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Jackie Robinson enters Major League Baseball
Jackie Robinson made his MLB debut in 1947. People of both teams would harass, and throw stuff at Jackie, he overcame these as much as he could, every game. Team players were threatening to strike if he were allowed to continue to play, the NLP threatened to suspend any who took action against the MLB. -
Executive Order 9981
Executive Order 9981 states a list of anti-segregation policies. Examples of these policies include equal treatment and opportunity for military service and rules and procedures should be respectfully changed to fit these policies. There are many other things listed, but I am unable to type them all, plus I don't understand most of them. -
Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court Ruling
This court ruling was caused by a state-sanctioned segregation act. This act segregated public schools and went against the 14th amendment of black students and was deemed unconstitutional. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
The Boycotts were started in response to the segregation on the bus and the arrest of Rosa Parks. People were avoiding taking the bus and walking instead, the industry started to go downhill after that. -
Emmett Till is murdered
Emmett was visiting Mississippi on a family matter, he was murdered for potentially flirting with a white woman prior to his murder. This caused a rise of anger in people's hearts, the killers were convicted and jailed. -
Voting Rights Act of 1965 is passed
The act was signed on August 6, 1965, by President Lyndon Johnson. It outlawed the discriminatory voting practices adopted in many southern states after the Civil War, including literacy tests as a prerequisite to voting. -
Civil Rights Act of 1957 is passed
This act was able to go against the interference of Blacks voting. This gave the CRC authority to investigate discrimination and to give appropriate actions to be taken to protect the voting of African-Americans. -
Greensboro Sit-In Protest
This act was when African-American students sat down at a segregated lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina. They refused to get up and leave, even after they were denied any service. This slowly started to spread through towns in the South. -
16th Street Baptist Church Bombing
This bombing occurred in Birmingham, Alabama in 1963. The bombing ignited in a church, it killed three little girls and left one living without a right eye. Everyone had known it was a bombing and not an accident because it was not the first of many that happened in Birmingham. -
George Wallace’s “Stand in the Schoolhouse Door”
George Wallace stood firm in the doorway of a schoolhouse and blocked African American students. He did this in the hope that the governor of Alabama would keep segregation and stop the desegregation of schools. JFK issued the national guard to stand near and command Wallace to step aside to let the students into the school. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964 is passed
This act was passed to prohibit discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. This protected the civil rights of different sex and race for hiring, promoting, and firing. -
Freedom Summer
The Mississippi Summer Project was a voting drive aimed at gaining numbers of registered blacks that vote in Mississippi and fighting back intimidation and violence at the voting polls. The CORE, SNCC, and COFO were the groups that organized the movement. -
Black Panther Party is formed
The original name was the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense. It was founded in 1966 in Oakland, California, by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale. The party’s original purpose was to patrol African American neighborhoods to protect residents from acts of police brutality. -
Loving v. Virginia Supreme Court ruling
This court case was about two love birds that were married out of state but came back as husband and wife. Since the state they lived in had a ban on interracial marriage, they couldn't be married and if they were, they had to spend 1 to 5 years in jail/prison. The case was set into stone to gain justice for what had been brought upon them. -
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is assassinated
Martin Luther King Jr. was shot at 6:05 P.M. on April 4, 1968. The news of Martin's death had brought outbreaks of violence, about 40 people were killed nationwide due to property damages. Late James Earl Ray confessed to the assassination and was sentenced to spend 99-years in prison.