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Jackie Robinson enters Major League Baseball
Jackie Robinson made his MLB debut in front of 26,623 fans at Ebbets field. Robinson started at first base and went hitless, but reached base on an error in the seventh and scored the eventual go-ahead run in a victory against the Boston Braves. -
Executive Order 9981 signed by President Truman
President Harry Truman signed Executive Order 9981, creating the President's Committee on Equality of Treatment and Opportunity in the Armed Services. This order was to create equality of treatment and opportunity for those in the military. -
Emmett Till is murdered
He was an African American boy who was abducted, tortured, and lynched in Mississippi in 1955 at the age of 14, after being accused of offending a white woman, Carolyn Bryant, in her family's grocery store. -
Rosa Parks Arrest
Rosa Parks was arrested in Montgomery for disorderly conduct for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white man. Civil Rights leader E. D. Nixon bailed her out of jail, joined by white friends Clifford Durr, an attorney, and his wife, Virginia. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a civil rights protest which African Americans refused to ride city buses in Montgomery to protest against the segregated seating. This is considered the first large-scale U.S. demonstration against segregation. -
Little Rock Nine Intervention
THis was a group of nine students.Rioting broke out when they tried to enter the school, and the Little Rock police removed the Nine for their safety. This was a part of the battle for civil rights for all Americans. -
Greensboro Sit-In Protest
four friends sat at a lunch counter in Greensboro. The four people were African American, and they sat where African Americans weren't allowed to sit. They did this to take a stand against segregation. -
I Have a Dream Speech
This speech was a call for equality. It identified the faults of America and what measures we needed to make it a better place, and make everyone be treated equally. -
16th Street Baptist Church Bombing
The 16th Street Baptist Church bombing was a terrorist bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama on September 15, 1963. The bombing was committed by a white supremacist terrorist group. -
Freedom Summer
Freedom Summer was a volunteer campaign in the United States launched in June 1964 to attempt to register as many African-American voters as possible in Mississippi. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964 is passed
President Lyndon Johnson signed it into law just a few hours after it was passed by Congress.This act outlawed segregation in businesses such as theaters, restaurants, and hotels -
Malcolm X is murdered
Malcolm X was an African American Muslim minister and human rights activist who was a popular figure during the civil rights movement, was shot multiple times and died from his wounds in Manhattan, New York. -
Voting Rights Act of 1965 is passed
The United States Senate passed the Voting Rights Act of 1965. The long-delayed issue of voting rights had come to the forefront because of a voter registration drive launched by civil rights activists in Selma, Alabama. -
Loving v. Virginia Supreme Court ruling
A landmark civil rights decision of the U.S. Supreme Court which ruled that laws banning interracial marriage violate the Equal Protection and Due Process Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution -
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is assassinated
Martin Luther King was shot while standing on a balcony outside his second-floor room at the Lorraine Motel. An assassin fired a single shot that caused severe wounds to the lower right side of his face.