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A 14-year-old African American who was lynched in Mississippi in 1955, after being accused of offending a white woman in her family's grocery store. The brutality of his murder and the fact that his killers were acquitted drew attention to the long history of violent persecution of African Americans in the United States. Till posthumously became an icon of the civil rights movement. -
He was the first African American to play Major League Baseball when he debuted for the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947. He's in the National Baseball hall of Fame. -
President Harry S. Truman signed the order establishing the President’s Committee on Equality of Treatment and Opportunity in the Armed Services, committing the government to integrating the segregated military. -
State-sanctioned segregation of public schools was a violation of the 14th amendment and was therefore unconstitutional. -
It was a social protest against racial segregations. So this is when the person ''Rosa Parks'' refused to give her seat up to a white man. This insprired the black community to stand up for what they belive and start a protest that will soon lead to the action of blacks and whites to be equal. -
passed by the 85th United States Congress and signed into law by President Dwight D. Eisenhowe. -
There were nine african Americans were enrolled into all white school to see how things would play out. Before entering the students were prevented from entering by a furios croud of white people. -
young African American students staged a sit-in at a segregated Woolworth's lunch counter. They refused to leave after being denied service. The sit-in movement soon spread to college towns throughout the South. -
Riots were happening on the University of Mississippi in Oxford where locals, students, and committed segregationists got together to protest the enrollment of James Meredith, a black Air Force veteran attempting to integrate the all-white school. -
A march by over 1,000 school students in Birmingham, Alabama on May 2–3, 1963. Initiated and organized by Rev. James Bevel, the reason is because they was going to walk downtown to talk to the mayor about segregation in their city. -
It's about Martin Luther King Jr. giving a speech about his dream to have every valley shall exalted. And he basically says that he wants the world to be eaqaul and fair, and he wants everything to be basically a zootopia. -
The Stand in the Schoolhouse Door took place at Foster Auditorium at the University of Alabama . -
A white supremacist terrorist bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. -
a volunteer campaign in the United States launched in June 1964 to attempt to register as many African-American voters as possible in Mississippi. -
three protest marches, it was on mile 54. And they were heading to the state capital of Montgomery.