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In 1946 Jackie Robinson was playing for the Montreal Royals, which is the Dodger's top farm team. Then on April 15th, 1947 Jackie Robinson made his National Day View as the MLB first African American player. It was an incredibly anticipated day by all Americas. Some people thought it was awesome, other people did not. All though Jackie Robinson had an amazing 8-year career even winning the 1955 World Series to close out his career.
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Jackie Robinson was huge in helping out black lives during the civil rights movement. He helped break the color line in MLB. This caused a chain reaction and not too long after more black men were joining baseball and then after that, they were joining other sports as well.
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Brown v. Board of Education in Topeka was a landmark Supreme Court case in which the board of education decided that racial segregation of children in public schools was unconstitutional. This became a very important moment as it was a staple point in the civil rights movement. This allowed less segregation in the school systems.
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Emmitt Till was a 14-year-old African American from Chicago who went to Money, Mississippi to visit his family, He was brutally murdered for supposedly flirting with a white woman a few days earlier. Was brutally killed by the woman's husband and brother in the most inhumane way. The murders did not face charges by the all-white jury. This shows white supremacy and this started to change people's opinion on the way things happen
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On September 3, 1957, in front of Central High in Little Rock Arkansas, a white mob stood in front of the school. They didn’t want the black students to enter the school. Then-president Eieshenhower realized the problem he deployed the Arkansas National Guard to stop the black students from entering the school. Even Martin Luther King Jr. wrote a letter to the president trying to get the African American students to be able to go to school at the school. However, it did not work.
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A sit-in is a direct action in which a group of people secretly show up to a large space and do not move until their demands are met. A sit-ins was the Greensboro sit-ins in which people participated in it for 5 months. There was severe consequences that came along with doing these sit-ins. African Americans would be brutalized and hospitalized. However they would still go doing what they could to help. Most of these sit-ins proved succsessful towards their goal which was to prove their point.
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Freedom Rides were civil rights activists that liked to ride buses down the interstate to the southern states that were against blacks. The freedom riders were black and white just not black. They started to get into trouble with the law though. The freedom riders challenged non-enforcement of the Supreme Court's Morgan v. Virginia.
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James Meredith was an Air force veteran who previously was studying at Jackson state college which was an all-black school. When James arrived at the University of Missippi campus being protected by federal forces, 2,000 students and others were blocking the entrance 2 people died, and multiple injured. Despite the resistance, James was the first African American student in the university. this shows how racist the south was and how tight the Jim crow laws where
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This was an attack on the baptist church by a white supremist group. This attack happened in Birmingham Alabama 1963. The attack killed four girls, three were 14 and one was 11. This became a very tragic moment in history that will always be remembered. Although they knew 4 of the Klansman that had participated in the bombings, they were not conducted until the year of 1977.
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In 1963 the world turned its attention to Birmingham, Alabama as peaceful civil rights demonstrators faced police dogs and fire hoses in a battle for freedom and equality. Later that year four girls died in the bombing of Sixteenth Street Baptist Church. "It was the year of Birmingham," Martin Luther King, Jr. said at the time.
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John Lewis was a speaker at the march of Washington. In fact, he was one of the youngest influencers at the March of Washington. He stated that every man of color deserved equal rights, a job with equal wages just not starvation wages. He didn't agree with how his people were being treated and he did a great job helping with the civil rights movement.
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In June 1963 President Lyndon Johnson pushed the year. Congress passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The Act prohibited discrimination in public accommodations and federally funded programs. It also strengthened the enforcement of voting rights and the opportunity to be in office. This graph shows that after the act was passed that more African-Americans could vote after was passed.
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Rodney King is beaten by three officers. The brutality is captured on videotape and three officers are tried for their actions. This reminds us of the Emmitt Till murder in the officers did not be found guilty. and police brutality is still happening today
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Christine Franklin, a sophomore female, decided to press charges on one of her teachers Mr. Andrew Hill, for sexual harassment. She reported him constantly pulling her out of class to have intercourse with him and. After she pressed charges other female students had said how they were also being treated this way by Hill. She even reported it to the school and they did nothing about it. This shows that the civil rights wasn't just for African Americans, but for all people women, man, and child.
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This sit-in began on June 22, 2016 as the members of the House of Democrats refused to leave until they decided to vote on gun control legislation after the events of the Orlando Nightclub Shooting. This whole event started with John Lewis who just so happened to be at the Selma marches and was beaten.
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Three bombs went off in Austin, Texas killing two African Americans in their home. This is to be believed as aimed for mainly black families. The two people killed knew each other very well even going to the same church. Even the police believe that they are connected with the third attempt at a 75 year old African American.
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When George Floyd died on May 25th, 2020 riots broke out in Minneapolis. These rioters destroyed public buildings, stormed the streets, scared innocent people, and burned the American flag. This is related to freedom rides. The freedom riders meant violence and the police didn't do anything to stop them. But the police tried to stop the rioters after one of them killed George Floyd. The police were brutal with the BLM rioters using such things as tear gas, and extreme force to stop them.
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John Lewis was an extraordinary man when it came to performing civil rights movements. he participated in just about everything he could from doing sit-ins in Nashville, to joining the Selma-to-Montgomery march. He has been beaten and betrayed and still pursued his life's goal to stop segregation and that is exactly what he did. He became a congressman and leader as well as an idol to many African American families. He did pass away last year and he is and forever will be remembered as a hero.
