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Jackie Robinson
Jackie was an American baseball player who became the first African American to play in Major League Baseball in the modern era. Robinson broke the baseball color line when the Brooklyn Dodgers started him at first base on April 15, 1947. As the first major league team to play a black man since the 1880s, the Dodgers ended racial segregation that had relegated black players to the Negro leagues for six decades. -
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Civil Rights Movements
Jackie was an American baseball player who became the first African American to play in Major League Baseball in the modern era. Robinson broke the baseball color line when the Brooklyn Dodgers started him at first base on April 15, 1947. As the first major league team to play a black man since the 1880s, the Dodgers ended racial segregation that had relegated black players to the Negro leagues for six decades. -
Brown vs. Board of Education
The supreme court rules that segragated schools is unconstitutional, overruling plessy vs. furguson, the case that established the "seperate but equal" principle. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Blacks Boycott the montgomery alabama public bus system for a year after rosa parks refused to give up her seat to a white man. this enraged the white community and rosa was thrown in jail. she was standing up for what she believed in and for that it helped the civil rights movements and gave them strength. -
Freedom Riders
Freedom Riders were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States in 1961 and following years to challenge the non-enforcement of the United States Supreme Court decisions Irene Morgan v. Commonwealth of Virginia and Boynton v. Virginia, which ruled that segregated public buses were unconstitutional.The Southern states had ignored the laws. -
Assassination of MLK
Martin Luther King, Jr. was an American clergyman, activist, and prominent leader of the African-American civil rights movement and Nobel Peace Prize laureate who became known for his advancement of civil rights by using civil disobedience. He was assassinated at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee on April 4, 1968, at the age of 39.
