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Jackie Robinson enters major league baseball
Jackie Robinson was a professional baseball player and in fact the first African American Baseball player. He played first base for the Brooklyn dodgers. -
Emmett Till is killed
Emmett Till was a 14 year old African American who was killed after being accused of offending a white women in a grocery store. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system. It was a seminal event in the civil rights movement. -
Greensboro Sit-in
a civil rights protest that started in 1960 when a young African American students staged a sit in at a segregated Woolworths lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina and refused to leave after being denied service. the sit in movement soon spread to college towns. -
The Birmingham Childrens March
The Birmingham campaign was a movement organized in early 1963 by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference to bring attention to the integration to African Americans in Birmingham Alabama -
Freedom Summer
In 1964 voter registration drive aimed at increasing the number of registered black voters in Mississippi. Over 700 mostly white volunteers joined African Americans in Mississippi to fight against voter intimidation and discrimination at polls -
The Selma Marches
southern state legislatures had passed and maintained a series of discriminatory requirements and practices that had disenfranchised most of the millions of African American across the south throughout the 20th century -
Voting Rights Act of 1965 is passed
The Voting Act of 1965 is a landmark piece of federal legislation in the United States that prohibits racial discrimination in voting -
Black Panther Party is formed
The Black Panther party, originally the black panther party for self defense was a revolutionary political organization founded by bobby seal and Huey newton un October 1966 in Oakland California. -
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated
Martin Luther King jr. was an American christian minister and activist who become the most visible spokesperson and the leader in the Civil Rights Movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968