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1919 Race riots erupt in Chicago and East St. Louis
1920 Marcus Garvey establishes United Negro Improvement
Association
1920s Harlem Renaissance
1936 Jesse Owens wins Olympic gold medals in Berlin
1938 Joe Louis crowned heavyweight champion of the world
1938 Missouri ex rel. Gaines v. Canada
1941 A. Philip Randolph organizes March on Washington
Movement; President Franklin D. Roosevelt desegregates
defense industries
1942 Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) founded
1943 Massive race riot in Detroit, Michigan
1946
December 5 President Truman appoints Committee on Civil Rights
1947
April 9 CORE initiates Journey of Reconciliation
April 10 Jackie Robinson breaks color line in major league baseball
October 29 Committee on Civil Rights issues report, To Secure These
Rights
1948
July 26 President Truman orders desegregation of military
1950
June 5 United States Supreme Court hands down series of
victories for NAACP in Sweatt v. Painter, McLaurin v.
Oklahoma State Regents, and Henderson v. United States
1954
May 17 Supreme Court rules segregation in public education
unconstitutional in Brown v. Board of Education of
Topeka, Kansas
July 11 First White Citizens' Council formed in Indianola,
Mississippi

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