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The Integration of Major League Baseball
This was important because MLB teams found it easier to negotiate and sign Negro League talent on their own.After MLB's integration, the Negro National League managed to play only one more season. If this didnt happen Jackie Robinson wouldnt have been name the greatest baseball player of history. -
The Supreme Court Decision of Plessy v. Ferguson
The landmark for this case was important because it established the constitutionality of racial segregation. its known as the ¨badge" of slavery. -
The Tuskegee Airmen
They helped set the stage for civil rights advocates to struggle to end racial discrimination during the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s. The Tuskegee Airmen were the first Black military aviators in the U.S. Army Air Corps. -
The Integration of the Armed Forces
Truman decided to desegregate the military by signing the Executive Order 9981. This prohibited the discrimination against military personnel race, color, religion or national origin. -
The Supreme Court Decision of Brown v. Board of Education
This case was about school segregation Warren wrote that “in the field of public education the doctrine of ‘separate but equal’ has no place,” as segregated schools are “inherently unequal.” As a result, the Court ruled that the plaintiffs were being “deprived of the equal protection of the laws guaranteed by the 14th Amendment.” -
The Death of Emmitt Till
Emmett Till's death had a powerful effect on Civil Righs activists in Mississippi . Medgar Evers a NAACP field officer in Jackson, Mississippi, urged the NAACP national leadership to get involved, and along with NAACP field workers Ruby Hurley and Amzie Moore, conducted a secret search for black witnesses willing to take the serious risk to come forward. -
The Montgomery Bus Boycott
During the Montgomery Bus Boycott Rosa Parks a then member of the NAACP refused to give up her seat on the bus to white passenger. She has then changed America for better racial equality. -
The Integration of Little Rock High School
Governor Orval Faubus ordered the Arkansas National Guard to prevent African American students from enrolling at Central High School.The 1954 Supreme Court decision Brown v. Topeka made segregation in public schools illegal. -
The Civil Rights Act of 1957
The result was the Civil Rights Act of 1957, the first civil rights legislation since Reconstruction. The new act established the Civil Rights Section of the Justice Department and empowered federal prosecutors to obtain court injunctions against interference with the right to vote. -
The Greensboro Four Lunch Counter Sit-In
Those four men that refused to move out of those chairs in the resturaunt changed Americas society forever. What they did represents equality, dignity and respect. -
The Freedom Rides by Freedom Riders of 1961
The Freedom Rides of 1961 were to help end racial segregation in the South by riding an Interstate buses in the South. The Riders were successful in convincing the Federal Government to enforce federal law for the integration of interstate travel. -
The Integration of the University of Mississippi
The event was an important piece of history because people to were against segregation went to University of Mississippi to stop the prevention of African Americans from enrolling in this school. -
The Integration of the University of Alabama by Vivian Malone & James A Hood
James Hood and Vivian Malone became the first two black students to enroll successfully at the University of Alabama. Along with the high school students known as the Little Rock Nine in 1957 and James Meredith’s integration of the University of Mississippi in 1962, Malone and Mr. Hood became national symbols of the struggle to break down educational barriers during the civil rights era. -
The March on Washington & ¨I Have A Dream¨ Speech by MLK
This was a great moment in history because after MLK´s it changed America forever. he called for civil and economic rights and a end to racism in the United States. -
The Assassination of John F. Kennedy in Dallas,Texas
This was a turning a point for the nation because he stood up for what was right. He supported Civil Rights Activists -
The Twenty-Fourth Amendment
The Twenty-fourth Amendment was adopted as a response to policies adopted in various Southern states after the ending of post-Civil War Reconstruction. -
The Assassination of Malcom X
Malcolm X founded Muslim Mosque, Inc, a religious organization, and the Organization of Afro-American Unity, a secular group that advocated Pan-Africanism. -
The Selma of Montgomery March: ¨Bloody Sunday¨
It greatly reduced the disparity between Black and white voters in the U.S. and allowed greater numbers of African Americans to participate in politics and government at the local, state and national level. -
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 signed by President Johnson
This was important because it prohibited discrimination in public places, provided for the integration of schools and other public facilities, and made employment discrimination illegal. -
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
It offered African Americans a way to get around the barriers at the state and local levels that had prevented them from exercising their 15th Amendment right to vote. -
Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. in Memphis, Tennessee
His assassination led to an outpouring of anger among Black Americans, as well as a period of national mourning that helped speed the way for an equal housing bill that would be the last significant legislative achievement of the civil rights era. -
The Voting Rights Act of 1968
prohibited discrimination concerning the sale, rental, and financing of housing based on race, religion, national origin, and since 1974.
