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Jackie Robinson
Jackie Robinson became the first black man to play in MLB. He played for the Brooklyn Dodgers and won rookie of the year the same year he joined which was in 1947. Just two years later he became the National League MVP and in 1955 helped win the World Series champ. He was known as one of the most talented and exciting players. He became the highest paid athlete on the Dodgers team before he retired. -
Sweatt v. Painter
What happened?
A black man named Herman Marmion Painter tried getting into a law school in Texas when his application was automatically rejected because he was African American. His application was denied because it was a state law that restricted him access to getting into the University of Texas Law School. When he decided to take this to court, it was a unanimous decision that he should be allowed to go there due to the fourteenth amendment. -
Brown v. Board of Education
Linda Brown and her sister had to take a longer way to school to get to the all black school even though there was a school much closer-that was only for white students. Not to mention the only way they could take was dangerous and put their life at risk everyday. The Brown family believed that this violated the fourteenth amendment, so they took it to court. -
Rosa Parks
In Montgomery, Alabama on 1955 Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat in the front of the bus to a white man. On this day she go arrested, on the same day Parks got convicted the leader of a local black community started a bus boycott which lasted a whole year with the help of young MLK Jr. -
Little Rock Nine
The little rock nine was a group of nine African american students who went to Little Rock central High school. This school was an all white school.When they first got to school as expected they were greeted with people in their faces telling them they don't belong. Minnijean Brown couldn't take the punishment and name calling so she left the high school. The other student were Gloria Ray, Terrance Roberts, Ernest Green, Thelma Mothershed, Jefferson Thomas, Melba Patillo, and Carlotta Walls. -
Woolworth's Sit-In
This sit-in was placed at a fast food joint in North Carolina where students protested. The students decided to do this since it was a segregated restaurant and were denied service for being African American. Many were arrested, but eventually this protest spreaded to the South and ultimately forced Woolworth’s and other places change their policies. This protest started with a few students and essentially spread which required many areas to modify the segregation system. -
Freedom Ride
Civil Rights activists were determined to challenge the Supreme court about segregation on transportation.The first week wasn’t as bad as the second week where they were beaten. Whites attacked them, one of the buses was burned down,but they persevered. They continued down all the way to Mississippi where they dealt with jail terms and more brutality, but eventually they influenced others and by the end of the summer this protest had spread to other sorts of transportations such as airports. -
Bloody Sunday
About 600 people were crossing the Edmund Pettus bridge on March 7, 1965. Then while they were making their way across the bridge state troopers starting attacking the peaceful marchers in order to put an end to the march for voting rights. The , march led by John Lewis in the town of Selma, Alabama, when refusing to urn back when told tear gas was thrown at the protesters and also to mention that the protesters were beaten. -
MLK JR
MLK was a man who wanted equality, nothing showed that more than his i have a dream speech. This speech was a speech that he produced in hopes to bring peace and equality to all Americans. Later in 1965 his name was even more know from the events that occured in the town of Selma in Alabama were peaceful protesters where attacked by cops and white segregationist. The events of Selma made king more hated by some and on April 4, 1968 king was assassinated while on a balcony in a Memphis hotel. -
Black Panther
People were tired of the police brutality against African Americans so two men named Huey Newton and Bobby Seale founded this organization in 1966. This organization was made to challenge brutality by police to african americans. One of the main causes of the black panther being founded is the assassination of Malcolm X and after a teen named Matthew Johnson was shot and killed by police in san francisco.
