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Jackie Robinson enters Major League Baseball
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. -
Executive Order 9981 signed by President Truman
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. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
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. -
Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court Ruling
State-sanctioned segregation of public schools was a violation of the 14th amendment and was therefore unconstitutional. -
Emmett Till is murdered
In August 1955 two Mississippians bludgeon and kill Emmett Till, a 14-year-old black boy, for whistling at a white woman -
Little Rock Nine Intervention
Nine African American students were prevented from entering Little Rock, the racially segregated school by Orval Faubus, the Governor of Arkansas. -
Rosa Parks Arrest
Rosa Parks was arrested in Montgomery, Alabama, for disorderly conduct for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white man. -
Civil Rights Act of 1957 is passed
This Act marked the first occasion since Reconstruction that the federal government undertook significant legislative action to protect civil rights. -
Greensboro Sit-In Protest
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 Speech
"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 -
Integration of Ole Miss Riots
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 Birmingham Children’s March
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. -
Freedom Summer
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 marches
The Selma to Montgomery marches were three protest marches, along the 54-mile highway from Selma, Alabama, to the state capital of Montgomery. -
george wallace’s stand in the schoolhouse door summary
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