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Jackie Robinson breaks the color barrier in baseball
Jackie Robinson had broke the color barrier in baseball. He was the first African American baseball player. -
Brown V. Board of Education
Was a landmark United States Supreme Court case iin which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
The Montgomery Bus Boycott, in which African Americans refused to ride city buses in Montgomery, Alabama to protest segregated seating, took place from December 5,1955 to December 20, 1956 and is regarded as the first large-scale demonstration against segregation in the United States. -
Little Rock Crisis/Little Rock Nine
On 4 September 1957, the first day of school at Central High, a white mob gathered in front of the school, and Governor Orval Faubus deployed the Arkansas National Guard to prevent the black students from entering. -
Freedom Riders
On May 4, 1961, an interracial group of student activists under the auspices of the Congress of Racial Equality departed Washington D.C. by bus to test local compliance throughout the Deep South with two Supreme Court rulings banning segregated accommodations on interstate buses and in bus terminals that served interstate routes. -
The Albany Movement
The Albany Movement mobilized thousands of citizens and attracted nationwide attention, but failed to accomplish its goals because of a determined opposition. However, it was credited as a key lesson in strategy and tactics for the American Civil Rights Movement. -
Passage of the 24th Amendment
The 24th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America abolished the poll tax for all federal elections. A poll tax was a tax of anywhere from one to a few dollars that had to be paid annually by each voter in order to be able to cast a vote. -
The Birmingham Campaign
Was a movement organized in early 1963 by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) to bring attention to the integration efforts of African Americans in Birmingham, Alabama. -
Assassination of Medgar Evers
On June 12, 1963, Medgar Evers, 37, civil rights activist and field secretary for the NAACP in Mississippi, was shot in the back while walking up to his house. His two small children witnessed his murder. -
The March on Washington & "I Have a Dream" speech
Martin Luther King Jr. delivering "I Have a Dream" at the 1963 Washington D.C. Civil Rights March. "I Have a Dream" 30-second sample from "I Have a Dream" speech by Martin Luther King Jr. -
Birmingham Church Bombing
The 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. -
Rosa Parks
Was an African American civil rights activist, whom the United States Congress called "the first lady of civil rights" and "the mother of the freedom movement.
