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Jackie Robinson and the desegregation of baseball
Jackie Robinson was the first African American to play Major League Baseball -
Brown V. Board of Education. Topeka, Kansas
Because sports had start to desegrate more people wanted it for more things. Schools started to desegrate. -
Emmitt Till
Desegration makes many whites mad. Some go after Emmitt and kill him for whistling at a white women -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Rosa Parks thinks of Emmitt's murder when she refuses to give up her seat for a white man. After she got arrested the montogomery bus boycott started. -
Crisis in Little Rock
They start to desgrate more areas. Many whites block nine african american students from getting into a "white" school -
Sit-Ins (Greensboro, NC)
Four african american students sat down at a lunch counter to protest discrimination after being told they won't be served. This happened not long after the crisis in little rock where nine african american students were blocked out of a school -
Freedom Riders
Protests get more risky. Freedom Riders defie segragtion codes, just like the kids in the sit- ins, as they set off from washington D.C. to New Orleans. -
Meredith and Ole Miss
After the Freedom Riders were attacked the president intergrates the University of Mississippi, because things are getting to voilent, by allowing James Meredith to go there -
Civil Rights Protests in Birmingham
After James Meredith graduates from the university King compaigns in Birmingham. Police used police dogs to break it up. -
March On Washington
King leads civil rights protests then he speaks at washington and delivers his "I have a dream" speech. -
Birmington Church Bombing
Racial relations in the segregated south were marked by continued voilence as king said his speech. Things stay violent and a bomd explodes a church where civil rights leaders met. -
Civil Rights Act
The voilence was getting out of hand. President Johnson signed the civil rigths act. -
Freedom Summer Project (mississippi)
3 civil rights activists were killed, voilence continuesd. Voter registration drive causes more voilence. -
Selma March
After the civil rights act was passed King organizes a major campaign in Selma, Alabama to pressure the fed. government to enact voting rights legislation. -
Voting Rights Act
The Selma march lead to the voting rights act. It empowered the fed. government to oversee voting registration and elections in stated that has discrimination against minorities.
