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Creation of the NAACP
The NAACP was created in 1909 by an interracial group consisting of W.E.B. Du Bois, Ida Bell Wells-Barnett, Mary White Ovington, and others concerned with the challenges facing African Americans, especially in the wake of the 1908 Springfield (Illinois) Race Riot -
Scottsboro boys
Were nine black teenagers accused in Alabama of raping two White American women on a train in 1931 -
Jackie Robinson Breaks the Color Barrier
back then all baseball teams were segregated Jackie Robinson was the first african american to play on a white people baseball team -
Brown VS Board of education
The story of Brown v. Board of Education, which ended legal segregation in public schools, is one of hope and courage. When the people agreed to be plaintiffs in the case, they never knew they would change history. -
Ruby Bridges desegregate elementary schools
Ruby Bridges was the first African American child to attend an all white public elementary school in the American South. -
The murder of Emmit Till
14 Year old Emmit Till, an African American from Chicago, is brutally murdered for flirting with a white women four days earlier. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
four days before the boycott began, Rosa Parks, an African-American woman, refused to yield her seat to a white man on a Montgomery bus. -
The Little Rock 9
Three years after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously in Brown v. Board of Education that separate educational facilities are inherently unequal, nine African American students -
Letter from a Birmingham Jail
A letter from martin luther king jr when he was in birmingham jail. -
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
This act, signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson on July 2, 1964, prohibited discrimination in public places, provided for the integration of schools and other public facilities, and made employment discrimination illegal. -
Assassination of Malcolm X
Malcolm X was shot before he was about to deliver a speech about his new organization of Afro-American Unity -
Creation of the Black Panthers
On this date in 1966, the Black Panther Party (BPP) was founded. It was a Black political organization; originally known as the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense. The BPP originated in Oakland, California, by founders Huey Newton and Bobby Seale. -
Thurgood Marshal Named Supreme Court Justice
President Lyndon Johnson appoints U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Thurgood Marshall to fill the seat of retiring Supreme Court Associate Justice Tom C. Clark. On August 30 -
Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was shot and mortally wounded as he stood on the second-floor balcony outside his room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tenn. He was pronounced dead at 7:05 p.m. at St. Joseph Hospital. -
Election of Barack Obama
He wa the first black president to be elected. He was elected in 2008 and served a total 2 terms.
