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Jackie Robinson Enters the MLB
Jack Roosevelt Robinson was an American professional baseball player who became the first African American to play in Major League Baseball in the modern era. -
Executive Order 9981 signed by President Truman
On July 26, 1948, President Harry Truman signed Executive Order 9981, creating the President's Committee on Equality of Treatment and Opportunity in the Armed Services. -
Emmett Till is murdered
Emmett Louis Till was an African American boy who was abducted, tortured, and lynched in Mississippi in 1955 at the age of 14 -
Rosa Parks Bus incident
Rosa Parks was arrested in Montgomery, Alabama, after a bus driver ordered her to give up her bus seat to a white passenger, and she refused. -
Little Rock 9
The Little Rock Nine were a group of nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957. who faced resistance from the local government -
The Birmingham Children’s March
The Children's Crusade, or Children's March, was a march by over 5,000 school students in Birmingham, Alabama on May 2–10, 1963. -
MLK's I have a dream speech
I Have a Dream, speech by Martin Luther King, Jr., that was delivered on August 28, 1963, during the March on Washington. -
16th Street Baptist Church Bombing
The 16th Street Baptist Church bombing was a terrorist bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama on September 15, 1963 -
Freedom Summer
a volunteer campaign in the United States launched to attempt to register as many African-American voters as possible in Mississippi. -
"The Ballot or the Bullet."
It was during a meeting of the Congress of Racial Equality that Malcolm X delivered this speech, t addressed the racial divide and religious isolation of the time. -
Malcom X's assasination
Malcolm X, an African American Muslim minister and human rights activist who was a popular figure during the civil rights movement, was shot multiple times and died from his wounds in Manhattan, New York City -
Black Panther Party was Formed
The Black Panther Party was a Marxist–Leninist and black power political organization founded by college students Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton -
MLK is assasinated
Martin Luther King was shot dead while standing on a balcony outside his second-floor room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. -
1968 Olympics Black Power salute
During their medal ceremony in the Olympic Stadium Tommie Smith and John Carlos, each raised their fists, signifying black power -
Bloody Sunday
Bloody Sunday, or the Bogside Massacre, was a massacre on 30 January 1972 when British soldiers shot 26 unarmed civilians during a protest march in the Bogside area of Derry, Northern Ireland.