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Jackie Robinson joins the Dodgers
Jackie Robinson was the first African American to crack a racial barrier in big league baseball when Brooklyn Dodgers signed him in 1947. -
Murder Emmett Till
Emmett Till was fourteen years old, a Mississippi mob killed him for allegedly leering at a white woman. -
Freedom Riders
A group of 13 African Americans and whites were Civil Rights activist who took a series of bus trips to protest against segregation on a bus in the South. -
Medgar Evers Murdered
He was a volunteer in the U.S. Army in World War II . In 1952 he joined the NAACP and encouraged poor African Americans into recruiting into the civil rights movement. He was shot on his driveway by a white supremacist Bryon De La Beckwith. -
March on Washington
Martin Luther King Jr. led the March On Washington with 200,000 black and white demonstrators to support the proposed New Civil Rights Legislation. -
16th street bombing
Four girls were killed in Street Baptist Church in Birmingham Alabama due to a bombing over an incident between protesters and police -
Murder in Mississippi
There were 3 civil rights leaders two of them were white. They helped teach blacks on how to register to vote. They were killed due to a conspiracy by the police and the KKK. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Gave federal government more right to enforce desegreagation orders, prohibited racial discrimination based on race,color, religion sex or origin. -
Martin Luther King Jr. Assassination
He led the March on Washington, was a leader of the civil rights movement. He was shot outside his balcony in Memphis, Tennesse by James Earl Ray -
Letter from Birmingham Jail
It was an open letter by Martin Luther King Jr. in which he defends the strategy of nonviolent resistance to racism arguing that people have moral responsibility to break unjust laws.
