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Jackie Robinson Integrates MLB
Jackie Robinson, the first Black player in a previous all-white baseball league, faced many tough challenges trying to overcome segregation. #42 was a wonderful ball player and his number is the only number retired from all of baseball. -
Brown vs. Board of Education decision
The Brown v Board of Education decision ruled that Seperate was not equal, especially in school systems, a huge win for the Civil Rights movement. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Jump-started by Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr., the Montgomery bus boycott was when Black people refused to ride the bus until it was desegregated, decreasing the business profit of the buses. They all walked everywhere or carpooled or helped eachother out. -
Emmitt Till Murder
Emmitt Till was a 14 year old black boy from the North who was beaten to a bloody pulp and killed in Mississippi because he winked at a white cashier in a store. His beaten face appeared front page in the newspapers, and his murder became public knowledge. -
Integration of Little Rock High School
Nine black High Schoolers were chosen to start desegregating the all-white central high in Little Rock, Arkansas. The Governor of Arkansas called in the National Guard to keep them from coming into the school, so the president had to send in Federal troops to protect these nine kids while they went to school. -
Sit Ins
Sit ins were when a whole group of African American people would go to a business or restaurant where they weren't allowed or served there, and they would sit there and wait until they were either arrested or were served. CORE was the main group responsible, and the goal was to disrupt service and other customers. -
Freedom Rides
The move to desegregate buses, both white people and black people would take the bus from the north, sitting together, into the south, where it would most likely end in violence from southerners who did not want to segregate their buses. -
Integration of Ole Miss
James Meredith wanted to go to a good college, but they had to send in Federal marshals to protect him from the violence of his classmates and others who were opposed to desegregation. -
Birmingham Marches
The Birmingham Marches were a series of sit ins or marches in City hall and boybotts on downtown merchants to protest segregation laws in the city. These peaceful protests were met with violence as high pressure fire hoses and dogs were used against the protesters. -
Assassination of Medgar Evers
Medgar Evers was the secretary for NAACP in Mississippi, he was shot in the back coming home from work, his two children witnessed the assassination. 30 years later the assassinator was brought to trial and convicted. -
Freedom Summer/ Civil Rights worker Murders
Freedom Summer was a voter registration drive organized by CORE aimed at getting more Blacks to register to vote in Mississippi. 3 Civil Rights workers dissapeared, 2 whites and a black, and murder was assumed. Word spread throughout the country, helping to pass the Civil Rights bill in congress. -
March on Washington
This was where the "I Have a Dream" Speech by Martin Luther King Jr. was given. After the march, Kennedy's assassination did more for the movement, and Lindon Johnson became the new President, moving the Civil rights Act through congress by saying it was what Kennedy would have wanted. -
16th Street Church Bombings
A church on 16th street in Birmingham was bombed, killing 4 girls aged 12-14 and wounding 11 other children. This inspired protests and other things, 30 years later, the bomber was brought to trial, the main witness against him being his daughter who had heard him brag about the bombings. -
Passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964
This Act made discrimination in public places illegal based on race, creed, color, and gender, the 14th ammendment. -
Selma Marches
Martin Luther King Junior was very involved in this black registration. they all walked a lot, and later the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was passed. This was the last great march of the Civil Rights Movement -
Passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965
This act banned prerequisites for voters, and it allowed the Federal Government to oversee voting in Southern States, making registering to vote much easier for Black citizens.
