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Creation of the NAACP
The NAACP was created in 1909 by an interracial group consisting of W.E.B. Du Bois, Ida Bell Wells-Barnett, Mary White Ovington, and others concerned with the challenges facing African Americans, especially in the wake of the 1908 Springfield (Illinois) Race Riot -
scottsboro boys
were nine black teenagers accused in Alabama of raping two White American women on a train in 1931 -
Jackie Robinson Breaks the Color Barrier
back then all baseball teams were segergated jackie robinson was the first african american to play on a white people baseball team. -
Brown VS board of education
The story of Brown v. Board of Education, which ended legal segregation in public schools, is one of hope and courage. When the people agreed to be plaintiffs in the case, they never knew they would change history. -
Ruby Bridges desegregate elementary school
Ruby Bridges was the first African-American child to attend an all-white public elementary school in the American South. -
The murder of Emmit TIll
14-year-old Emmett Till, an African American from Chicago, is brutally murdered for flirting with a white woman four days earlier. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
four days before the boycott began, Rosa Parks, an African-American woman, refused to yield her seat to a white man on a Montgomery bus. -
the little rock 9
Three years after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously in Brown v. Board of Education that separate educational facilities are inherently unequal, nine African American students -
Letter from a Birmingham Jail
A letter from martin luther king jr when he was in birmingham jail. -
the civil rights act of 1964
This act, signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson on July 2, 1964, prohibited discrimination in public places, provided for the integration of schools and other public facilities, and made employment discrimination illegal. -
Assassination of Malcolm X
Malcolm X was shot before he was about to deliver a speech about his new organization called the Organization of Afro-American Unity. -
Creation of the Black Panthers
It was a Black political organization; originally known as the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense. -
Thurgood Marshall Named Supreme Court Justice
President Lyndon Johnson appoints U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Thurgood Marshall to fill the seat of retiring Supreme Court Associate Justice Tom C. Clark. On August 30 -
Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was shot and mortally wounded as he stood on the second-floor balcony outside his room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tenn. He was pronounced dead at 7:05 p.m. at St. Joseph Hospital. -
Election of Barak Obama
On November 4, 2008, Senator Barack Obama of Illinois was elected president of the United States over Senator John McCain of Arizona.
