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Jackie Robinson was the first African Amercian to play Major League Baseball. -
The exuctuive order was signed to make sure that everyone color and race got equal right aross the line. -
Rosa Parks was arrested for not givin gup her seat on the bus to a white person. -
This was a Civil Rights where the African Americans refused to ride the city bus to do discrimination. They also just wanted to make a point that they are no different then the whites. -
The Little rock 9 was 9 teenager who where walking out of their home and then stepped up in the act of civil rights. They are called this because they are indentified as the first african American students to desegregate the Litlle rock sentral highschool. -
When the Civil rights Act was passed this to action upon the first occasion since the reconstruction of the federal government which undertook significant legislative action to protect the civil rights. -
Is an Act of nonviolent protest against the segregated lunch counter. It was as sucess that led to a wider sit-in movement. -
Medgar Evens was coming home from a meeting when he was shot in the back. He was shot with a Eddystone Enfield 1917 rifle. He was killed because the bullet went through his heart. -
There were riots that have erupted the University of Mississippi in Oxford. What caused this was that an African American air force veteran that was attemping to integrate the all white school. -
The March On Washington was a speech delivered by Martin Luther King Jr. during the March On Washington for jobs and freedom -
Freedome summer was to help registrate the African American voter in the Mississippi and to challenge the racism and discrimination. -
This act was to enforce the fifteenth amendment to the constitution. The african Americans in the South faced all of diificulties to voting. -
Malcolm X was murdered byan assassin at a speech at the Audubon Ballroom in Manhattan. Malcolm was only 39 years old when he was killed and he left being his wife and 6 daughters. -
The Black Panther Party was formed by Huey P. Newton and Booby Seale, in which they met in college. It was an organization with ideology of Black nationalism , sociailism, and armed self defense, particulary against police brutality. -
Dr. Martin was killed by a single fire shot that had caused severe wounds on the lower right side of Dr. Martins face. This wasnt the sirst time that someone tried to assassinated Dr. Martin but the first time he had surivive. He died at the age of 39.