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Jackie Robinson enters Major League Baseball
Jackie Robinson plays baseball and he is the first black man to do so -
Executive Order 9981 signed by President Truman
president Truman sighed this to abolish segregation in the u.s military -
Integration of Ole Miss Riots
led by black air force veteran James Meredith, riots at the University of Mississippi in oxford after he tried to join a all white school -
Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court Ruling
this was when the question is separate but equal was brought up again, the original ruling of the was it was considered constitutional but when brown brought it up again to the supreme court it was a unanimous decisions to end segregation because it was deemed unconstitutional -
Emmett Till is murdered
a 14-year old teen was killed for whistling at a white girl -
Rosa Parks Arrest
she didn't want to give up her seat while riding the bus and got arrested -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
because Rosa parks was arrested people stopped taking the bus till they changed the segregated busing seating -
Little Rock Nine Intervention
when 9 black kids tried to walk into a all white school because they were allowed to because the segregation thing was just ended a bunch of white people harassed and hurt these innocent kids so president Eisenhower got the military to help them get to class safely -
Greensboro Sit-In Protest
it was when 4 black students went to a whites only restaurant and refused to leave science they were denied service -
Civil Rights Act of 1957 is passed
sighed by president Eisenhower it stopped the racial issues when black people tried to vote and it made the voting more equal -
The Birmingham Children’s March
it was little kids protesting against segregation -
George Wallace’s “Stand in the Schoolhouse Door
the Alabama governor George Wallace stood in front of a school and prevented black students from entering and he even said "segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever" -
March on Washington / I Have a Dream Speech
around 250,00 people show up and marched with Martin Luther King Jr and he talked about his dream of ending segregation -
Freedom Summer
it was to gain support for black peoples right to vote -
The Selma Marches / Bloody Sunday
a lot of innocent protesters who were marching got injured by the police