The Civil Rights Movement

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-Relive The Movement

-The Declaration of Independence

-NAACP Formed

-Slavery in the U.S.

-Lincoln Issues the Emancipation Proclamation

-The Civil War (1861-1865)

-Civil War States and Territories

-Post-Civil War

-Lincoln Assassinated

-13th Amendment Ratified

-Hate Groups Form

-14th Amendment Ratified

-15th Amendment Ratified

-African Americans Gain Respect Through Music

-Randolph Forms the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters

-Jesse Owens

-The Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)

-Jackie Robinson Breaks the Color Barrier

-Truman Takes Action

-Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 1954

-Emmett Till is Killed

-About Rosa Parks

-Rosa Parks

-The Montgomery Bus Boycott

-Central High School

-Racial Segregation and Lunch Counter Sit-Ins

-Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)

-Martin Luther King, Jr.

-The Albany (Georgia) Movement

-James Meredith Attends the University of Mississippi

-Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

-Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)

-Segregated Interstate Bus Terminals Declared Unconstitutional

-"I Have a Dream"

-Birmingham Church Bombed

-Birmingham, Alabama

-Sidney Poitier Wins Oscar

-King Awarded Nobel Peace Prize

-Malcolm X

-The Civil Rights Act of 1964

-Despite the Progress, Many Turn to Violence

-The Voting Rights Act of 1965

-March on Selma, Alabama

-Thurgood Marshall, First African-American Supreme Court Justice

-1968 Olympics

-Robert F. Kennedy

-Jesse Jackson Runs for President

-Post-Movement

Truman Takes Action

Many African Americans served in the United States Army during World War II, but their valor and service were not welcomed back in the U.S. Upon returning, the black soldiers found themselves in a segregated society that presented limited rights.

In 1948, President Harry S Truman (1884-1972) made an executive order that integrated the armed services. He also made sure that there would be no discriminatory practices in the hiring of minorities in the federal workforce.