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The first African-American player to make it to Major League Baseball when he steps onto Ebbets Field in Brooklyn to compete for the Brooklyn Dodgers. -
this order established the President’s Committee on Equality of Treatment and Opportunity in the Armed Services, DEmolishing segration in the military. -
14-year-old Emmett Till, an African-American from Chicago gets brutally murdered for allegedly flirting with a white woman -
The Montgomery bus boycott was abut rasel predus in public transit in Montgomery, Alabama. -
The Little Rock Nine was a group of nine African-American that atend Little Rock Central High School a white school and the govirmit had to send the Nasnol Gard to excort them. -
Ac young African-American students staged a sit in restont at a segregated Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro Carolina and refused to leave after being denied service. -
Campus of the University of Mississippi in Oxford where locals, students, and committed segregationists had gathered to protest the enrollment of James Meredith a black veteran attempting to integrate the all white school.
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March by over 1,000 school students in Birmingham Alabama, the purpose of the march was to walk downtown to talk to the mayor about segregation in the city. -
a white supremacist terrorist bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. -
The attempt to register as many African-American voters as possible in Mississippi -
A marche along the 54-mile highway from Selma Alabama to the state capital of Montgomery. -
It stoped the discriminatory voting practices that started in many southern states after the Civil War, which includs literacy tests which was a prerequisite to voting. -
Was a Marxist-Leninist Black Power political organization founded by college students Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton in California. -
was a landmark civil rights decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in which the court ruled that laws banning interracial marriage, violate the Equal Protection and Due Process Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. -
Martin Luther King Jr. was an activist who became the most visible spokesman and leader in the civil rights movement until his assassination in 1968. his assination shocked the world as the most valuble cilvil rights speaker was now dead.
