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African----Americans Civil right 
July 26, 1948: President Harry Truman issued Executive Order 9981 to end segregation in the Armed Services.
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1868: The 14th Amendment to the Constitution, granting citizenship and equal civil and legal rights to African Americans and slaves, is ratified.
1865: The 13th Amendment to the Constitution, prohibiting slavery, is ratified.
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May 17, 1954: Brown v. Board of Education effectively ended racial segregation in public schools. However, many schools remained segregated.
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Sept. 9, 1957: Eisenhower signed the Civil Rights Act of 1957 into law to help protect voter rights. The law allows federal prosecution of those who suppress another’s right to vote.
1961: Throughout 1961, black and white activists, known as freedom riders, took bus trips through the American South to protest segregated bus terminals and attempted to use “whites-only” restrooms and lunch counters. The Freedom Rides, marked by horrific violence from white protesters, drew international attention to their cause.
1962: The Voter Education Project began. The VEP coordinated the voter registration campaigns of five civil rights groups: Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the Congress of Racial Equality, and the National Urban League, according to the King Encyclopedia of Stanford University.
Aug. 28, 1963: Around 250,000 people participated in The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Martin Luther King Jr. gave his “I Have A Dream” speech as the closing address in front of the Lincoln Memorial, stating, “I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal." and also
President Kennedy asked Congress to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1963.
July 2, 1964: President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 into law, preventing employment discrimination due to race, color, sex, religion or national origin. Title VII of the Act established the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) to help prevent workplace discrimination.
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