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NAACP was founded
A diverse group of social reformers including W.E.B. Du Bois, Ida B. Wells, Archibald Grimke, Mary Church Terrell, Henry Moskowitz, William English Walling, and Mary White Ovington founded the NAACP. -
Jackie Robinson joined the Brooklyn Dodgers
Jackie Robinson joined the Brooklyn Dodgers on April 15, 1947, making his debut as the first Black player in modern Major League Baseball. -
Brown v. Board of Education
Brown v. Board of Education was a landmark 1954 Supreme Court case that outlawed racial segregation in public schools. -
Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man-
An African American woman, refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama bus to a white passenger, an act of defiance that sparked the Montgomery bus boycott and became a pivotal moment in the Civil Rights Movement. -
Congress passed the Civil Rights Act of 1957
The Civil Rights Act of 1957, the first federal civil rights legislation since 1875, was passed by Congress and signed into law by President Dwight D. Eisenhower on September 9, 1957. -
Desegregation of Central High in Little Rock, Arkansas
The Little Rock Nine, the first African American students to integrate Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, successfully entered the school with federal troop escort on September 25, 1957 -
Sit-in at Woolworth’s lunch counter
When four African American students sat at a "whites-only" lunch counter, refusing to leave when asked -
Congress passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964
Congress passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which was signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson, on July 2, 1964 -
CORE “freedom ride”
Freedom Ride, aimed at desegregating interstate bus travel, began on May 4, 1961, when 13 black and white activists left Washington, D.C., bound for New Orleans. -
Dr. King was thrown into Birmingham Jail
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was arrested and jailed in Birmingham on April 12, 1963, for violating a court injunction against civil rights demonstrations. -
March on Washington
The purpose of the march was to advocate for the civil and economic rights of African Americans. -
Voting Rights Act
An act to enforce the fifteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States and for other purposes -
“Bloody Sunday”
This demonstration of factory workers was brutally put down by Russian soldiers -
Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated
Martin Luther King Jr., an American civil rights activist, was fatally shot at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4, 1968, at 6:01 p.m. CST. He was rushed to St. Joseph's Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 7:05 p.m at age 39