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Willie Lee Thrower
Willie Lee Thrower: First African America to appear at the quarterback position in the National Football League (NFL), playing for the Chicago Bears -
brown v. Board of education decided
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kans: after the brown v s education case the brown rule was just applied mainly to Southern school systems. However was later spread out because of other main events and people of different color where able to go to the same school together and get the same education -
emmett till
Emmett Till: was only 14 when killed by two white Mississippians Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam for reportedly flirting with a white woman. The boy death was brutal, and his killers not being guilty of this crime shocked the world. His lynching took action in the Civil Rights Movement as activists dedicated themselves to ending the conditions that had led to Till's death. -
Parks, Rosa, Louise
Parks, Rosa, Louise: Arrest for refusing to give up her seat on a municipal bus to a white man sparked the Montgomery bus boycott -
James Arthur Baldwin (not given month or day)
James Arthur Baldwin: An American novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic. Such dynamics was widely known in his second novel was widely espoused in America: Giovanni's Room. Baldwin's first novel, Go Tell It on the Mountain, is said to be his best-known work. -
Little Rock Nine
Little Rock Nine: Were a group of nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School Their enrollment was followed by the Little Rock Crisis, in which the students were initially prevented from entering the racially segregated school by Orval Faubus, the Governor of Arkansas. They then attended after the intervention of President Dwight D. Eisenhower. -
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freedom riders
Over the spring and summer, Students volunteers that test out the new laws that segregation in interstate facilities by taking bus trips, and railways stations through the south. Freedom riders of what they were called were attacked by angry mobs along the way. The Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) which involves more than 1,000, black and white. Sponsored, the program. -
Jack Roosevelt "Jackie" Robinson
Jack Roosevelt "Jackie" Robinson: Was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. He Was an American Major League Baseball (MLB) second baseman who became the first African American to play in the major leagues in the modern era. -
james Meredith
James Meredith: He was one of the pioneers of the civil rights movement. He became the first black student to successfully enroll at the University of Mississippi. Ross Barnett, vociferously the state's governor opposed his enrollment. A violence and rioting started surrounding the incident that caused President Kennedy to send 5,000 federal troops to restore the peace. -
murder of three civil rights workers
Near Philadelphia, in Nashoba County, Mississippi three young civil rights workers a 21-year-old black Mississippian, James Chaney, and two white New Yorkers, Andrew Goodman, 20, and Michael Schwerner, 24 were murdered. They were working to register black voters during the freedom summer in Mississippi and had went over to a burning black church to investigate. They were arrested by the police on trumped-up chargers, for several hours they were imprisoned, and were released after dark within the -
four black freshmen
At North Carolina A&T State University, Franklin McCain, Joseph McNeil, Ezell Blair, Jr., and David Richmond, took seats at the segregated lunch counter of F. W. Woolworth's in Greensboro, N.C. They were refused service and sat peacefully until the store closed. When they returned the next day they brought along about 25 other students however their requests were still again denied. The Greensboro Four inspired similar sit-ins across the state and by the end of February, such protests were takin