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NAACP was founded
The National Association for the Advancement of Black People / The National Association for the Promotion of Colored Colors is one of the oldest civil rights organizations in the United States, headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland. This is a rare example where the vocabulary of colored people remains as an organization name. -
Jackie Robinson joined the Brooklyn Dodgers
Dodgers general manager Branch Rickey announced he had purchased the contract of Jackie Robinson, setting the stage for Robinson to break Major League Baseball’s color barrier. Jackie Robinson, the 28-year-old infielder, today became the first Negro to achieve major-league baseball status in modern times. -
Brown v. Board of Education
Brown v. Board of Education trial is a trial conducted by the United States Supreme Court in 1954 on racial segregation policy in the United States. It is also called Brown's decision. The ruling given on May 17, 1954, was unanimously decided in the court of Chief Justice Earl Warren. -
Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man
By refusing to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery, Alabama, city bus in 1955. Black seamstress Rosa Parks (1913—2005) helped initiate the civil rights movement in the United States. -
Desegregation of Central High in Little Rock, Arkansas
The Little Rock High School case is the racist turmoil that took place in Little Rock, Arkansas, the USA in 1957. It is one of the major events in the American civil rights movement. -
Congress passed the Civil Rights Act of 1957
President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed into law the Civil Rights Act of 1957. Originally proposed by Attorney General Herbert Brownell. the Act marked the first occasion since Reconstruction that the federal government undertook significant legislative action to protect civil rights. -
Sit-in at Woolworth’s lunch counter
Four African American college students sat down at a lunch counter at Woolworth’s in Greensboro, North Carolina, and politely asked for service. Their passive resistance and peaceful sit-down demand helped ignite a youth-led movement to challenge racial inequality throughout the South. -
CORE “freedom ride”
The first Freedom Ride took place when seven blacks and six whites left Washington, D.C., on two public buses bound for the Deep South. They intended to test the Supreme Court's ruling in Boynton v. Virginia. -
Dr. King was thrown into Birmingham Jail
In 1963 Martin Luther King Jr. was arrested and sent to jail because he and others were protesting the treatment of blacks in Birmingham, Alabama. Birmingham in 1963 was a hard place for blacks to live in. -
March on Washington
The Washington March marched on August 28, 1963 and called for the elimination of racial discrimination in Washington, DC, USA. The civil rights activist and pastor Martin Luther King Jr. has joined more than 200,000 people in a march called for the elimination of racism. -
Congress passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964
This act, signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson on July 2, 1964, prohibited discrimination in public places, provided for the integration of schools and other public facilities, and made employment discrimination illegal. This document was the most sweeping civil rights legislation since Reconstruction. -
Voting Rights Act
The 1965 Voting Rights Act was enacted in the United States Congress and forbade racism at the time of voting, and was a law that defined a period of time. On August 6, 1965, during the height of the civil rights movement, United States President Lyndon B. Johnson signed and became legal. -
Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated
Martin Luther King Jr. is a Protestant Baptist pastor of the United States. Known as Rev. King, he served as a leader of the African-American civil rights movement. -
“Bloody Sunday”
The bloody Sunday case was a case in which 27 civilians marching on March 30, 1972 in Londonderry in Northern Ireland were shot by the British Army Parachutist Regiment. 14 people were killed, 13 injured, and the name of the area where the case occurred was also called "Bogside Massacre."
