Civil Rights Movement

By Elise Lovegood

  • The Brooklyn Dodgers signed Jackie Robinson to their team

  • Military segregation ends

    President Harry Truman is embarrassed over question about African- Americans being treated unfairly

  • The supreme court ruled against segregated classrooms

  • Rosa Parks loyal member of the NAACP refuses to give up her seat to a white man

  • Nine African-American teenagers tried to enter an all white high school

    President Dwight Eisenhower sent army troops to get them in (school closes the next year so they didn't need to integrate the students

  • Martin Luther King founded the SCLC

  • Rosa Parks death