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Jackie Robinson enters Major league Baseball.
In 1947 Jackie Robinson, age 28, becomes the first African-American player in Major League Baseball. Robinson broke the color barrier in a sport that had been segregated for more than 50 years. -
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Little Rock Nine
was 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. -
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Greensboro Sit-In
was a civil rights protest that started in 1960, when young African American students staged a sit-in at a segregated Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, and refused to leave after being denied service. The sit-in movement soon spread to college towns throughout the South. -
The Birmingham Children´s March
was a movement organized in early 1963 by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference to bring attention to the integration efforts of African Americans in Birmingham, Alabama.more than one thousand students skipped classes and gathered at Sixth Street Baptist Church to march to downtown Birmingham, Alabama. -
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i have a dream speech
is a public speech that was delivered by American civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom on August 28, 1963, in which he called for civil and economic rights and an end to racism in the United States. -
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16th Street Baptist Church Bombing
was an act of white supremacist terrorism which occurred at the African-American 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, on Sunday, September 15, 1963. -
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civil Rights Act of 1964 passed
is a landmark civil rights and labor law in the United States that outlaws discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. It prohibits unequal application of voter registration requirements, and racial segregation in schools, employment, and public accommodations. -
The Selma Marches
Southern state legislatures had passed and maintained a series of discriminatory requirements and practices that had disenfranchised most of the millions of African Americans across the South. -
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Voting Rights Act of 1965 passed
is a landmark piece of federal legislation in the United States that prohibits racial discrimination in voting. -
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MLK assassnation
Martin Luther King Jr. was an activist who became the most visible spokesperson and leader in the Civil Rights Movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968.