Timeline of Events
1958
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- January 18-Willie O'ree breaks the color barrier in the National hockey league
- 0ctober 20-13 blacks are arrested for sitting in the white section of the bus in Birmingham
1959
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- February 2-A high school in Arlington desegregates and allowed four black students to enrol in their school.
- January 9-one federal judge fights against segregation on Atlanta buses allowing African-Americans to sit with whites
1960
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- March 20-LeRoy Collins from Florida calls the lunch segregation "unfair and morally wrong"
1961
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- May 4-the first group for the freedom ride departs Washington with the intentions of stopping the segregation in interstate buses
- May 20-freedom riders get assaulted at a Greyhound Bus Station
1962
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- February 26-The U.S. supreme court announces that segregation in transportation facilities in both the interstate and intrastate are not in accordance to the law.
- the University of Virginia receives their first black graduate, Leroy Willis
1963
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- April 12-Martin Luther King, Jr. is arrested for "parading without a permit"
- May 24-A group of Black leaders discuss the racial relationships with General Robert F. Kennedy.
1964
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- June 21- 3 civil rights workers in Mississippi are murdered
- December 10-Martin Luther King, Jr. is awarded the Nobel Peace prize
1965
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- July 2-Equal Employment Opportunity Commission or EEOC, opens
- August 6-President Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act of 1965
1966
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- September-Nichelle Nichols who is female black actor in Star Trek, is encouraged to continue her role by Dr. Martin Luther King to provide an example for the black community
- November-Edward Brooke is elected to become the U.S. Senate and is the first black senate ever since 1881