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Jackie Robinson Joins The Dodgers
Robinson broke the baseball color line when the Brooklyn Dodgers started him at first base on April 15, 1947. As the first major league team to play a black man since the 1880s, the Dodgers ended racial segregation from black players playing on a black only team. This ended racial segregation in sports because it was nation wide -
Brown v. Board of Education
The Supreme Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students unconstitutional. This is a momentus milestone for civil rights movement because it broke a huge barrier between blacks and whites and gave equal oppertunities to a good education for every race. -
Murder of Emmett Till
Is a black boy who was murdered in Mississippi at the age of 14 after reportedly flirting with a white woman.Several nights later, Bryant's husband Roy and his half-brother J. W. Milam went to Till's great-uncle's house. They took the boy away to a barn, where they beat him and gouged out one of his eyes, before shooting him through the head and threw his body in the Tallahatchie River, weighting it with a 70-pound cotton gin fan tied around his neck with barbed wire.This is the outcome of racis -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Was a political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama. This is a good event because it got the word out that segregration is not accepted in any way no matter the situation. And made segregated busses become unconstitutional. -
Southern Manifesto
was a document written in February and March 1956, in the United States Congress, in opposition to racial integration of public places. this event is important because it stoped lots of segregation and allowed people to interact and end racism -
Black Panthers Founded
Was a black revolutionary socialist organization active in the United States from 1966 until 1982. And is mostly known programs were its armed citizens' patrols to act like police officers and its Free Breakfast for Children program. But the group's goals were often overshadowed by the violent actions of members and their violent battles against police. Even thought this is more negative than positive its never the less a big step in the civil rights era because it helped the civil rights movmen -
24th amendment passes
Prohibits 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.
this ammendment insured an equal oppertunity to vote reguardless of wealth. -
Letter from Birmingham Jail
The letter tells people to continue using strategy of nonviolent resistance to racism, and it also says that people have a moral responsibility to break unjust laws. This is important because it is one of the most widley publisheed texts and is symbolic of MLK's perserverence. -
George Wallace & The University of Alabama
George Wallace, the Governor of Alabama, in a symbolic attempt to keep his promise of "segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever" and stop the desegregation of schools and stood infront the door of the auditorium to try to block the entry of two black students, but was later ordered to move by JFK. Even though this is a con to the civil rights movement it is an important event in this era because it shows there is not complete support of it but there is help from the presiden -
Assassination of MLK
was assassinated at the Lorraine Motel and the King family and others believe that the assassination was a conspiracy involving the US government, as alleged by Loyd Jowers in 1993, and that James Earl Ray the guy to take the blame. This tragic event in history and civil rights era taught that murder could not stop the struggle for equal rights.
