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Jackie Robinson enters Major League Baseball
Jackie Robinson was the first African American to play Major League Baseball. And he was the first ever to break the color barrier when he took the field at Brooklyn on the team Brooklyn Dodgers -
Executive Order 9981 signed by President Truman
Harry Truman signed Executive Order 9981. Which created the President's Committee on Equality of Treatment and Opportunity in the Armed Services. -
Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court Ruling
In 1954 the case of the Brown v. Board of Education. The Supreme Court ruled that racial separation in public schools was unconstitutional. This decision overturned the Separate but Equal doctrine established in Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896. -
Emmett Hill was Murdered
Emmett Till was shopping at a grocery store he was accused of offending a white woman. And after that he got kidnapped then beaten then shot in the head at 14 years old. -
Rosa Parks Arrest
Rosa Parks Was arrested because she did not want to refuse her seat also meaning she didn't want to give up her seat to a white man. So the driver called the police she gets arrested but she does get bailed out tho.1