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NAACP was founded
to fight racism and violence against all people of color in the United States. -
Jackie Robinson joined the Brooklyn Dodgers
Between April 10 and April 15, Robinson went from being a Montreal Royal to Brooklyn Dodger. -
Sit-in at Woolworth’s lunch counter
four African American college students sat down at a lunch counter at Woolworth's -
Brown v. Board of Education
Supreme Court case that ruled segregation in public schools unconstitutional. -
Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man
Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama. -
Desegregation of Central High in Little Rock, Arkansas-
a key event in the American civil rights movement. -
Congress passed the Civil Rights Act of 1957
and signed into law by President Dwight D. Eisenhower on September 9, 1957. It was the first federal civil rights legislation since Reconstruction. -
CORE “freedom ride”
The riders flew to New Orleans, bringing to an end the first Freedom Ride of the 1960s. -
Dr. King was thrown into Birmingham Jail
He was jailed for participating in a nonviolent protest against segregation. -
March on Washington
an estimated 250,000 people gathered in Washington, D.C., for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom -
Congress passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964
President Lyndon B. Johnson signed it into law on July 2, 1964 -
Voting Rights Act
An act to enforce the fifteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States -
“Bloody Sunday”
a march held in Selma, Alabama, in 1965 for the 600 people attacked on the Edmund Pettus Bridge. -
Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated
who was shot to death on April 4, 1968, as he stood on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee.