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George Floyd protests, May 26 – Following the murder of George Floyd, protests and civil unrest against police brutality and systemic racism began in Minneapolis and quickly spread across the United States and the world, on a scale unseen since the unrest of the summers of 1967 and 1968.
The fight against fascism during World War II brought to the forefront the contradictions between America’s ideals of democracy and equality and its treatment of racial minorities. Throughout the war, the NAACP and other civil rights organizations worked to end discrimination in the armed forces.
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February 23: Hattie McDaniel(1895–1952) becomes the first Black person to win an Academy Award. McDaniel wins the best supporting actress award for her portrayal of an enslaved woman in the film, "Gone with the Wind." McDaniel has worked as a singer, songwriter, comedian, and actress and is well-known as she was the first Black woman to sing on the...
March 19: The Tuskegee Air Squadron, also known as the Tuskegee Airmen, is established by the U.S. Army. The squadron is led by Benjamin O. Davis Jr., who goes on to be the first four-star general in the U.S. Air Force. June 25: President Franklin Delano Roosevelt issues Executive Order 8802, desegregating war production plans. The order also estab...
January 1:Margaret Walker (1915–1998) publishes her poetry collection "For My People" while working at Livingstone College in North Carolina, and wins the Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition for it later that year. James Farmer Jr., George Houser, Bernice Fisher, James Russell Robinson, Joe Guinn, and Homer Jack found the Congress of Racial Eq...
March: The first Black cadets graduate from the Army Flight School at Tuskegee University. The cadets at the facility—which is segregated—have completed rigorous training in subjects such as meteorology, navigation, and instruments, says the National Park Service, which operates the Tuskegee Airmen National Historic Site, at Moton Field in Tuskegee...
April 3: The U.S. Supreme Court declares that White-only political primaries are unconstitutional in the Smith v. Allwright case. According to Oyez: April 25: The United Negro College Fund is established by Frederick Douglass Patterson (1901–1988) to provide support to historically Black colleges and universities and well as its students. The fund ...
June: Benjamin O. Davis Jr. (1912–2002) is named commander of Goodman Field in Kentucky, becoming the first Black person to command a military base. The U.S. Air Force Academy would later name its airfield in Colorado Springs, Colorado, after Davis, who received the Silver Star for a strafing run into Austria and the Distinguished Flying Cross for ...
June 3: The U.S. Supreme Court rules that segregation on interstate bus travel is unconstitutional in Morgan v. Virginia. The case involves Irene Morgan, who was riding a Greyhound bus from Hayes Store, in Gloucester County, to Baltimore, Maryland, in 1944—more than a decade before Rosa Parks— when she was arrested and convicted in Saluda for refus...
April 11: Jackie Robinsonbecomes the first Black person to play major league baseball when he is signed to the Brooklyn Dodgers. Robinson would go on to endure intense discrimination and rise above it to serve as a symbol of the civil rights movement and win both the Rookie of the Year at the end of the season and the International League MVP Awar...
July 26: President Harry Truman issues Executive Order 9981, desegregating the armed forces. The order not only desegregates the U.S. military but helps pave the way for the civil rights movement, along with other events that occur during the decade. August 7: Alice Coachman Davis (1923–2014) wins the high jump at the Olympics in London, England, b...
June: Wesley A. Brown (1927–2012) becomes the first Black person to graduate from the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis. According to the Naval Institute, Brown would go on to have an active and stellar career in the Navy, including a temporary assignment at the Boston Naval Shipyard, postgraduate study in civil engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic ...
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After the American Civil War, incident of white violence directed against black urban dwellers in Louisiana; the event was influential in focusing public opinion in the North on the necessity of taking firmer measures to govern the South during Reconstruction.
4. Dez. 2017 · The civil rights movement was an organized effort by black Americans to end racial discrimination and gain equal rights under the law. It began in the late 1940s and ended in the late 1960s.
By the end of the 1960s, the civil rights movement had brought about dramatic changes in the law and in public practice, and had secured legal protection of rights and freedoms for African Americans that would shape American life for decades to come.
27. Okt. 2009 · By the early 1940s, war-related work was booming, but most Black Americans weren’t given better-paying jobs. They were also discouraged from joining the military. After thousands of Black people...
