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Jackie Robinson
American baseball player who became the first black Major League Baseball (MLB) player of the modern era. Robinson broke the baseball color line when he debuted with the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947. As the first black man to play in the major leagues since the 1880s, he was instrumental in bringing an end to racial segregation in professional baseball, which had relegated black players to the Negro leagues for six decades. -
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De Jure Segregation
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Brown v. Board of Education
A landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court that declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students unconstitutional. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Rosa Parks Video!Rosa Parks began this movement when she refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white person; she was arrested but on December 20, 1956, Browder v. Gayle, took effect, and led to a US Supreme Court decision that declared the Alabama and Montgomery segregated buses to be unconstitutional. Many important figures in the civil rights movement took part in the boycott, including Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. and Ralph Abernathy. -
Little Rock Nine
A group of African American students enrolled in a previously all-white highsschool in 1957. On their first day, national gaurd troops did not allow them into the school and they were followed by mobs of angry students you threatened them. This lead to the Black Power Movement and then end of racial segregation. -
Greensburo Sit-in
a series of nonviolent protests which led to the Woolworth's department store chain reversing its policy of racial segregation in the Southern United States.
While not the first sit-ins of the African-American Civil Rights Movement, the Greensboro sit-ins were an instrumental action, leading to increased national sentiment at a crucial period in US history.[2] The primary event took place at the Greensboro, North Carolina Woolworth's store, now the International Civil Rights Center and Museum -
Freedom Riders
African American students that rode on a bus for several trips without giving up their seats in an effort to advocate black equality across the nation and ensure that congress enforced their newly passed laws about ending segregation on public transportation. -
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March on Washington
["I Have a Dream" Speech](<a href='http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V57lotnKGF8)' >I have a Dream Speech</a>
Millions of people marched through Washington to advocate black equality. Following this march he gave his famous "I have a Dream Speech," which promoted an end in racial segregation throughout the nation. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Granted African Americans equal protection under the law and upheld the 14th amendment. This act forbade discrimination based on sex or race when hiring/firing people. -
Voting Rights of 1964
The legislation stated that unifrom standards must prevail for establishing the right to vote. -
Thurgood Marshall
Thurgood Marshall was an American jurist and the first African American to serve on the Supreme Court of the United States. Before becoming a judge, he was an NAACP lawyer who was best remembered for his high success rate in arguing before the Supreme Court and for the victory in Brown v. Board of Education. He was nominated to the court by President B Lyndon Johnson in 1967
