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Jackie Robinson enters Major League Baseball
Jackie Robinson made his MLB debut in front of 26,623 fans at Ebbets field. Robinson started at first base and went hitless, but reached base on an error in the seventh and scored the eventual go-ahead run in a victory against the Boston Braves. -
Executive Order 9981 signed by President Truman
President Harry Truman signed Executive Order 9981, creating the President's Committee on Equality of Treatment and Opportunity in the Armed Services. The order mandated the desegregation of the U.S. military. -
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
He was an American Christian minister, activist, and political philosopher who was one of the most prominent leaders in the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
The Montgomery bus boycott was a social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama. -
Rosa Parks Arrest
Rosa Parks was arrested in Montgomery, Alabama, after a bus driver ordered her to give up her bus seat to another passenger, and she refused. -
Little Rock Nine Intervention
they were a group of nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957. Their enrollment was followed by the Little Rock Crisis, in which the students were initially prevented from entering the racially segregated school by Orval Faubus, the Governor of Arkansas. -
Greensboro Sit-In Protest
four friends sat down at a lunch counter in Greensboro. That may not sound like a legendary moment, but it was. The four people were African American, and they sat where African Americans weren't allowed to sit. They did this to take a stand against segregation. -
The Birmingham Children’s March
it was a march by over 5,000 school students in Birmingham, Alabama on May 2–10, 1963. Initiated and organized by Rev. James Bevel, the purpose of the march was to walk downtown to talk to the mayor about segregation in their city. -
16th Street Baptist Church Bombing
it was a bombing that happened at a church in 1963. the bombing killed four African-American girls and injuring more than 20 inside the church. -
Freedom summer
was a volunteer campaign in the United States launched in June 1964 to attempt to register as many African-American voters as possible in Mississippi.