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Jackie Robinson signed with the Brooklyn Dodgers and this broke the racial barrier in major league sports. Jackie Robinson went on to become one of the greatest players of all time. -
President Harry S. Truman signed Executive Order 9981 and this mandated the desegregation of the United States military. This ended segregation in the military not just on race but also on religion and national origin. -
The Supreme Court ruled unanimously in Brown v. Board of Education that segregation in schools was not constitutional. This decision reversed the "separate but equal" doctrine that had been established in Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896. -
Emmett Till was a 14 year old African-American boy who was kidnapped and brutally lynched on accusations of whistling at a white woman in her family store. At his funeral he had an open casket so the world could see what they had done to Emmett. -
Rosa Parks was a civil rights activist who is most known for refusing to give up her seat to a white person in protest. This sparked the Montgomery bus boycott. -
The Montgomery bus boycott was a 381 day protest in where African-Americans and other people who supported the movement did not ride any buses in Montgomery, Alabama. This boycott sparked when Rosa Parks was arrested for giving up her seat on a bus. -
The Civil Rights Act of 1957 was a bill signed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower and was meant to protect black voters rights. This bill helped outlaw Jim Crow laws in the South. -
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 is a federal legislation that prohibits racial discrimination in voting. It was signed into law by President Lyndon B Johnson. -
People didn't think the police would show brutality towards children so they organized a peaceful protest and marched through the city of Birmingham. They were wrong and it backfired because the police showed up and used force to end the protest. -
The March on Washington was when a quarter of a million people gathered by the Washington Monument to peacefully protest and hear Dr. King speak. This is when Dr. King gave his "I have a Dream" speech. -
On September 15, 1964, the KKK bombed the 16th St. Baptist Church as a demonstration of pure racial hatred. This tragic explosion claimed the lives of 4 little girls and injured several others. -
Malcolm X was a very profound Civil Rights Activist and was a member of the Black Panther party. Malcolm X was assisinated for his efforts. -
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, and national origin. It also prohibited segregation in public places, and made employment discrimination illegal. -
The Black Panther Party was a Marxist–Leninist and black power political organization founded by college students Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton in October 1966 in Oakland, California. It was a revolutionary organization with an ideology of Black nationalism, socialism, and armed self-defense, particularly against police brutality. -
Martin Luther King Jr. is the most famous Civil Rights activist during the Civil Rights Movement. Unfortuantley, he was assisinated for his efforts and this actually "ended" the movement.