Civil Rights Movement

By emw523

  • Jackie Robinson becomes first African American to play in major league baseball

  • Emmett Till killed

  • Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat & was arrested

  • Montgomery Bus Boycott ended in victory

  • Federal troops guarded African American children as they went into a school

  • Four college students do a peaceful lunch counter sit-in

  • Martin Luther King Jr. gives his "I Have A Dream" speech

  • Martin Luther King assassinated causes many riots

  • Supreme Court rules "actual desegregation" is needed in schools in the South

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