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Jackie Robinson
The act of him joining a white baseball team led a generation of African Americans to question the "separate but equal" statemetn and paved the way for the civil rights movement. -
Education of Topeka, Kansas.
One of the first major victories of the civil rights movemetn was that the supreme cour decied that the state law to separate blacks and whites in school, was unconstitutional. -
Crisis in Little Rock
Governor Faubus ordered the national Guard to prevent black students from enrolling at the local Hight school. -
Emmitt Till
One of the contributers to the increase of civil rights was the Emmitt till incidient. Emmitt Till was a African American who was murded because he was flirting with a white girl. -
Montgomery bus boycott
A social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama in which was a seminal event in the Civil Rights movement. -
Sit ins (Greensboro, NC)
While not the first sit-ins of the civil rights movement they were an instrumental action leading to increased national sentiment at a crucial period in black history. -
freedom riders
Civil rights activist who rode interstate buses into the southern United States which were segregated at the time. -
Meredith and ole Miss
An African American man named James Meredith attempted enroll at the University of Mississippi. -
Protest in Birmingham
It was a effort to brin attention to the integration efforts of African Americans in Birmingham. The movement was led by MLK, James Bevel and others. -
March of Washington
200,000 americans gathered in D.C. for a polticial rally known as the March on Washington. It was supposed to shed light on the political and social challenges that blacks continued to struggle with across the country. -
Civil Rights Act
The civil Rights act prohibted the discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex or national orgin. It was a landmark of the Civil rights movement in the United States. -
Freedom Summer Project (Mississippi)
This projct was just a port of a much larger project by several other civil rights groups to expand black voting in the south. -
Selma March
This was one of three marches that were a part of the voting Rights movemetn underway in Selma, Alabama. -
Voting Rights Act
The voting rights act was signed into a law by Lyndon Johnson, aimed to overcome legal barriers at the state and local levels that prevented blacks from exercising theri right ot vote under the 15th Amendment.
