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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. -
The Supreme court put an end to segregation in schooling and was allowing them to attend the same school -
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 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. -
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 -
The president at the time Eisenhower, ordered a 101st Airborne into little Rock to insure the safety of the Little Rock nine -
This action was noticed as the first legislative action to protect civil rights and give people the same treatment as whites -
This act was a protest against segregation lunch counter in Greensboro This was a successful movement. Spreading throughout the south -
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 -
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. -
This was a demand to end segregation fair wages and voting rights education, explaining it was passed due on civil rights and "freedom" -
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 -
What this law was about was getting rid of discrimination and segregation and allowing everyone equal rights and equality -
This was a landmark in the American Civil rights movement and this led to the ability for African Americans to have voting rights -
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