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Jackie Robinson joins the Dodgers
On April 5th, 1947 Jack Roosevelt (Jackie) Robinson cracked the racial barrier in big-league baseball when the Brooklyn Dodgers signed him. He was the first African-American to play in major league baseball in the modern era. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Rosa Parks, a college-educated black seamstress, made history in Montgomery, Alabama when she boarded a bus, took a seat in the "whites only" section, and refused to give up her spot. She was arrested for violating the city status. Her arrest sparked a yearlong boycott of the city buses so no blacks would ever be submitted to the absurdities and segregation any more. -
Greensboro (NC) sit-in
The Greensboro sit-ins was a series of nonviolent protests in Greensboro, North Carolina which led to the Woolworth department store chain reversing its policyof racial segregation in the Southern United States. -
Freedom Riders
The Freedom Writers were a group of people across the South who rode interstate buses to challenge the non-enforcement of the United States Supreme Court decisions Irene Morgan v. Commonwealth of Virginia (1946) and Boynton v. Virginia (1960) -
Medgar Evers murdered
Medgar Evers was an African American civil rights worker, involved in efforts to overturn segregation at the University of Mississippi. He became a field secretary for the NAACP. He was murdered June 12,1963 by Byron De La Beckwith. -
March on Washington
"The Great March on Washington" was one of the largest political rallies for human rights in the U.S. history and called for civil & economic rights for African Americans. -
16th Street Bombing
On Seotember 16, 1963 an explosion blasted a Baptist church killing four black girls who had finished thier lesson called "The Love That Forgives." outrage over the incident and the clash between protesters and police that followed helped draw national attention to the hard-fought struggle for civil rights for African Americans. -
24th Amendement Passes
The 24th amendment was passed January 23rd,1964. It prohibited both Congress and the states from conditioning the right to vote in federal elections on payment of a poll tax or other types of tax. -
Murder In Mississippi
James Earl Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Micahel "Mickey" Schwerner were shot at a ose range by members of the KKK. Their murders sparked national outrage and a massive federal investigation. Outrage over their deaths assisted in the passing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. -
Black Panthers Found
On October 15th,1966 the Black Panthers were found. They believed that the non-violent campaign of MLK had failed and any promised changes to their lifestyles via the "traditional" civil rights movement. They achieved national and international notoriety through its involvement in the Black Power movement and U.S. politics of the 1960s and 1970s.
