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Jackie Robinson enters Major League Baseball
Jackie Robinson was the first African American to join the MLB and he was also insanely good with 137 home runs after nine years. He also opened the doors for a lot more African Americans to want to join the MLB or more sports. -
Executive Order 9981 signed by President Truman
This executive order was signed to desegregate the U.S. military which effectively ended discrimination in the military. This allowed African Americans to now serve in any branch without segregation. -
Emmett Till is murdered
This 14 year old boy was visiting a small town in Mississippi and was abducted and lynched for allegedly whistling at a white woman offending her, Carolyn Bryant, in her family's grocery store. the boy's brutally beaten body was found floating in the Tallahatchie River. -
Rosa Parks Arrest
Rosa Parks was arrested for disorderly conduct for not giving up her seat in the front of the bus for a white man but was later bailed out by white friends Clifford Durr, an attorney, and his wife, Virginia. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
The Montgomery bus boycott was a civil rights protest against segregated seats and Rosa Parks arrest for not giving up her seat. Almost all Africans American would not ride the bus they would ride bikes or anything other than riding that bus. -
Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court Ruling
Brown went against the education board because his daughter was not allowed entry into a white elementary school. it was eventually ruled that the segregation in public schools based on race was unconditional -
Civil Rights Act of 1957 is passed
The Civil Rights Act of 1957 was passed and there was a court branch called the civil rights branch and this was the first time the government undertook significant legislative action to protect civil rights. -
Little Rock Nine Intervention
The little rock nine went to Central High School once before and got stopped by the national guard but they went a second time but this time they were accompanied by federal troops protecting them. -
Greensboro Sit-In Protest
It was a series of protests against segregated lunch counter in result they removed their segregation policy. -
Integration of Ole Miss Riots
a group of over 2,000 segregationist and other students decided to riot when a African American Air Force veteran and there ended up being two people killed. -
The Birmingham Children’s March
Over 1,000 African American school students skipped school to march to the mayor to discuss the segregation in their city. this was very impactful because that amount of students not in school is going to cause some kind of attention. -
George Wallace’s “Stand in the Schoolhouse Door”
This was a failed attempt of George Wallace to stop and block the radical integration in the university of Alabama. -
March on Washington / I Have a Dream Speech
Martin Luther King Jr. made one of his most popular speeches at the Lincoln memorial and the speech was called "I have a dream" and it was attended by thousands, he talks about the long history of racial injustice in America and encourages his audience to hold their country accountable. -
Freedom Summer
thousands of students from different collages and different backgrounds and civil rights organizations to protest the one goal they all were there for which was to increase voter registration among African Americans in Mississippi. -
The Selma Marches / Bloody Sunday
There was 3 different marches along the 54- mile highway in Alabama but was stopped once violently by officers beating unarmed marchers with Billy clubs and spraying teargas.