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Jackie Robinson was the first African American to crack a racial barrier in big league baseball when Brooklyn Dodgers signed him in 1947.
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Emmett Till was fourteen years old, a Mississippi mob killed him for allegedly leering at a white woman.
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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.
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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.
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Martin Luther King Jr. led the March On Washington with 200,000 black and white demonstrators to support the proposed New Civil Rights Legislation.
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Four girls were killed in Street Baptist Church in Birmingham Alabama due to a bombing over an incident between protesters and police
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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.
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Gave federal government more right to enforce desegreagation orders, prohibited racial discrimination based on race,color, religion sex or origin.
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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
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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.
