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NAACP was founded
The National Association for the Advancement of colored people is the oldest and most recognized civil rights organization. -
Jackie Robinson joined the Brooklyn Dodgers
Jackie Robinson Joins the Brooklyn Dodgers. On April 10, 1947, Dodgers general manager Branch Rickey announced he had purchased the contract of Jackie Robinson, setting the stage for Robinson to break Major League Baseball's color barrier. -
Brown V. Board of Education
Was a landmark 1954 Supreme case in which the justices ruled unanimously that racial segregation of children in public schools was unconstitutional. -
Rosa Parks refused to give her seat to a white man
Rosa Parks is jailed for refusing to give up her seat to a white man. A violation of the city's racial segregation laws. -
Congress passed the civil rights act of 1957
Originally proposed by Attorney General Herbert Brownell, the Act marked the first occasion since Reconstruction that the federal government undertook significant legislative action to protect civil rights. -
Desegregation of Central High In Little Rock, Arkansas
gained national attention on September 3, 1957, when Governor Orval Faubus mobilized the Arkansas National Guard in an effort to prevent nine African American students from integrating the high school. -
Sit-in at WoolWorth's lunch counter
Four black students sat down at WoolWorth's lunch counter in Greensboro, N.C. -
CORE "freedom ride"
The riders encountered only minor hostility, but in the second week the riders were severely beaten. -
Dr.King was thrown into Birmingham jail
Martin Luther King Jr's declaration that the city was the most segregation in the nation. -
March on Washington
March On Washington was a massive protest march that occurred in August 1963. -
Congress passed the civil rights act of 1964
is a landmark civil rights and U.S. labor law in the United States that outlaws discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. -
Voting rights act
signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson, aimed to overcome legal barriers at the state and local levels that prevented African Americans from exercising their right to vote as guaranteed under the 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. -
Bloody Sunday
On March 7th 1965 about 600 people crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge in an attempt to begin the Selma Montgomery March. -
Martin Luther King Jr was assassinated
Martin Luther King Jr., an American clergyman and civil rights leader, was fatally shot at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4, 1968, at 6:01 p.m. v
