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Jackie Robinson enters Major League Baseball
Jackie Robinson became the first African American to play Major League Baseball which gave other African-American -
Executive Order 9981 signed by President Truman
Harry Truman signed an Executive Order creating the President's Committee on Equality of Treatment and Opportunity in the Armed Services -
Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court Ruling
separating children in public schools on the basis of race was unconstitutional -
Emmett Till is murdered
Fourteen year old Emmett Till was a African American from Chicago that was brutally murdered for allegedly flirting with a white woman four days -
Rosa Parks Arrest
Rosa Parks was taken into custody in Montgomery Alabama for disorderly conduct after she declined to surrender her bus seat to a white man. Civil Rights activist E. D. Nixon posted her bail, along with the assistance of their white allies, attorney Clifford Durr and his spouse, Virginia. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott date
The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a 13-month-long demonstration that occurred from December 1955 to December 1956. It was initiated as a reaction to the racial segregation present on public buses in Montgomery, Alabama. The boycott was spearheaded by Martin Luther King, Jr. and Rosa Parks, marking a significant turning point in the civil rights movement. -
Little Rock Nine Intervention
the first day of classes at Central High the Governor Orval Faubus called in the Arkansas National Guard to block the Black students entry into the high school -
Civil Rights Act of 1957 is passed
President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed into law the Civil Rights Act of 1957 that was Originally proposed by Attorney General Herbert Brownell -
Greensboro Sit-In Protest
act of nonviolent protest against a segregated lunch counter in Greensboro and North Carolin -
Integration of Ole Miss Riots
riots erupted on the campus of the University of Mississippi in Oxford -
The Birmingham Children’s March
Birmingham Children's Crusade, nonviolent protest against segregation held by Black children on May 2–10, 1963, in Birmingham, Alabama. The protest is credited with causing a major shift in attitudes against segregation among Americans and with convincing Pres. -
Freedom summer
Freedom Summer, or the Mississippi Summer Project, was a 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 the polls -
George Wallace’s “Stand in the Schoolhouse Door”
The Stand in the Schoolhouse Door took place at Foster Auditorium at the University of Alabama -
March on Washington / I Have a Dream Speech
a public speech that was delivered by American civil rights activist and Baptist minister Martin Luther King Jr. -
The Selma Marches / Bloody Sunday
The Selma to Montgomery marches were three protest marches, held in 1965, along the 54-mile highway from Selma, Alabama, to the state capital of Montgomery.