Civil rights timeline

  • Jackie Robinson joking the MLB

    Jackie Robinson joking the MLB
    Jackie Robinson was the First ever Black Person to ever Join Major league baseball. He was a very great player that had to play through hatred and was mistreated terribly just because he is black. He was one of the greats not just for his courage but also being the Rookie of the year, The national league MVP, The NL batting champion, a world series Champion, a six-time All-star and twice led the ledge in stolen bases. He changed baseball forever.
  • Executive order 9981

    Executive order 9981
    This Executive order 9981 was a order signed by President Truman that mandated the desegregation of the US armed forces. This ensured all equal opportunities and treated equal, no matter what race, religion or nationality
  • Emmett till murdering

    Emmett till murdering
    Emmett was a 14 year old kid that was living in Mississippi, and apparently had whistled at a white women at her shop then was reported that he was beaten, shot , and found in the Tallahachtie River.
  • Rosa Parks arrest

    Rosa Parks arrest
    Rosa Parks arrest will go down as one of those most important things in history. She had gotten on the bus and sat down and she was then placed under arrest because she did not give her seat up to a white man. Civil rights leader E.D Nixon then bailed her out. This started the Civil rights movement to gain change and get what is right.
  • Montgomery Bus Boycott

    Montgomery Bus Boycott
    The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a 381 day protest that took place in Montgomery Alabama. This protest was started for the reason of the segregation taking place on the city busses. This led to the supreme court ruling that it was unconstitutional and fought and got what they wanted.
  • Civil rights Act

    Civil rights Act
    The civil rights Act is one of the first major civil rights legislation since the Reconstruction Era. This act was implanted to protect Black Americans from the denied right of voting
  • The Greensboro protest

    The Greensboro protest
    This was a not violent protest that was to take away segregation in the Woolworth company this eventually led to them taking the policy of racial segregation away
  • The Birmingham children's march

    The Birmingham children's march
    This was a march that was held by over 1000 African American students to protest segregation they met at the 16th street Baptist church and marched down Birmingham Alabama to get what they deserve.
  • I have a dream speech

    I have a dream speech
    The I have a dream speech was a speech that was Delivered by Martin Luther King Jr and this speech will go down as one of the most important events in history, with change forever. The speech was delivered to show African Americans will be free and have independence and Everyone be equal.
  • The 16th street Baptist church bombing.

    The 16th street Baptist church bombing.
    This Church bombing took place in Birmingham, Alabama. This bombing was done by a white supremacy group Also known as the KKK. This bombing took the life of 4 innocent African American little girls .
  • Freedom summer

    Freedom summer
    Freedom summer was a protest of 100 college students went into Mississippi. the students had one goal and it was to increase voter registration among African Americans in Mississippi.
  • Civil Rights Act of 1964

    Civil Rights Act of 1964
    The Civil Rights Act of 1964 created a lot of new things. One of them being Prohibiting discrimination in public places. It also provided the integration of schools and other public facilities it also made employment discrimination illegal.
  • Malcom X murder

    Malcom X murder
    Malcom X was a civil rights activist that caused great change in the movement because of his approach toward things, he wanted change quickly but unfortunately was shot to death inside Harlem's Audubon Ballroom in New York.
  • Civil rights act of 1965

    Civil rights act of 1965
    The Civil Rights Act of 1965 took away the discriminatory voting practices that was used in a lot of southern states After the civil war. Also took away the literacy test to vote.
  • The black panther party

    The black panther party
    This was a organization that was founded by two college students that was wrote for ideology of Black nationalism, socialism, and armed self defense, mainly against police brutality