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Jackie Robinson enters MLB
Jackie Robinson entered the Major League of Baseball which had been completely white-dominated, but he stepped out on the Ebbets Field in Brooklyn to compete for the Dodgers. Branch Rickey signed Robinson in 1945 to play for the Brooklyn Dodgers. He was recorded in the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1962. -
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Civil Rights Timeline
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Brown v. Board of Education
A crucial Supreme Court case ruled by Chief Justice Earl and the other eight justices that inhibition of black individuals from white schools directly tampered with the 14th Amendment which protects individuals' legality value. The case furrowed when Oliver Brown enrolled his daughter at a public school in Topeka, Kansas which she was promptly evicted from. Other Children and parents were subject to this. The case rose from local, state, and finally to National. -
Little Rock Nine inducted into Little Rock Central High School in Arkansas
A group of black students denied enrollment in Little Rock High initially by Orval Faubus, governor of Arkansas at the time that bolstered many segregationist protocols. The nine were finally validated to enroll, and President Eisenhower had to send the National Guard as a vanguard for the integration. -
Greensboro sit-in
A conglomeration of peaceful protests conducted in the establishment of the F. W. Woolworth Company. The sit-in was successful as the company forbade it previously adhered to racial parameters and restrictions. 70,000 people participated. -
March on Washington/I have a Dream Speech
A march stimulated by A. Philip Randolph and Bayard Rustin. This march is denoted as a symbol for better jobs and economical changes for blacks. Around 200,000 to 300,000 attended with 80% being black. Dr. King also made a speech, you may have heard of it, and it was done in front of the Lincoln Memorial. Dr. King explained that the deterioration of the parameters of blacks and white would furrow sociological endeavors much more. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
A law validated and passed by Lyndon B. Johnson and his administration. The civil policy discarded the legality of discrimination on any religion, sex, nationality, and or color. Legal powers that sanctioned this act were the strongest, but they were bulwarked later down the line. Kennedy initiated a grapple on Civil Rights before he died, and Johnson ran the ball once Kennedy was gone. -
March to Selma, Alabama
At the state level, many political adversaries of the civil rights regime exploited laws and disenfranchised many civil rights endeavors. Among those was the March To Selma, Alabama. The goal was to march from Brown Chapel to Sela, but the advocates were stopped and beaten by local law enforcement at the Edmund Pettus Bridge. The reinstitution of the march was set with Dr. King attending it, and the march was now backed by federal protection the second time. -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
A gargantuan policy passed amidst the Civil Rights Movement. This policy was culminated to fortify the previous 14th and 15th Amendment which dealt with citizenship and suffrage. The act adhered to provisions that helped fix the previous amendments and dilated their legal protections. -
Loving v. Virginia
A landmark civil rights case denoted as the policy to discard restrictions on interracial marriage. The plaintiffs were Mildred and Richard Loving. They lived in a county of Virginia that was staunch to Jim-Crow Laws, and the case ran up the judicial branches before being proclaimed unconstitutional by Chief Justice Earl Warren and the Supreme Court. -
Dr. King's Assassination
In Memphis, Tennessee, Dr. King was assassinated via a sniper shot by James Earl Ray. King was endeavoring a strike for black sanitation workers in Memphis where he was shot outside his motel. He was hastily rushed to St. Joseph's Hospital where he promptly died 1 hour and 4 minutes after being shot.
