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Fair Employment Practices
President Roosevelt issued an executive order to investigate discrimination complaints, and take appropriate steps to redress valid grievances. -
Jackie Robinson
Jackie who grew up in Cairo GA, broke the color barrier as the first African American to play baseball in the Major League. By playing for the Brooklyn Dodgers at the time and becoming well known he helped paved the way for Civil Rights Movement. -
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas.
Having segregated schools was thought of as unconstitutional. This overturned the ruling of the Plessy v. Ferguson and proved that "separate but equal" was not actually true. -
Rosa Parks
As Rosa Parks sits down and waits for her stop she sits in the non-colored section of the bus. When a white passenger comes on and wants her seat she refuses to get up and causes herself to get arrested. With this she made her point of not wanting segregated buses, and later on about a year long bus boycott was made. In leader Martin Luther King Jr., proving that there should be no race differences. -
Civil Rights Acts 1964
This rights act told that it prohibits discriminates any and all kinds of based on race, color, religion, or national origin. This law also gave the government to enforce desegregation. -
Missing, Neshoba County, Mississippi
Three civil rights movement men were arrested and handed off to the Ku Klux Klan, after being charged with speeding, and investigated for the burning of a black church. -
Malcolm X
Killed for leaving the his old group, the Black Muslim Faith. Malcolm X was the founder of Organization of Afro-American Unity. -
Black Panther Party
The Black Panther Party was made originally protect African Americans from police brutality in the African American neighborhoods. Founded in 1966, in Oakland California, created for self defense. -
Martin Luther King Jr Death
As Martin Luther King Jr stands at his hotel balcony he is shot by James Earl Ray, who got away but later caught. Martin Luther King Jr dies of the shot in Memphis Tennessee. -
President Reagans Veto
Congress overrides the presidents veto on Civil Rights Restoration Act, and passes it. With this it expanded the reach of non-discrimination laws within private institutions receiving federal funds.
