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This is the first black person to play in major league baseball.
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This was when an innocent child was brutally murdered because he looked at a white man's wife in a store. The man was not charged with anything and got off for it all.
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A passive boycott against bus segregation in Montgomery, Alabama.
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This was when nine African Americans enrolled into a segregated school after the law was changed. The governor preceded to not allow this and break the law.
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This was when African American students staged a sit-in at a diner. After being denied service they still stayed and sat down.
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This is when students at Harvard protested against a black air force veteran joining the all white school.
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A movement to bring attention to the integration efforts of African Americans in Birmingham, Alabama.
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An attempt to register as many African American voters as possible in Mississippi.
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This was when some of six-hundred civil rights marchers marched from Selma until interrupted by lawmen with billy clubs and tear gas.
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A civil rights club that taught self defense to African Americans against abusive white people.