-
Jackie Robinson enters Major League Baseball
Jackie Robinson was a big deal in the upcoming civil rights movement he was the first African American to play Major league Baseball playing for the Brooklyn Dodgers. -
Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court Ruling
The Supreme court put an end to segregation in schooling and was allowing them to attend the same school -
Emmett Till is murdered
This boy was beaten and mutilated also shot in the head by two white men and they dumped his body in the river, his murder was the anchor of the civil rights movement -
Rosa Parks Arrest
Rosa Parks is a very famous women and will be forever known for not giving up her set for a white passenger on a bus, starting a protest and a movement for everyone. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
This was a 31 day protest, response for segregation on city buses and African Americans refused to get on one, leading to the supreme court ruling that segregation on public buses was unconstitutional -
Little Rock Nine Intervention
The president at the time Eisenhower, ordered a 101st Airborne into little Rock to insure the safety of the Little Rock nine -
Civil Rights Act of 1957 is passed
This action was noticed as the first legislative action to protect civil rights and give people the same treatment as whites -
Greensboro Sit-In Protest
This act was a protest against segregation lunch counter in Greensboro This was a successful movement. Spreading throughout the south -
Integration of Ole Miss Riots
Riots began at a campus in Mississippi in Oxford where locals students had gathered to protest the enrollment of a Black Air Force veteran attempting to integrate the all white school -
George Wallace’s “Stand in the Schoolhouse Door”
A protest by Alabama governor George Wallace fighting against integration with the Alabama university's, He did not allow TWO black students registering for classes before he was removed from the National Guard. -
March on Washington / I Have a Dream Speech
This was a demand to end segregation fair wages and voting rights education, explaining it was passed due on civil rights and "freedom" -
Freedom Summer
This was a civil rights campaign to register black voters in Mississippi, everyone flooded this event from coleges and schools from all over the states thus allowing equality -
Executive Order 9981 signed by President Truman
What this law was about was getting rid of discrimination and segregation and allowing everyone equal rights and equality -
The Selma Marches / Bloody Sunday
This was a landmark in the American Civil rights movement and this led to the ability for African Americans to have voting rights -
The Birmingham Children’s March
Hundreds of teenagers were arrested and carried off to jail in school buses and paddy wagons, one thousand students skipped classes and gathered to march downtown Birmingham bringing attention to integration efforts