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Desegregating the Army, 1948
• 1941 Randolph and threat of ‘March on Washington’
• 26 July 1948 Exec Orders on desegregating the army and FEP in Fed Govt.
Brown vs. Board of Education, Topeka et al
• George E.C. Hayes, Thurgood Marshall, and James Nabrit, congratulating each other, following Supreme Court decision declaring segregation unconstitutional, 1954.
Little Rock, Arkansas 1957
Montgomery Bus Boycott, 1955
• The Boycott lasted 381 Days
• MLK comes to public attention
• SCLC, 1957
Greensboro’, NC 1960
Freedom Riders
James Meredith, Miss., Sept 1962
Birmingham, Ala.
• 1961 Albany, Georgia• Apr 1963 SCLC in
Birmingham• June 1963, CR Bill
presented to Congress
March On Washington, Aug 1963
Signing the Civil Rights Act, 1964
Selma, Alabama, 1965
The Voting Rights Act
Freedom Summer,1964