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Jackie Robinson
Jack Roosevelt Robinson was born on January 31 1919 and died on October 24, 1972 was an American professional baseball second baseman who became the first African American to play in Major League Baseball MLB in the modern era. In 1942 he was finally drafted to a baseball team and assigned to a segregated Army cavalry unit in Fort Riley Kansas. Because he was the first African American to play baseball and other African Americans want to be like him so that's why other black men played baseball. -
Brown vs. Board of Education
Linda Brown's parents sued for her to attend the white school so she wouldn't have to walk through a dangerous neighborhood to get to the black school. The Supreme Court ruled: Separate was not equal, and she could attend the white school. This was important because it is the first time the court ruled against segregation. -
Emmett Till murder
In August of 1955 Mamie Till a mother from Chicago sent her fourteen year old son Emmett to visit relatives in Leflore County Mississippi. On August 24 Till and several friends traveled to nearby Money a small segregated town in the heart of Mississippi Delta where the youth reportedly whistled at a white woman when he entered Bryant Grocery and Meat Market. Till was murder by two guys then the two guys put his body in the river. His mother had an open casket to show that people are racist. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Local authorities in Montgomery Alabama arrested Rosa Parks a black seamstress when she refused to vacate her seat in the white section of a city bus on December 1, 1955. To protest Parks' arrest and the continued segregation of Montgomery's bus lines members of the city's black community formed the Montgomery Improvement Association on December 4, 1955, and launched a community wide boycott to compel the system's integration. It lasted 381 days. Martin Luther King Jr came and helped this. -
Temple Bombing Atlanta, Ga.
In the early hours of October 12, 1958, fifty sticks of dynamite exploded in a recessed entrance way at the Hebrew Benevolent Congregation Atlanta's oldest and most prominent synagogue more commonly known as the Temple the incident was but the most recent in a string of bombings throughout the nation affecting churches and synagogues associated with the Civil Rights movement. African American's weren't the only ones fighting for their right. -
Sit-ins: Atlanta, Ga.
In March 1960, students representing Atlanta's six historically black colleges organized a series of sit ins at area lunch counters to protest the city's legally sanctioned segregation. Local retailers subsequently agreed to negotiate with representatives from the recently formed student group Committee on Appeal for Human Rights COAHR but neither side evinced a willingness to compromise. -
Ole Miss Integration
On September 30, 1962, riots erupted on the campus of the University of Mississippi in Oxford where locals students and committed segregationists had gathered to protest the enrollment of James Meredith a black Air Force veteran attempting to integrate the all white school. Meredith graduated from Ole Mississippi and had 150 federal marshals get him into the school. -
John F. Kennedy's Assassination
On November 22, 1963 President John F. Kennedy was assassinated while traveling through Dallas Texas in a presidential motorcade shortly after the shooting Lee Harvey Oswald was apprehended and charged with the president's murder. -
Birmingham Bombing Sixteenth Street Baptist Church
The bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham Alabama was one of the deadliest acts of violence to take place during the Civil Rights movement and evoked outrage from around the world on the morning of September 15, 1963 as the congregation's children prepared for annual Youth Day celebrations a bomb exploded in the stairwell of Sixteenth Street Baptist Church killing four girls and injuring dozens of others in the assembly. Blanton was convicted in 2001 and Cherry in 2002 -
New York Race Riots
The New York Race Riots of 1964 were the first in a series of devastating race related riots that ripped through American cities between 1964 and 1965 and the riots began in Harlem New York following the shooting of fifteen year old James Powell by a white off duty police officer on July 18, 1964. -
Martin Luther King assassination
Martin Luther King was shot in Lorraine Motel in Memphis Tennessee on April 4, 1968. James Earl Ray was sentenced to 99 years in prison. It was a big deal because Martin Luther King Jr was a big deal when he got killed.
