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Jackie Robinson enters Major League Baseball
On April 15, 1947, Jackie Robinson became the first African American to play Major League Baseball in the modern era. He was the first back baseball player in the MLB. He was 28th when he started. Jackie Robinson also pitched in the minor leagues for 12 years, but didn't pitch in the Major League Baseball. -
Executive Order 9981 signed by President Truman
On July 26, 1948, Harry Truman signed an executive order. It created the President's committee on Equality of treatment and opportunity in the armed services. The purpose of the Executive Order 9981 was to eliminate racial discrimination in the military by abolishing segregation in all branches. It impacted an order that marked a significant step towards civil rights in the US. -
Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court Ruling
In this milestone decision, the Supreme Court ruled that separating children in public schools on the basis of race was unconstitutional. The Supreme Court issued a 9–0 decision in favor of the Browns. -
Emmett Till is murdered
On August 28, 1955, while Emmett Till was visiting family in Money, Mississippi. She was an African American from Chicago, was brutally murdered for allegedly flirting with a white woman four days earlier. -
Rosa Parks Arrest
Rosa Parks was arrested in Montgomery, Alabama for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white man. E.D. Nixon, who was a Civil Rights leader, bailed her out of jail, joined by other friends Clifford Durr, an attorney, and his wife, Virginia. The punishment for Rosa Parks was that the bus stopped, and Parks was arrested by local police. On December 5th, she was found guilty of violating segregation laws, which was given a suspended sentence and fined $10, plus $4 in court costs. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
The Montgomery Bus Boycott was sparked by the arrest of Rose Parks on December 1, 1955, the Montgomery Bus Boycott was a 13-month mass protest that ended with the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that segregation on public buses is unconstitutional. -
Civil Rights Act of 1957 is passed
On September 9, 1957, Dwight D. Eisenhower signed into law the Civil Rights Act of 1957. It was originally made by an attorney general called Herbert Brownell, the act marked the first occasion since reconstruction that the federal government undertook significant legislative action to protect civil rights. -
Little Rock Nine Intervention
On September 25, 1957, nine teenagers walked out of their homes and stepped up to the front lines in the battle for civil rights for all Americans. People called it the little rock nine to identify the first African American students to desegregate Little Rock Central High School. -
Greensboro Sit-In Protest
It was an act of nonviolent protest against a segregated lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina. It began on February 1, 1960. Which led to the F. W. Woolworth Company department store chain removing its policy of racial segregation. -
Integration of Ole Miss Riots
On September 30, 1962, riots erupted on the campus of the University of Mississippi in Oxford where locals, students, and committed segregationists had gathered to protest. More than 2,000 white people rioted but two people were killed. -
The Birmingham Children’s March
On May 2, 1963, more than one thousand students skipped classes and gathered at 16th Street Baptist Church to march to downtown Birmingham, Alabama. hundreds were arrested and carried off to jail in paddy wagons and school buses. The event moved to President John F. Kennedy to express support for federal civil rights legislation and the eventual passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. -
George Wallace’s “Stand in the Schoolhouse Door”
On June 11 of 1963, Alabama governor who is George Wallace planted himself in a doorway of the University of Alabama to prevent it from being integrated. -
March on Washington / I Have a Dream Speech
For the March of Washington, it was to demand an end to segregation, fair wages and economic justice, voting rights, education, and long overdue civil rights protections. It was Martin Luther King's speech. -
Freedom Summer
During the summer of 1964, hundreds of college students flooded Mississippi. The students came from different backgrounds, colleges, and Civil Rights organizations. the first three hundred volunteers arrived in Mississippi. Mississippi Project Director Robert Moses had pledged his staff and volunteers. -
The Selma Marches / Bloody Sunday
“Bloody Sunday,” which occurred on March 7, 1965, was a moment in the American Civil Rights Movement. During a march in Selma, Alabama, demonstrators were badly attacked by state troopers, drawing national attention to the struggle for equal voting rights for African Americans.