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Jackie Robinson joins the Dodgers
When the Dodgers played him in 1947 brought the end to the baseball color line. He was the first African American player to play in the Major League Baseball. The Dodgers ended the racial segregation that relegated the African American players to the Negro League. -
Murder of Emmett Till
Emmett Till was a african american 14 year old boy who got murder in mississippi when he got cought flirting with Carolyn Bryant. Carolyn's husban Roy and his half-brother J. W. Milam whent to Emmett's uncles house and took the boy to a barn where they beat him and gouged out one of his eyes, before shooting him through the head and disposing of his body in the Tallahatchie River, with a 70-pound cotton gin fan tied to his neck with barbed wire. three days later his body was found. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
The Boycotts were done in protest of segregated public transpotation systems. It started with Rosa Parks in 1955, to 1956, when the supreme court ruled segregated buses unconstitutional. -
Little Rock Crisis
Little Rock nine was a group of African Americam students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School. Their enrollment was followed by the Little Rock Crisis were the students were not aloud to enter the racially segregated school by the governor of Arkansas. They were allowed to attentd after the intervention of President Eisenhower -
SNCC founded
Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee was an organization during the civil rights movement, The organization first began from a student meeting organized by Ella Baker held at Shaw University in April 1960. EventuallySNCC grew and gained many more participants, which was very beneficial. SNCC had projects in the states of Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Arkansas, and Maryland. -
James Meredith
He was a student at the University of Mississippi but he was denied twice the admission for the color of his skin and he was the first black student to enroll in the University of Mississippi -
Medgar Evers Murdered
He was murdered by Byron De La Beckwith, he was shot in the heart and was rushed to the local hospital but was refused the entry because of his color than later found out who he was but died 50 minutes later and was buried in the Arlignton National Cementary with full honors. -
16th Street Bombing
A bombing in a baptist church as an act as a white supremacist terrorism. The explosion at the African American church which killed 4 girls that had finish studing a lesson called "The Love That Forgives." The bombing was a turning point in the Civil Rights. -
Black Panthers Founded
The Black Panthers first originated in Califonia. They believed that the non-violent campaign of Martin Luther King had failed. These people thought that any promises or changes said to be made would take too long to be implemented or simply not introduced. -
MLK Assassinsted
He was staying in Lorraine Motel were he was standing in the balcony when he got shot in the cheek breaking his jaw and some vertebrae than the bullet travel to his sholder. the witness saw James Earl Ray running from the location. MLK was ushed to the hospital but he died.
