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Jackie Robinson
This was the date when Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in the MLB and made his debut for the Brooklyn Dodgers. -
Brown vs Board of Education
A case was won for equal schooling -
Bus Boycott started
Rosa Parks was arrested for sitting in a white persons seat, and so Blacks boycotted buses, ruined the cities economy -
Little Rock nine
Nine African American Students on this date were attmitted to Little Rock High School, white people at that school were still very discriminatory, and the African American students had to be guarded by soldiers. -
Greensboro luch counter Sit-in
4 black college students sat down at a white only lunch counter in a hope to try to end segregation. The next day the number grew to 19 and then to 85 -
I had a dream speech
On this day, Martin Luther King Jr. gave his famous "I had a dream speech" at lincoln memorial. A quarter of a million people gathered to see it. -
Sicteenth Street Baptist Church
A bomb exploded, killing 4 black girls. People now wondered if they were ever safe in church again. -
Civil Rights Act
Outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex or natural origin. -
March at Selma
600 people marched into Montgomery to show their campaign to get civil rights. -
Voting Rights Act
Outlawed poll taxes and literacy tests so blacks can vote. -
Assasination of King
On this day, King was shot to death by James Earl Ray in Memphis, Tennesee
