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Jackie Robinson is the first Black man to join the MLB -
The supreme court ruled that segregation was uncontitutional -
Emmett till was a 14 year old boy that was whistling at a white lady which made her friends angry and they killed the Emmett till -
Rosa parks was arrested for not giving up her seat on the public bus. -
Eisenhower signed off on the first act to protect civil rights. -
5000 birmingham children marched through the city to talk to the mayor about segregation -
George Wallace stood infront of a public schools doors to stop the enrollment of african american students -
Medgar evers was a Civil rights advocate and was shot by a sniper in an assassination. -
white supremacist group bombed a primarily african american church -
Civil rights activist Malcom X was assassinated in Manhattan -
The Selma to Montgomery marches were three protest marches, held in 1965, along the 54-mile highway from Selma, Alabama, to the state capital of Montgomery. -
Got rid of prerequisites for voting -
The civil rights party formed -
The supreme court decided that interracial marriage being illegal is unconstitutional -
Civil rights activist MLK is assassinated