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NAACP was founded
America's oldest and largest civil rights organization, founded in 1909 to fight against racial discrimination and advocate for the rights of African Americans. -
Jackie Robinson joined the Brooklyn Dodgers
he was the first pro black baseball player -
Brown v. Board of Education
State-sanctioned segregation of public schools was a violation of the 14th amendment and was therefore unconstitutional. -
RRosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man-
On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Her courageous act of protest was considered the spark that ignited the Civil Rights movement. -
Congress passed the Civil Rights Act of 1957
aimed to protect voting rights and established the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights and a Civil Rights Division in the Justice Department, empowering federal prosecutors to seek injunctions against voter intimidation. -
Desegregation of Central High in Little Rock, Arkansas
a few black kids went to central for the first time in school history it was a very hard time for these kids tho -
CORE “freedom ride”
a series of interstate bus trips organized by the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) in 1961 to challenge segregation in interstate bus terminals and buses, with the goal of integrating public transportation in the South. -
Sit-in at Woolworth’s lunch counter
The Greensboro sit-in was a civil rights protest that started in 1960, when young African American students staged a sit-in at a segregated Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro -
March on Washington
a pivotal event in the Civil Rights Movement, held on August 28, 1963, where over 250,000 people gathered in Washington, D.C., to advocate for civil and economic rights for African Americans -
Dr. King was thrown into Birmingham Jail
arrested and jailed in Birmingham, Alabama, for leading a nonviolent protest against segregation, which led to him writing his famous "Letter from Birmingham Jail -
Congress passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964
Congress passed the Civil Rights Act, a landmark piece of legislation that outlawed segregation in public accommodations and banned discrimination in employment, education, and federally assisted programs, a key step in the fight for civil rights. -
“Bloody Sunday”
the violent attack on civil rights marchers in Selma, Alabama, on March 7, 1965, as they attempted to cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge -
Voting Rights Act
prohibited states from imposing qualifications or practices to deny the right to vote on account of race -
Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated
he was shot and killed at a Memphis hotel
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