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Jackie Robinson enters Major League Baseball
Jackie Robinson was the First African American to play Major League Baseball during Modern Times. This was very important because it broke the segregation/ Color barrier between the White and African Americans. -
Emmett Till is Murdered
Emmett Till was a 14-year-old African American who went to visit relatives in Mississippi. But was kidnapped, beaten, Shot in the head, and had a metal fan with barbed wire around his neck. Then he was thrown into the Thallahatchie River. This sparked an upsurge in activism which later became the Civil Rights Movement. -
Rosa Parks Gets Arrested
Rosa Parks was arrested because she refused to give up her seat on a bus to white person. This was very important, because it sparked a 381-day bus boycott, and this was important because in 1956 the Supreme Court banned segregation on public Transportation. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a civil rights protest during which African Americans refused to ride city buses in Montgomery, Alabama, to protest segregated seating. The boycott took place from December 5, 1955, to December 20, 1956, and is regarded as the first large-scale U.S. demonstration against segregation. This was important because later the Supreme Court made Segregation on busses unconstitutional. This was a step towards giving African Americans the rights they deserve. -
Little Rock Nine Intervention
The Little Rock Nine was a group of Nine African American students trying to go to school but was stopped because Governor Orval Faubus of Arkansas called in the National Guard to keep the students from entering the school. Later that month President Dwight D. Eisenhower sent in federal troops to escort the Little Rock Nine into the school. This was important because it showed the First African American students to desegregate the Little Rock Central High School. -
Civil Rights Act of 1957
The Civil Rights Act of 1957 gave the right for EVERYONE to vote, and this included African Americans. This was signed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower. And this was very important because it was a step toward giving African Americans the rights they deserve. -
Greensboro Sit-In Protest
Four friends 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. They did this to take a stand against segregation. This was important because it was a non-violent protest, and was also a successful protest for Civil Rights. -
George Wallace’s “Stand in the Schoolhouse Door”
George Wallace, the Governor of Alabama, in a symbolic attempt to keep his inaugural promise of "segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever" and stop the desegregation of schools, stood at the door of the auditorium as if to block the entry of two African American students: Vivian Malone and James Hood. -
Medgar Evers Shooting
Medgar Evers was a 37-year-old Civil rights activist.
And a little after Midnight just coming home after having a meeting with the NAACP. As he began the short walk up to his single-story rambler, the bullet struck Evers in the back.
The fury over Evers's murder fueled the March on Washington in August 1963, and his death is widely considered a pivotal event in the civil rights movement. -
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. The church was a place where African Americans would meet, and have Civil Rights meetings. -
Freedom Summer
Freedom Summer or The Mississippi Summer Project was a volunteer campaign in the United States to attempt to register as many African American Voters as possible in Mississippi. This was important because it brought a rise in awareness of voting rights and disenfranchisement experienced by African Americans in Mississippi. -
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. A spokesman for the Nation of Islam until 1964, he was a vocal advocate for Black empowerment and the promotion of Islam within the Black community. This was important because African American's needed someone to stand up for their rights, and Malcolm X did this Just like Martin Luther King jr did. -
Black Panther Party is formed
Founded in 1966 in Oakland, California, the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense was the era's most influential militant black power organization. Its members confronted politicians, challenged the police, and protected black citizens from brutality. This was important because the African Americans were fighting for their rights, and they would do this with a fight, this group was important because police brutality was horrible, but with this group, they could try to defend themselves. -
Loving V. Virginia
Loving V. Virginia was a 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. Loving v Virginia is considered one of the most significant legal decisions of the civil rights era. By declaring Virginia's anti-miscegenation law unconstitutional. Supreme Court ended prohibitions on interracial marriage and dealt a major blow to segregation. -
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is assassinated
Martin Luther King Jr. 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. He was important because he contributed to the overall success of the civil rights movement in the mid-1900s and continues to impact civil rights movements in the present.