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Jackie Robinson enters Major League Baseball
Jackie Robinson became the first African American to join the MLB. -
Executive Order 9981 signed by President Truman
this is what desegregated the U.S.A. -
Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court Ruling
the separation of black and white students was ruled unconstitutional -
Emmett Till is murdered
Emmett was kidnapped, beaten ,shot , and had a metal fan tied to his neck with barbed wire. He was later thrown into the Tallahatchie River -
Rosa Parks Arrest
Rosa parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a bus.She was later bailed out of jail by Civil Rights leader E. D. Nixon -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
this is when multiple people in America stop taking the bus to prevent the bus company from get money -
Little Rock Nine Intervention
when the president had to send military to escort black children to school -
Civil Rights Act of 1957 is passed
this was signed to protect African American citizens -
Greensboro Sit-In Protest
the nonviolent protest for segregated lunch -
Integration of Ole Miss Riots
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. -
The Birmingham Children’s March
a march led by students. They wanted to talk to the mayor about segregation in their city -
George Wallace’s “Stand in the Schoolhouse Door”
a symbolic protest by Alabama governor George Wallace against integration of Alabama public universities -
March on Washington / I Have a Dream Speech
The speech MLK gave to address the nation . This was at the Abraham monument -
Freedom Summer
this was a civil rights movement to register as many African American people as possible -
The Selma Marches / Bloody Sunday
protester were brutally attacked by state troopers. This drawed the attention of the nation