Birth of Civil Rights Movement

By marshj16

  • Jackie Robinson

    The Brooklyn Dodgers signed Jackie Robinson to their team

  • Military Segregation

    In 1948, Harry Truman ordered and end to segregation in the military.

  • School Segregation

    The Supreme Court ruled against segregation in schools. That was the case of Brown v. the Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas

  • Rosa Parks Refuses to Give Away Seat

    She sat in a white man's seat and she refused to give it away so she was arrested

  • Buses Desegregate

    In December 1956, the U.S. ruled that Montgomery buses had to desegregate

  • African American Kids Enter Schools

    Nine African American teenagers tried to enter an all-white Central High School in Little Rock

  • Little Rock Closes

    Little Rock closes its public schools so it wouldn't have to integrate the colored kids