The Civil Rights Movement

By mazakh13

  • Victory in Baseball

    Victory in Baseball
    Brooklyn Dodgers signed Jackie Robinson to play for them. He was the first African American since 1889 to play major league baseball.

  • U.S. conflict

    U.S. conflict
    In 1948, President Harry Truman ordered an end to segregation in the military, because was embarrassed by criticism from around the world.

  • Segregation

    Segregation
    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.

  • Rosa Parks

    Rosa Parks
    Rosa Parks was a devoted member of the NAACP chapter in Montgomery, Alabama. She challenged the public library’s segregation rule.

  • Desegregation

    The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Montgomery buses had to desegregate. The African Americans of Montgomery went back to riding the buses.

  • MLK

    MLK
    Martin Luther King and others formed the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) to fight segregation.

  • School Conflict

    School Conflict
    Nine African American teenagers tried to enter all-white Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas.