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Jacky Robinson
Jacky Robinson was an African American who was the first to ever play in Major League Baseball while being in a segregated year 1947. Jacky Robinson inspired many other African Americans to play sports they love. To this day many people from other countries play the sport they love. -
Brown vs board
Brown vs board was a Supreme Court case that said schools couldn’t be split by race anymore. The supreme court decided that “separate but equal” was unfair, also broke the rules of the constitution. This Event helped end segregation in schools. -
Rosa parks
rosa parks was a American American female who decided to go on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama Rosa parks sat in the front of the bus. When the bus started getting filled up many Americans told her to go to the back of the bus she refused. Her resistance started the largest social movement in history, the Montgomery Bus Boycott. -
Freedom rides
Freedom rides was a group of American Americans and white Americans that would go on bus trips through the America South in 1961 to protest segregated bus terminals. The group would try to use white only restrooms, bus stations and counters. Later on the freedom writers were confronted by police officers, white protesters. The first bus to arrive in Anniston, Alabama was exploded by white protesters. -
The march on Washington
March on Washington was a march that more the a quarter million people participated to march for there freedom, and jobs on this same day Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered the "I Have a Dream" speech. This speech gave African Americans hope that one day segregation will stop. -
Baptist street church bombing
On Sunday morning in Birmingham, Alabama, around 10:24 when a dynamite bomb exploded in the back stairwell of the downtown Sixteenth Street Baptist Church. The violent blast ripped through the wall, killing four African American girls on the other side and injuring more than 20 inside the church. Who bombed the church was 4 ku klux klan members despite clear evidence it was them, no arrest were made immediately, one member was arrested in 1977 and two other in 2001 and 2002. -
Freedom summer
Freedom summers was a group of 700 mostly white volunteer who joined the African Americans in Mississippi to fight against voter rights and discrimination at the polls. The increased awareness it brought to voter discrimination helped lead to the Voting Rights Act of 1965. -
Little Rock nine
Nine African American decided to who enrolled at formerly all-white Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, in September. There appearance at the high school was to test for brown vs board. On the first day of school the nine students were getting blocked by the national guards. This event drew national attention to the civil rights movement. -
Kerner commission
The Kerner Commission was formed in 1967 to investigate the causes of racial unrest in the U.S., especially the violent riots in Detroit and Newark. Detroit has 43 death’s and Newark had 26 death’s. Kerner Reported warned that America was becoming two societies, one Black, one white—separated and unequal. It identified police brutality, poverty, and discrimination as major causes of the violence. The government largely ignored the recommendations. -
George floyd
Gorge Floyd was an African American who bought cigarettes at a store. The clerk thought he used a fake $20 bill and called the police. When the cops came, they pulled a gun on him. He cooperated at first but got scared about getting in the police car, saying he was claustrophobic. The officers took him out of the car, and Derek Cauvin pressed his knee on Floyd’s neck for over nine minutes. he was taken to the hospital, where he was pronounced dead. Possibly the largest protest movement to happen