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Jackie Robinson enters Major League Baseball
Jackie Robinson was the first African American to play Major League Baseball. And he was the first ever to break the color barrier when he took the field at Brooklyn on the team Brooklyn Dodgers -
Executive Order 9981 signed by President Truman
Harry Truman signed Executive Order 9981. Which created the President's Committee on Equality of Treatment and Opportunity in the Armed Services. -
Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court Ruling
In 1954 the case of the Brown v. Board of Education. The Supreme Court ruled that racial separation in public schools was unconstitutional. This decision overturned the Separate but Equal doctrine established in Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896. -
Emmett Hill was Murdered
Emmett Till was shopping at a grocery store he was accused of offending a white woman. And after that he got kidnapped then beaten then shot in the head at 14 years old. -
Rosa Parks Arrest
Rosa Parks Was arrested because she did not want to refuse her seat also meaning she didn't want to give up her seat to a white man. So the driver called the police she gets arrested but she does get bailed out tho.1 -
Civil Rights Act of 1957
This act was about to provide means of further securing and protecting the civil rights of the people within the power of the United States. And the president who has signed this was President Dwight D Eisenhower. -
Little Rock Nine Intervention
The federal government intervened to protect the students and enforce desegregation. To solve this President Dwight D. Eisenhower sent troops to get the people out of the school. -
Greensboro Sit-In Protest
This was a nonviolent protest that was in 1960. It took place at a Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina. And it ended by the store decided to desegregate its lunch counters. -
The Integration of Ole Miss Riots
This was a very violent protest against the enrollment of James Meredith at the University of Mississippi in 1962. And it ended by President John F. Kennedy sent federal troops and marshals quelled the violence and took control of the campus and town of Oxford. -
I Have a Dream Speech
This is a public speech that was delivered by Martin Luther King Jr. during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom on August 28, 1963. -
16th Street Baptist Church Bombing
This was a terrorist bombing attack on 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama on September 15, 1963. The bombing was committed by a white supremacist terrorist group. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
This act prohibited discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, and national origin in public accommodations, employment, and voting registration. -
Malcolm X is murdered
Malcolm X was assassinated on February 21, 1965. He while preparing to give a speech at the Audubon Ballroom in Harlem, New York. He was 39 years old which was way to young -
Voting Rights Act of 1965 was passed
This act was enacted on August 6, 1965. and it prohibited states from imposing qualifications or practices to deny the right to vote on account of race. -
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is assassinated
Martin Luther King was shot to death on April 4, 1968, as he stood on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. Moments before the fatal shot rang out at 6:01 PM on that tragic day.