Major Events of the Civil Rights Movement

By ash.lyn.a

  • Jackie Robinson is signed to Brooklyn Dodgers

    Jackie Robinson is signed to Brooklyn Dodgers
    Robinson was the first African American to play in major league baseball since 1889.

  • Military Segregation Ends

    President Harry Truman was embarrassed because of the questions on how America was a democracy if African Americans were treated badly.

  • Supreme Court Rules Against School Segregation

    Supreme Court Rules Against School Segregation
    The court agreed that segregated schools for African Americans were unequal and created a 'feeling of inferiortity' for African American children.

  • Rosa Parks is arrested

    Rosa Parks is arrested
    After refusing to give her seat to a white man on a full bus, Rosa Parks is arrested.

  • Montgomery Buses Desegregate

    Montgomery Buses Desegregate
    The US Supreme Court rules that Montgomery buses must desegregate.

  • Segregated Little Rock Public School Closes

    Segregated Little Rock Public School Closes
    Due to not wanting to integrate, Little Rock closes their public schools.

  • Martin Luther King Jr. Organizes Bus Boycott

    Martin Luther King Jr. Organizes Bus Boycott
    Martin Luther King Jr. is hired by the head of the Montgomery NAACP chapter to organize a bis boycott