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Civil Rights Movement

By Madi Hobbs

  • Jackie Robinson enters Major League Baseball

    Jackie Robinson enters Major League Baseball
    Jackie was the first African American to play in Major League baseball.

  • Rosa Parks Arrest

    Rosa Parks Arrest
    Rosa Parks was arrested after a bus driver ordered her to give up her bus seat to a white man and she refused.

  • Montgomery Bus Boycott

    Montgomery Bus Boycott
    this boycott was started after Rosa Parks was arrested, the African Americans started giving free rides to the African Americans.

  • Little Rock Nine Intervention

    Little Rock Nine Intervention
    The African American kids had to be escorted to school.

  • Greensboro Sit-In Protest

    Greensboro Sit-In Protest
    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.

  • The Birmingham Children’s March

    The Birmingham Children’s March
    On 2 May more than 1,000 African American students attempted to march into downtown Birmingham, and hundreds were arrested

  • March on Washington / I Have a Dream Speech

    March on Washington / I Have a Dream Speech
    "I have a dream today! I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, and every hill and mountain shall be made low. The rough places will be plain and the crooked places will be made straight, "and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together." This is our hope"(MLK1).

  • Freedom Summer

    Freedom Summer
    The Freedom Summer Project resulted in various meetings, protests, freedom schools, freedom housing, freedom libraries, and a collective rise in awareness of voting rights and disenfranchisement experienced by African Americans in Mississippi.

  • Black Panther Party is formed

    Black Panther Party is formed
    The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense (BPP) was founded in Oakland, California by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale, who met at Merritt College in Oakland. It was a revolutionary organization with an ideology of Black nationalism, socialism, and armed self-defense, particularly against police brutality.

  • Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is assassinated

    Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is assassinated
    Martin Luther King was shot dead while standing on a balcony outside his second-floor room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee.