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Civil Rights Movement

By jennacolton

  • first African American major league baseball player

    first African American major league baseball player
    Jackie Robinson becomes first African American major league baseball player - bravely faces boo's, name calling

  • Ending Segregation

    Ending Segregation
    President Truman ends segregation in the Armed forces

  • Discrimination against African Americans

    Discrimination against African Americans
    African Americans faced discrimination and prejudice everywhere in the United States in the 1950's

  • Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka

    Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka
    Supreme Court ruled that separate schools could never be equal - schools are ordered to desegregate

  • Montgomery Bus Boycott

    Montgomery Bus Boycott
    Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat to a white person in Montgomery, Alabama and she got arrested and jailed

  • Desegregation

    Desegregation
    a federal judge ordered public schools in Little Rock, Arkansas to begin desegregation

  • Bombing at the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church

    Bombing at the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church
    A bomb exploded at King's old headquarters, the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church. Four black girls were killed.

  • Civil Rights Act of 1964

    Civil Rights Act of 1964
    Outlawed segregation in public facilities and banned discrimination in employment.

  • Voting Rights Act

    Voting Rights Act
    The law outlawed "literacy tests"

  • King was shot to death

    King was shot to death
    James Earl Ray was convicted for his murder. King died when the new campaign was just taking shape. King accomplished a lot of stuff.