Civil Rights Movement

By jessykadavis

  • Jackie Robinson enters Major League Baseball

    On April 15, 1947, Jackie Robinson made his MLB debut in front of 26,623 fans at Ebbets Field. Robinson started at first base and went hitless, but reached base on an error in the seventh and scored the eventual go-ahead run in a victory against the Boston Braves

  • Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court Ruling

    On May 17, 1954, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Earl Warren delivered the unanimous ruling in the landmark civil rights case Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas. State-sanctioned segregation of public schools was a violation of the 14th amendment and was therefore unconstitutional.

  • Emmett Till is murdered

    Emmett Louis Till was a 14-year-old African American who was lynched in Mississippi in 1955, after being accused of offending a white woman in her family's grocery store.

  • Montgomery Bus Boycott

    The Montgomery bus boycott was a political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama. It was a foundational event in the civil rights movement in the United States.

  • Greensboro Sit-In Protest

    Greensboro sit-in, act of nonviolent protest against a segregated lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, that began on February 1, 1960. Its success led to a wider sit-in movement, organized primarily by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), that spread throughout the South.

  • Integration of Ole Miss Riots

    The Ole Miss riot of 1962, or Battle of Oxford, was an incident of mob violence by proponents of racial segregation beginning the night of September 30, 1962.

  • The Birmingham Children’s March

    The Children's Crusade, or Children's March, was a march by over 1,000 school students in Birmingham, Alabama on May 2–3, 1963. Initiated and organized by Rev. James Bevel, the purpose of the march was to walk downtown to talk to the mayor about segregation in their city.

  • George Wallace’s “Stand in the Schoolhouse Door”

    The Stand in the Schoolhouse Door took place at Foster Auditorium at the University of Alabama on June 11, 1963.

  • 16th Street Baptist Church Bombing

    The 16th Street Baptist Church bombing was a white supremacist terrorist bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, on Sunday, September 15, 1963.

  • Civil Rights Act of 1964 is passed

    This is a law passed prohibiting discrimination based on your race, color, religion, or sex.

  • The Selma Marches

    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.

  • Voting Rights Act of 1965 is passed

    This act was signed into law on August 6, 1965, by President Lyndon Johnson. It outlawed the discriminatory voting practices adopted in many southern states after the Civil War, including literacy tests as a prerequisite to voting.

  • Black Panther Party is formed

    The Black Panther Party, originally the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense, was a Marxist-Leninist Black Power political organization founded by college students Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton in October 1966 in Oakland, California.

  • Loving v. Virginia Supreme Court ruling

    Loving v. Virginia, 388 U.S. 1, was a landmark civil rights decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court ruled that laws banning interracial marriage violate the Equal Protection and Due Process Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S.

  • Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is assassinated

    This is when Dr.Martin Luther King, was assassinated. He was a black man who fought for his and other African American rights. He wrote the ¨ I have a dream,¨ speech.