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NAACP was founded
The NAACP, which stands for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, is an interracial American organization dedicated to fighting racial inequality and ensuring the civil rights of African Americans. -
Jackie Robinson joined the Brooklyn Dodgers
Jackie Robinson joined the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1945, making his Major League debut on April 15, 1947, and became the first African American to play in Major League Baseball in the modern era. -
Brown v. Board of Education
"Brown v. Board of Education" refers to a landmark 1954 Supreme Court case that ruled racial segregation in public schools to be unconstitutional -
Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man
Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama on December 1, 1955. Her act of defiance sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott and became a defining moment in the civil rights movement -
Congress passed the Civil Rights Act of 1957
The Civil Rights Act of 1957, the first federal civil rights legislation since Reconstruction, established a Civil Rights Division in the Justice Department and empowered the Attorney General to seek federal court injunctions to protect voting rights, as well as creating a temporary Civil Rights Commission to investigate voting problems -
Desegregation of Central High in Little Rock, Arkansas
The desegregation of Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1957, a pivotal moment in the Civil Rights Movement, involved the integration of nine African American students, known as the "Little Rock Nine," into the previously all-white school, sparking a national crisis when state authorities, led by Governor Orval Faubus, resisted federal orders to integrate. -
Sit-in at Woolworth’s lunch counter
A "sit-in at Woolworth's lunch counter" refers to a pivotal nonviolent protest during the Civil Rights Movement where African American students would sit at a segregated lunch counter at a Woolworth's department store, refusing to leave until served, often in defiance of "Whites Only" policies -
CORE “freedom ride”
In 1961 CORE aimed to desegregate public transportation throughout the south, known as the “Freedom Rides”. The first Freedom Ride took place on May 4, 1961; seven blacks and six whites left Washington, D.C., on two public buses bound for the Deep South. The ride aimed to test the Supreme Court's ruling in Boynton v. -
Dr. King was thrown into Birmingham Jail
Martin Luther King Jr. and at least 55 others, almost all of whom were Black, were jailed for “parading without a permit” during a march against segregation in Birmingham, Alabama. A crowd of over 1,000 activists joined Dr. King, the Rev. -
March on Washington
The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, held on August 28, 1963, was a historic civil rights demonstration in Washington, D.C., where over 250,000 people gathered to advocate for civil and economic rights for African Americans, culminating in Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech -
Congress passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964
The Civil Rights Act of 1964, passed by Congress, aimed to end discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin in the United States, particularly in employment, voting, and public accommodations -
Voting Rights Act
This act was signed into law 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. -
Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated
At 6:05 P.M. on Thursday, 4 April 1968, Martin Luther King was shot dead while standing on a balcony outside his second-floor room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. News of King's assassination prompted major outbreaks of racial violence, resulting in more than 40 deaths nationwide and extensive property -
“Bloody Sunday”
"Bloody Sunday" refers to two distinct, yet impactful, events: the 1905 massacre in St. Petersburg, Russia, where peaceful demonstrators were fired upon by the Imperial Guard, and the 1965 violent suppression of a civil rights march in Selma, Alabama where 30 people were shot