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Jackie Robinson enters Major League Baseball
Jackie Robinson was the first African American to play in Major League baseball. -
Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court Ruling
The Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court Ruling was a landmark decision by the U.S. Supreme Court which ruled that U.S. state laws establishing racial segregation in public schools are unconstitutional, even if the segregated schools are otherwise equal in quality. -
Rosa Parks Arrest
Rosa Parks was an African American who refused to give up her seat to a white man on the bus. -
Little Rock Nine Intervention
The Little Rock Nine were a group of nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957. The students were initially prevented from entering the racially segregated school by Orval Faubus, the Governor of Arkansas. -
March on Washington / I Have a Dream Speech
The March of Washington was to demand an end to segregation, fair wages and economic justice, voting rights, education, and long overdue civil rights protections. -
George Wallace’s “Stand in the Schoolhouse Door”
to stop the enrollment of African-American students Vivan Malone and James Hood. -
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 -
The Selma Marches / Bloody Sunday
organized to protest the blocking of Black Americans' right to vote by the systematic racist structure of the Jim Crow South. -
Malcolm X is murdered
Malcolm X was an American Muslim minister and human rights activist who was a prominent figure during the civil rights movement -
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is assassinated
was an American Christian minister, activist, and political philosopher who was one of the most prominent leaders in the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968.