pursuit for driving while intoxicated on the I-210. Four officers were eventually tried on charges of use of excessive force. Of these, three were acquitted; the jury failed to reach a verdict on one charge for the fourth. -
Toni Morrison Nobel Prize
With their richly-expressive depictions of Black America and poetic writing style, Morrison's many works earned her the Nobel Prize in Literature, making her the first Black woman to do so. From 1989-2006, Morrison held the Robert F. Goheen Chair in the Humanities at Princeton University. -
Colin Powell
President-elect George W. Bush named Powell as his nominee to be secretary of state in a ceremony at his ranch in Crawford, Texas on December 16, 2000. This made Powell the first person to formally accept a Cabinet post in the Bush administration, as well the first black United States secretary of state. -
Barack Obama becomes first African-American president
On November 4, 2008, Senator Barack Obama of Illinois defeats Senator John McCain of Arizona to become the 44th U.S. president, and the first African American elected to the White House. The 47-year-old Democrat garnered 365 electoral votes and nearly 53 percent of the popular vote, while his 72-year-old Republican challenger captured 173 electoral votes and more than 45 percent of the popular vote. -
Trayvon Martin
George Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch captain in Sanford, Florida, calls 911 to report “a suspicious person” in the neighborhood. He is instructed not to get out of his SUV or approach the person. Zimmerman disregards the instructions. Moments later, neighbors report hearing gunfire. Zimmerman acknowledges that he shot Martin, claiming it was in self-defense. Zimmerman was charged with murder, but later acquitted. -
BLM Movement
Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation, Inc. is a global organization in the US, UK, and Canada, whose mission is to eradicate white supremacy and build local power to intervene in violence inflicted on Black communities by the state and vigilantes. -
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Colin Kaeperick
"I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color," Kaepernick told NFL Media in an exclusive interview after the game. "To me, this is bigger than football and it would be selfish on my part to look the other way. There are bodies in the street and people getting paid leave and getting away with murder. -
George Floyd murdered by police
Just about every corner of life was affected by the renewed racial justice movement spurred by Floyd's death: policing, politics, sports, art, culture, business, education, media and more. Social media feeds and kitchen tables and park benches became settings for conversation and confrontation.