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Brooklyn Dodgers signed Jackie Robinson to play for them. He was the first African American since 1889 to play major league baseball.
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In 1948, President Harry Truman ordered an end to segregation in the military, because was embarrassed by criticism from around the world.
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The Supreme Court ruled against segregation in schools. That was the case of Brown v. the Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas. “Brown” was the family of Linda Brown, pictured in her segregated classroom.
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Rosa Parks was a devoted member of the NAACP chapter in Montgomery, Alabama. She challenged the public library’s segregation rule.
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The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Montgomery buses had to desegregate. The African Americans of Montgomery went back to riding the buses.
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Martin Luther King and others formed the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) to fight segregation.
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Nine African American teenagers tried to enter all-white Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas.
