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Emmett Till is murdered
A young African American boy is kidnapped tortured and hung all bcs of the color of his skin. -
Jackie Robinson enters Major League Baseball
First African American to debut in the MLB -
Executive Order 9981 signed by President Truman
Truman places a policy that desegregates the armed forces allowing fair and equal treatment to African American soldiers. -
Rosa Parks Arrest
Rosa parks an active activist sat down on a bus and refused to give up her seat for a white man leading to her arrest -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
The Montgomery bus boycott was a collective effort in no longer riding the bus causing the company to lose thousands of dollars leading to the change of rules and laws in regard to the seating on the bus -
Civil Rights Act of 1957 is passed
was the first time since the reconstruction the president signed a act to influence the civil rights movement -
Little Rock Nine
The Little Rock Nine were a group of nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957. Their enrollment was followed by the Little Rock Crisis, in which the students were initially prevented from entering the racially segregated school by Orval Faubus, the Governor of Arkansas -
Integration of Ole Miss Riots
A retired black air force member attempted to integrate into the all white school of oxford causing a hoard of people many committed segregationist -
The Birmingham Children’s March
5,000 school students started to march in Birmingham Alabama, to speak to the mayor about segregation in their city. -
George Wallace’s “Stand in the Schoolhouse Door”
The Governor of Alabama attempts to keep his promise to stop desegregation by standing in the door way of the school -
Medgar Evers shooting
megar was an active civil rights leader who was returning home after meeting with NAACP when he was shoot in the back by Byron De La Beckwith -
March on Washington / I Have a Dream Speech
hundreds of not thousands of people marched on the capitol up to the Lincoln memorial and listened to Martin Luther king JR give his I have a dream speech -
16th Street Baptist Church Bombing
A bomb was detonated at the 16th Street baptist church being a clear hate crime against the mainly African American community -
Freedom Summer
Freedom summer is a mass peaceful protest where they tried to get as many African Americans to register to vote as possible -
Black Panther Party is formed
The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense (BPP) was founded in October 1966 in Oakland, California by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale