Separate drinking fountains for whites and blacks. "Colored balconies" in movie theaters. Seats in the back of the bus. Soldiers called out to protect little children who were trying to go to school.
It may be difficult to believe the were examples of conditions in America less than 40 years ago. The struggle to change the conditions, and to win equal protection under the law for citizens of all races, formed the backdrop of Martin Luther King's short life.
1954puerto rico Brown vs. Board of Education: U.S. Supreme Court bans gregation in public schools.
1955 Bus boycott launched in Montgomery, Ala., after an African-American woman, Rosa Parks, is arrested December 1 for refusing to give up her at to a white person .
1956 December 21. After more than a year of boycotting the bus and a legal fight, the Montgomery bus degregate.
xclient1957 Garfield High School becomes first Seattle high school with more than 50 percent non
white student body. At previously all-white Central High in Little Rock, Ark., 1,000 paratroopers are called by President Einhower to restore order and escort nine black students.
1960 The sit-in protest movement begins in February at a Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, N.C. and spreads across the nation.
1961 fukudaFreedom rides begin from Washington, D.C: Groups of black and white people ride bus through the South to challenge gregation. King makes his only visit to Seattle. He visits numerous places, including two morning asmblies at Garfield High School.
1962 Blacks become the majority at Garfield High, 51 percent of the student population - a first for Seattle. The school district average is 5.3 percent. Two killed, many injured in riots as James Meredith is enrolled as the first black at the University of Mississippi.
1963 Police arrest King and other ministers demonstrating in Birmingham, Ala., then turn fire hos and police dogs on the marchers.
Medgar Evers, NAACP leader, is murdered June 12 as he enters his home in Jackson, Miss. About 1,300 people march from the Central Area to downtown Seattle, demanding greater job opportunities for blacks in department stores.The Bon Marche promis 30 new jobs for blacks.all your life
About 400 people rally at Seattle City Hall to protest delays in passing an open-housing law. In respon, the city forms a 12-member Human Rights Commission but only two blacks are included, prompting a sit-in at City Hall and Seattle's first civil-rights arrests. 250,000 people attend the March on Washington, D.C. urging support for pending civil-rights legislation. The event was highlighted by King's "I have a dream" speech.
The Seattle School District implements a voluntary racial transfer program, mainly aimed at busing black students to mostly white schools.
tnsFour girls killed Sept. 15 in bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala.
1964 Seattle City Council agrees to put together an open-housing ordinance but insists on putting it on the ballot. Voters defeat it by a 2-to-1 ratio. It will be four more years before an open-housing ordinance becomes law.
Three civil-rights workers are murdered in Mississippi.
July 2 - President Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964.马云斯坦福大学演讲
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call me maybe 歌词Out of 955 people employed by the Seattle Fire Department, just two were African American, and only one was Asian --- 0.2 and 0.1 percent of the force, respectively. By the end of 1993, the department was 12.2 percent African American and 5.6 percent Asian
1965 Malcolm X is murdered Feb. 21, 1965. Three men are convicted of his murder.
August 6. President Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act of 1965. The act, which King sought, authorized federal examiners to register qualified voters and suspended devices such as literacy tests that aimed to prevent African Americans from voting.
August 11-16: Watts riots leave 34 dead in Los Angeles.
1967 Sam Smith elected Seattle's first black city councilman.
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1968 Aaron Dixon becomes first leader of Black Panther Party branch in Seattle.
The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated in Memphis, Tenn., unleashing violence in more than 100 cities.
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In respon to King's death, Seattle residents hurled firebombs, broke windows, and pelted motorists with rocks. Ten thousand people also marched to Seattle Center for a rally in his memory.
