Events in the Civil Rights Movement

By bratanovn11

  • 1947

    1947
    The Brooklyn Dodgers signed Jackie Robinson to their team.

  • 1948

    1948
    Harry Truman orders to end segregation in the military.

  • 1954

    1954
    The Supreme Court rules against segregation in schools

  • 1955

    1955
    Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat to a white man on a public bus.

  • 1957

    1957
    Martin Luther King Jr. and others formed the southern Christian Leadership Conference. (SCLC)

  • 1957

    1957
    Nine African American teenagers tried to enter an all white central high school in little rock.

  • 1957

    1957
    The students tried again but couldn't get in. The next day President Dwight Eisenhower sent U.S. army troops to take the Little Rock Nine to school.