Racial segregation: Timeline

1948   U.S. President signs Executive Order 9981, ending racial segregation in the United States Armed Forces.

1960   In Greensboro, N.C., four black students from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College begin a sit-in at a segregated Racial segregation

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 Woolworth's lunch counter. Although they are refused service, they are allowed to stay at the counter. The event triggers many similar nonviolent protests throughout the South Southern United States

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, and 6 months later the original four protesters are served lunch at the same counter.

1964   In protests against alleged de-facto school racial segregation, Black and Puerto Rican groups in New York City New York City

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 boycott public school.