Highlights of the Civil Rights Movement.
1950s - National Association for the Advancement of Colored People commences its movement in Alabama and other southern states in the form of non-violence, sit-ins, and boycotts.
1955 - Montgomery, Alabama - a black woman, Rosa Parks is jailed and then bailed out for occupying a city bus seat reserved for whites only. NAACP led by Dr. Martin Luther King begins the campaign of boycotting city buses.
1956 - the Supreme Court declares the segregation on the city busses illegal.
1962 - the University of Mississippi admits the first black student. The event is followed by a large TV coverage and deployment of the federal military forces to ensure stability after white riots.
1963 - Birmingham, Alabama - a non-violent demonstration led by M.L. King turns into an outrage after the police attack.
Aug 28, 1963 - the march of 250,000 people on Washington. M.L.King gives his "I have a dream" speech:
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal. I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slaveholders will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood ... I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.
1964 - M. L. King is awarded the Nobel Prize. Malcolm X breaks with the Black Muslims to form Black Nationalist Movement, one year later he is assassinated in Harlem, NYC.
1964, 1965, 1968 - Civil Rights Acts.
1968 - M.L. King is assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee by a white racist.
1970s - rights to vote for all Blacks in the entire South. In Atlanta, a black mayor is elected for the first time. Chicago, Philadelphia, Detroit, Cleveland and DC follow.
1980s - "affirmative action" campaigns.
1984 - a former M.L. King's aide Rev. Jesse Jackson runs for President.
1992 - beating of Rodney King by white police officers triggers Black riots in parts of L.A.
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"Polglish" Vocabulary.
czendże - dżonk - ewnia - fiul -
flor - fruty - gabeć - gata -
grinole - kakroć - kara - kiesz -
kłodra - pary - plejserka - plejsy -
sekura- siet - strita - szapa -
ucho - wykarpetować -