Baylee Frisinger and Kelsey Fitzpatrick

Plessy V. Ferguson

Dec 25, 1896

NAACP founded

Dec 25, 1909

FDR bans discrimination in defense industry

Dec 25, 1941

CORE founded

Dec 25, 1942

An American Dilema Published

Dec 25, 1944

A 1944 study of race relations. The author is a Swedish Noble-Laureate economist named Gunnar Myrdal. It sold more than 100,000 copies. It was enormously influential in how racial issues were viewed in the U.S. It was important to the Civil Rights Movement because it was a positive outlook on the future of race rekations in America, taking a view that democracy would triumoh over racism.

Jackie Robinson breaks MLB color barrier

Dec 25, 1945

Jackie Robinson was an American who became the first African American to play in the major league baseball. Robinson broke the baseball color line when the Brooklyn Dodgers started him at first base. The example of Robinson character and talent challenged the traditional basis of segregation, which then marked many other aspects of American life, and then contriubted significantly to the civil rights movement.

Truman desegregates the Military

Dec 25, 1948

Brown V. Borad of Education

Dec 25, 1954

Emmet Till murdered

Aug 28, 1955

Emmet Till was a Africian American boy that was killed for flirting with a white women. He was born July 25, 1942 and died on August 28, 1955. This was important in the Civil Rights Movement because it was a murder that showed how bad racism was.

Rosa Parks arrested

Dec 1, 1955

An African American civil rights activists. The U.S congress called her "The First Lady of the CIvil Righs Movement" and "The Mother of the Freedom Movement". On December 1st 1955, Parks refused to obey a bus drivers order to give her seat up to a white passenger. Soon after that she was arrested. She was important to the Civil Rights MOvement because she became a international icon of resistance to racial segeration.

SCLC Founded

Dec 25, 1957

Little Rock 9 intergrate Central High School

Dec 25, 1957

Sit-ins start in Greensboro, NC

Feb 1, 1960

A sit-in is a form of direct action that involves one or more people nonviolenty protesting. It took place at Greenboro, North Carolina Woolworms Store. After 3 weeks, the movement successfully got the store to change its policy. This movement was quickly followed in the same year by a sit-in at a Katz Drug store in Oklahoma City, which was also successful. The events made headlines and recieved government attention. The street south of the site was named Feburary One Place.

SNCC founded

Dec 25, 1960

Freedom Rides

Dec 25, 1961

JFK assassianted

Nov 22, 1962

James Meredith intergrated Ole Miss

Dec 25, 1962

24th Ammendment ratified

Dec 25, 1962

Madger Evers assassianted

Jun 12, 1963

March on Washington

Aug 28, 1963

16th Street Baptist Church bombing

Sep 15, 1963

Letter from Birmingham Jail

Dec 25, 1963

Freedom Summers Murders

Dec 25, 1964

Malcom X assassianted

Feb 21, 1965

"Bloody Sunday" in Salem Alabama

Mar 7, 1965

Voteing Rights of 1965

Dec 25, 1965

Black Panter Party Founded

Dec 25, 1966

Dr. King assassianted

Apr 4, 1968

RFK assassianted

Jun 5, 1968

Tommie Smith and John Carlos protest at the summer Olympics

Dec 25, 1968

Montgoery Bus Boycott

Dec 25, 1986

Byron de la Beckwith convicted of Medgar Evers Murder

Dec 25, 1994

Edgar Ray Killen convicted of Freedom Summer Murder

Jun 21, 2005