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Jackie Robinson breaks the color barrier for baseball and becomes the first African American player to play on the field in the American/National league, opening the door for many to come in following him. He was also pretty good so there's that too. -
An executive order signed by President Harry S. Truman establishing the President;s Committee on Equality Treatment and Opportunity in the Armed Services, which was to integrate the segregated military. -
Supreme Court Justice Earl Warren delivered the unanimous that segregated schools violated the 14th amendment, therefore was unconstitutional. -
A 14 year old boy that was brutally murdered because he allegedly flirted with a white woman, which lead to her husband and brother beating the boy to near death then gouging his eye out and shooting him, then throwing him into a river while tied to a cotton gin. -
A mass protest against the bus system in Montgomery, Alabama by civil rights activists and those who support it. This would eventually lead to the Supreme Court declaring these laws unconstitutional. -
A civil rights protest started in the 1960s when young African Americans students staged a sit-in at a segregated lunch counter and refused to leave after being denied service. It spread throughout college towns in the south. While most were arrested for trespassing, disturbing the peace, or disorderly conduct. This made a big impact as segregation policies were soon dropped. -
Riots by locals, students, and committed segregationist who had gathered to "protest" the enrollment of a black Air Force veteran, James Meredith in an attempt to integrate the all-white school. -
A protest march by over 1,000 students in Birmingham, Alabama which the purpose of which was to walk down to the Mayor's Office and talk to him about the segregation of the city. This march was stopped by the head of police at the time via fire hoses and siccing dogs on the children but jokes on him here, as this compelled President John F. Kennedy to support the Federal Civil Rights Legislation and lead to the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. -
A massive protest march involving 250,000 people who grouped in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC. This event aimed to draw attention to the acts of injustice, challenges, and inequalities that African Americans had to face over the years. This i s also where Martin Luther King's iconic "I Have a Dream" speech was delivered. -
A white supremacist bombing of the 16th street Baptist Church in support for both racism and racial segregation. This had in around 14-22 casualties and 4 deaths, all of which were little girls. -
AKA, The Mississippi Summer Project, was a voter registration drive in 1964 what was meant to increase the numbers of registered Black voters in Mississippi. Over 700 white volunteers joined them in the fight against voter intimidation and discrimination at the poll booths. -
A protest march from Selma to Montgomery led by Martin Luther King Jr. after the voting activist, Jimmie Lee Jackson, was shot by a state trooper, stirring up anger in the black community. This took three attempts in total after being attacked by police, being forced to turn back after the request needed extra review before it was finally accepted. -
Originally known as the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense, it was a Marxist-Leninist Black Power organization founded by the two college students Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton in Oakland California. -
A legal case in which the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously agreed that anti miscegenation statues in Virginia was unconstitutional under the 14th Amendment. -
Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated by the suspect known as "James Earl Ray." Who once pleaded guilty but changed his plead to that he was a victim of a conspiracy, but all clues seemed to point to him and was sentenced to 99 years in prison. Controversy still surrounds the assassination to this day.