Events in the Civil Rights Movement

  • 1947

    1947

    The Brooklyn Dodgers signed Jackie Robinson to their team.
  • 1948

    1948

    Harry Truman orders to end segregation in the military.
  • 1954

    1954

    The Supreme Court rules against segregation in schools
  • 1955

    1955

    Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat to a white man on a public bus.
  • 1957

    1957

    Martin Luther King Jr. and others formed the southern Christian Leadership Conference. (SCLC)
  • 1957

    1957

    Nine African American teenagers tried to enter an all white central high school in little rock.
  • 1957

    1957

    The students tried again but couldn't get in. The next day President Dwight Eisenhower sent U.S. army troops to take the Little Rock Nine to school.

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