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Jack Roosevelt Robinson was an American professional baseball player who became the first African American to play in Major League Baseball in the modern era. -
On July 26, 1948, President Harry Truman signed Executive Order 9981, creating the President's Committee on Equality of Treatment and Opportunity in the Armed Services. -
Emmett Louis Till was an African American boy who was abducted, tortured, and lynched in Mississippi in 1955 at the age of 14 -
Rosa Parks was arrested in Montgomery, Alabama, after a bus driver ordered her to give up her bus seat to a white passenger, and she refused. -
The Little Rock Nine were a group of nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957. who faced resistance from the local government -
The Children's Crusade, or Children's March, was a march by over 5,000 school students in Birmingham, Alabama on May 2–10, 1963. -
I Have a Dream, speech by Martin Luther King, Jr., that was delivered on August 28, 1963, during the March on Washington. -
The 16th Street Baptist Church bombing was a terrorist bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama on September 15, 1963 -
a volunteer campaign in the United States launched to attempt to register as many African-American voters as possible in Mississippi. -
It was during a meeting of the Congress of Racial Equality that Malcolm X delivered this speech, t addressed the racial divide and religious isolation of the time. -
Malcolm X, an African American Muslim minister and human rights activist who was a popular figure during the civil rights movement, was shot multiple times and died from his wounds in Manhattan, New York City -
The Black Panther Party was a Marxist–Leninist and black power political organization founded by college students Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton -
Martin Luther King was shot dead while standing on a balcony outside his second-floor room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. -
During their medal ceremony in the Olympic Stadium Tommie Smith and John Carlos, each raised their fists, signifying black power -
Bloody Sunday, or the Bogside Massacre, was a massacre on 30 January 1972 when British soldiers shot 26 unarmed civilians during a protest march in the Bogside area of Derry, Northern Ireland.