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Jack Roosevelt Robinson was an American professional baseball player who became the first African American to play in Major League Baseball in the modern era. -
On July 26, 1948, President Harry Truman signed Executive Order 9981, creating the President's Committee on Equality of Treatment and Opportunity in the Armed Services. -
The Montgomery bus boycott was a political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama. -
State-sanctioned segregation of public schools was a violation of the 14th amendment and was therefore unconstitutional. -
In August 1955 two Mississippians bludgeon and kill Emmett Till, a 14-year-old black boy, for whistling at a white woman -
Nine African American students were prevented from entering Little Rock, the racially segregated school by Orval Faubus, the Governor of Arkansas. -
Rosa Parks was arrested in Montgomery, Alabama, for disorderly conduct for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white man. -
This Act marked the first occasion since Reconstruction that the federal government undertook significant legislative action to protect civil rights. -
four friends sat down at a lunch counter in Greensboro. That may not sound like a legendary moment, but it was. The four people were African American, and they sat where African Americans weren't allowed to sit. -
"I Have a Dream" is a public speech that was delivered by American civil rights activist and Baptist minister Martin Luther King Jr. during the March on Washington -
riots erupted on the campus of the University of Mississippi in Oxford where locals, students, and committed segregationists had gathered to protest the enrollment of James Meredith, a black Air Force veteran attempting to integrate the all-white school. -
The Children's Crusade, or Children's March, was a march by over 5,000 school students in Birmingham, Alabama. The purpose of the march was to walk downtown to talk to the mayor about segregation in their city. -
a volunteer campaign in the United States launched in order to attempt to register as many African-American voters as possible in Mississippi -
The Selma to Montgomery marches were three protest marches, along the 54-mile highway from Selma, Alabama, to the state capital of Montgomery. -
On June 11 of 1963, Alabama governor George Wallace planted himself in a doorway of the University of Alabama to prevent it from being integrated