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**BONUS**Jackie Robinson joins Brooklyn Dodgers
UCLA alum Jackie Robinson breaks the color barrier by being the first colored man to play professional baseball in modern times -
1954 brown vs. board of education
Supreme Court reverses please by stating that schools aren't equal and that all schools must desegregate with deliberate speed -
Montgomery bus boycott
Rosa parks ignites a massive 381 day boycott of the bus services. They lost a major amount of money as the colored people made up nearly 75 percent of the people that used the bus. And they wouldn't ride until they are unsegregated. This finally happened and they resumed riding the bus. -
Desegregation at little rock (little rock nine)
After little rock decides to integrate schools the national gaurd is called in the block black children from going to school. 1000 federal peacekeepers are needed to escort the black children and preserve peace -
Sit in campaign
4 black students sit at a all whites diner counter they are refused service and asked to leave. They stayed there until closing. They cam the next day and brought 2 dozen more people. They moved from store to store as there numbers grew and finally the stores were unsegregated -
Freedom riders
A group of people left do to head to New Orleans. But they were stopped by a mob and violence. They went 600 Feds to help stop the violence this continued until interstate transit terminals were integrated -
Mississippi riot
5000 federal troops are s not by president Kennedy to allow a black student to attend a college I Mississippi riots broke out leaving 2 dead and many injured -
Birmingham march on Washington
200,000 Americans gathered in DC for a political rally,known as the march on Washington for jobs and freedom. This is where Martin Luther King juniors famous speech was first spoken -
Civil rights act signed.
Johnson signed the civil rights act. He did it with 75 different pens and gave them away as momentoes. This act got rid of racial job discrimination and public segregation -
Selma
King leads 54 mile March to support black voter registration. Despite attacts from police and interference from governor Wallace they made it to Montgomery -
**BONUS** Malcolm X assassinated
Rejecting intergration and non violence splits from the black Muslims and is later assassinated -
Civil rights movement at a whole.
Segregation had been a problem for colored people since the end of the civil war. Thy couldn't eat,stay or even go to the same bathroom as white people. Some people stood out from others and did courageous things. Today,segregation is mostly gone in the U.S -
**BONUS**Americans with disabilities act
Bans discrimination in hiring anyone with a dissability is not able to not be accepted to a job just because of a certain dissability the person may have -
**BONUS**Please versus Ferguson.
Supreme Court rules that separate but equal facilities that are for different races is legal -
**BONUS** Birmingham church bombing.
Four girls are killed in. A church when and explosion from a bomb goes off in a church -
SOURCES. BIBLIOGRAPHY
Faculty.polytechnic.org/gfeldmeth/charts.civalrightshtml
**Www.history.co/topics/black-history/Montgomery-bus-boycott
**Content.time.com/time/photogallery/0.29307,1957689-2030685.00.html
**Www.history.com/topics/black-history/freedom-riders
**Www.history.com/topics/black-history/March-on-Washington
**Www.history.com/this-day-in-history/Johnson-signs-civil-rights-act
**harps://askjan.org/links/adasummery.htm
**BONUS-Faculty.polytechnic.org/gfeldmeth/charts.civalrightshtml
