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Jackie Robinson was the first African American to play Major League Baseball. He joined the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947 and now is in the National Baseball Hall of Fame. -
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Earl Warren delivered the unanimous ruling in the landmark civil rights case Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas. State-sanctioned segregation of public schools was a violation of the 14th amendment and was therefore unconstitutional. -
The Montgomery bus boycott was a political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama. It was a foundational event in the civil rights movement in the United States. -
While visiting family in Money, Mississippi, 14-year-old Emmett Till, an African American from Chicago, is brutally murdered. He allegedly flirted with a white woman four days earlier. -
The Little Rock Nine were a group of nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957. Their enrollment was followed by the Little Rock Crisis, in which the students were initially prevented from entering the racially segregated school by Orval Faubus, the Governor of Arkansas. -
On September 30, 1962, riots erupted on the campus of the University of Mississippi in Oxford where locals, students, and committed segregationists had gathered to protest the enrollment of James Meredith, a black Air Force veteran attempting to integrate the all-white school. -
The Selma to Montgomery marches were three protest marches, held in 1965, along the 54-mile highway from Selma, Alabama, to the state capital of Montgomery. Caused by the murder of Jimmie Lee Jackson. -
The Children's Crusade, or Children's March, was a march by over 1,000 school students in Birmingham, Alabama on May 2–3, 1963. Initiated and organized by Rev. James Bevel, the purpose of the march was to walk downtown to talk to the mayor about segregation in their city. -
The Stand in the Schoolhouse Door took place at Foster Auditorium at the University of Alabama. The "stand in the schoolhouse door" incident was Alabama Governor George Wallace's symbolic opposition to school integration imposed by the federal government. -
A white group bombed a black church and killed 4 Children inside. The group was Klan related. -
A summer in 1964 to increase the amounts of African American citizens that vote in Mississippi. It made it a public event not just for Mississippi but the southern states -
Congress passed Public Law 88-352 (78 Stat. 241). The Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin. Provisions of this civil rights act forbade discrimination on the basis of sex, as well as, race in hiring, promoting, and firing. -
The Black Panther Party, originally the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense, was a Marxist-Leninist Black Power political organization founded by college students Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton in Oakland, California. -
Virginia, legal case in which the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously struck down state antimisce genation statutes in Virginia as unconstitutional under the equal protection and due process clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment. -
Martin Luther was assassinated in Memphis TN on a hotel balcony. He was assassinated by James Earl Ray and was sentenced 99-years in prison.