Civil Rights Timeline

  • Jackie Robinson

    Jackie Robinson

    He was the first African American to play Major League Baseball when he debuted for the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947. He is in the National Baseball Hall Of Fame.
  • Executive Order 9981 signed by President Truman

    was discrimination of race, color, religion or national origin in the United States Armed Forces, and led to the re-integration of the services during the Korean War.
  • Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court Ruling

    Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court Ruling

    The supreme court made the 14 th amendment which is to protect the equal rights of every race. School could segregated students anymore because it was against the law and they would get in trouble.
  • Montgomery Bus Boycott

    Montgomery Bus Boycott

    It is the movement where African Americans didn't ride bus for a long period of time to protest the segregation of seating. They went along with this protest until they agreed to make it all equal
  • Emmett Till is murdered

    Emmett Till is murdered

    He was a African American man who got killed by this women's husband and his friends because he whistled at a white women. They had kidnapped this dude and burtally murder him and it caused a civil rights movement.
  • Litltle Rock Nine Intervention

    Litltle Rock Nine Intervention

    The nine African American student that weren't allowed to go into school because of their race. This had caused shouting and throwing objects until the national guard made them go home.
  • Greensboro Sit-In Protest

    Greensboro Sit-In Protest

    Was the protest when African Americans sat at a sit in and didn't move after they got served. This protest ended up spreading to other towns and colleges.
  • Integration of Ole Miss Riots

    Integration of Ole Miss Riots

    Was when students and locals protested segregation at a campus. It ended up becoming a riot and a lot of people got injured and 2 people died.
  • 16th street baptist church bombing

    16th street baptist church bombing

    The KKK surrounded the place with bombs because they held civil rights activist meeting and they wanted to ruin those meeting and the church services.The bomb went of early Sunday morning right before Sunday service.
  • George Wallace’s “Stand in the Schoolhouse Door”

    George Wallace’s “Stand in the Schoolhouse Door”

    It happened in Alabama when the Governor stood outside of an auditorium not letting African American people in. Wallace stood outside of the door screaming "segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever."
  • I Have a Dream Speech

    I Have a Dream Speech

    A call for freedom and equality for African American people and it was one of the most famous speeches in America.
  • Freedom Summer

    Freedom Summer

    Was when they had a campaign to list all the African American voters as they can. This took place in Mississippi to increase the number of African American voters for activist movements.
  • The Selma Marches

    The Selma Marches

    It was the three marches that took place to protest the blocking of the black which was the African Americans right to vote and they wasn't able to. The African Americans wanted their fair right to vote.
  • Black Panther Party is formed

    Black Panther Party is formed

    Was a group of African American people learning self defense because of the way they was treated and they didn't feel safe. A lot of the African American people that's was intrested in this group was ones who didn't have job plans for the future
  • Dr Martin Luther King is assassinated

    Dr Martin Luther King is assassinated

    He was on his balcony at his motel on the second floor and James Earl Ray shot and killed him.