• NAACP was founded

  • Jackie Robinson joined the Brooklyn Dodgers

  • Brown v. Board of Education

  • Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man

  • Congress passed the Civil Rights Act of 1957

  • Desegregation of Central High in Little Rock, Arkansas

  • Sit-in at Woolworth’s lunch counter

  • CORE “freedom ride”

  • Dr. King was thrown into Birmingham Jail

  • March on Washington

  • Congress passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964

  • “Bloody Sunday”

  • Voting Rights Act

  • Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated