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1963: Loyola of Chicago started four black players in the NCAA Championship game, which is the historical precedent to the Texas Western/Kentucky game
July 2, 1964: Enactment of the Civil Rights Act
April 4, 1968: MLK Assassinated
January 20, 2009: Barack Obama sworn in as first African-American President of the USA
January 1, 1868: President Abraham Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation, abolishing slavery in the USA
1931: George Gregory, Jr., of Columbia University, becomes the first African American all-American college basketball player
May 18, 1896: U.S. Supreme Court issues Plessy v. Ferguson, establishing the "separate but equal" doctrine, which allowed racial segregation of public facilities, including schools, as long as they were of equal quality
March 17, 1939: First NCAA Men's Basketball Championship
April 15, 1947: Jackie Robinson breaks major league baseball color barrier with the Brooklyn Dodgers
1950: NBA's color barrier broken by three black men: Chuck Cooper, Earl Lloyd, and Nat Clifton
May 17, 1954: U.S. Supreme Court issues Brown v. Board of Education, declaring the segregation of public schools unconstitutional, and overruling Plessy v. Ferguson
1954: University of Kentucky's undergraduate classes desegregated
January 20, 1961: John F. Kennedy elected President of the USA
1961: Landmark federal court decision ordering University of Georgia to desegregate
1962: 10%--percentage of Black NCAA mens' basketball players