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Emmett is Born
Emmett Louis Till was born as the only child to Louis and Mamie Till. -
African American Major Leauge Player
Jackie Robinson becomes the first African-American in major league baseball when he plays his first game with the Brooklyn Dodgers -
Brown vs. Topeka Board of Education
Unanimously held Supreme Court decision that said that racial segregation of children in public schools violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteen amendment. -
Emmett Till's Death
Emmett was tortured and killed by Roy Bryant and his half-brother J. W. Milam near Money, Mississippi because of his race. -
Rosa Parks refuses to get out of Seat
Rosa parks sat and refused to get of the seat where the white people sat in the Montgomery buses. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
A Boycott started by Rosa Parks which lasted 382 day, from December 5, 1955, to December 20, 1956. It all started because she stood for herself and her race and did not get out of the seat that was reserved for whites only. -
KIllers admit to the the crime of Killing Emmett Till
Look magazine published the confessions of J.W. Milam and Roy Bryant, two white men from Mississippi who were acquitted in the 1955 kidnapping and murder of Emmett Louis Till. -
First African American Student at the University of Mississippi
James Meredith became the first black student to enroll at the University of Mississippi even though at first they wouldn’t let him join because of his race. -
I Have a Dream
Martin Luther King I Have a Dream speech talks about how he wishes in the future all races will be treated the same. -
Bomb in Birmingham
On September 15, 1963, the Ku Klux Klan bombed the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, killing four girls. This murderous act shocked the nation and galvanized the civil rights movement. -
MLK Receives Nobel Prize
Martin Luther King received the Nobel Prize because of his contribuations to make blacks and whites equal.
