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On April 15, 1947, Jackie Robinson made history by becoming the first African American to play in Major League Baseball, debuting for the Brooklyn Dodgers and breaking the color barrier in the sport. -
abolished discrimination based on race, color, religion, or national origin in the U.S. armed forces, mandating equality of treatment and opportunity. -
In the landmark 1954 case Brown v. Board of Education, the Supreme Court unanimously ruled that racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional. -
The murder of Emmett Till was the catalyst for the grassroots civil rights movement. -
On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks was arrested in Montgomery, Alabama, for disorderly conduct for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white man. -
The Montgomery bus boycott, sparked by Rosa Parks' arrest for refusing to give up her seat on a bus, was a 13-month protest where African Americans in Montgomery, Alabama, refused to ride city buses to protest segregation, ultimately leading to the desegregation of public transportation. -
On September 9, 1957, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed into law the Civil Rights Act of 1957. -
Rock Nine crisis by sending federal troops to Little Rock, Arkansas in 1957. This was to protect the kids who were facing harassment by racist people. -
The Greensboro sit-in, a pivotal moment in the Civil Rights Movement, began on February 1, 1960, when four Black students from North Carolina AT State University sat at a "whites-only" lunch counter in a Woolworth's store. -
On September 30, 1962, riots erupted on the campus of the University of Mississippi in Oxford where locals, students, and committed segregationists had gathered to protest the enrollment of James Meredith, a black Air Force veteran attempting to integrate the all-white school. -
Birmingham Children's Crusade, nonviolent protest against segregation held by Black children on May 2–10, 1963, in Birmingham, Alabama. -
Alabama Governor George Wallace stood in a schoolhouse door and told U.S. Justice Department officials that his state Constitution forbade two black students from entering. -
On June 12, 1963, civil rights activist Medgar Evers was shot in the back as he returned home from an NAACP meeting in Jackson, Mississippi, and died shortly after. -
This was Dr Martin Luther King Jrs most famous speech he gave, and also arguably his most popular speech. He gave this speech in hopes to unite the White and Black people of America to spark change for voting rights and equality for African American people. -
The 16th Street Baptist Church bombing was a terrorist bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama on September 15, 1963. -
Freedom Summer, a pivotal 1964 initiative in the civil rights movement, focused on registering African-American voters in Mississippi, facing violence and resistance, and ultimately leading to increased awareness of voting rights. -
The Civil Rights Act of 1964, a landmark piece of legislation, was signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson on July 2, 1964, prohibiting discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. -
Malcolm X was one of the biggest civil rights activists of the 50´s and 60´s, rather than Dr Martin Luther King Jr's peacful approach, Malcolm X was willing to do any means needed. Malcolm X was killed in 1965 when three armed men shot him 21 times as he was preparing to speak in New York. -
That day became known as "Bloody Sunday," whenever civil rights activists attempted to peacefully march across the Edmund Petus Bridge in Selma while on their way to Montgomery, the state's capital. -
A conference committee reconciled the House and Senate versions, which both bodies adopted. On August 6, 1965, President Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act in the President's Room just off the Senate Chamber. -
The Black Panther Party was founded on October 1966 in Oakland, California by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale, who met at Merritt College in Oakland. -
In the landmark 1967 case Loving v. Virginia, the Supreme Court unanimously ruled that Virginia's anti-miscegenation law, which prohibited interracial marriage, violated the Fourteenth Amendment's Equal Protection and Due Process Clauses. -
Martin Luther King Jr., an American civil rights activist, was fatally shot at the Lorraine Motel after a speech in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4, 1968, at 6:01 p.m.