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Jackie Robison
Jackie Robinson born Jan. 31st, 1919 and died Oct. 24th 1972. He was the first African American in the MLB. He debuted April 15th, 1947. This was important because it began letting African Americans the ability to showcase their talent in professional sports.
The courage and grace with which Robinson handled the abuses inspired a generation of African Americans to question the unfair treatment of african american people and helped pave the way for the Civil Rights Movement. -
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CIVIL RIGHT MOVEMENT
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Brown v. Board of Education
Took plsce in Topeka, Kansas. This established all laws that segregated schools to be unconstitutional and called for the desegregation of all schools throughout all the nation. This is important because this was a big steo forward for african americans could go t school with whites. -
Montgomery bus boycott
Happened when African Americans refused to take the buses until they could sit anywhere they desired, and would be treated equally with the whites who caught the bus with them. The boycott ended in 1956. This was important in the rights of african americans because the buses gave were losing money and needed the customers which meant the African Americans had got what they wanted and where finally aloud to sit in the same spots as the rest of the white community. -
Little Rock Nine
The Little Rock Nine were a group of nine African American students that were enrolled in Little Rock Central High. The students were prevented from entering the racially segregated school by Arkansas Govenor Orval Faubus. On the students first day of school troops from the Arkansas National Guard would not let the nine students enter. This was important because it showed how segregated the schools and basically everything was in the South. -
JFK
By the 1960 presidential campaign, civil rights had emerged as a crucial issue. Just a few weeks before the election, Martin Luther King Jr., was arrested while leading a protest in Atlanta, Georgia. John Kennedy phoned the judge and helped secure his safe release.
Across the nation, more than 70 percent of African Americans voted for Kennedy, he was for desegregation and was eventually assainated. This is important because some people believed he was assainated because he was for desegregation. -
I have a dream
I Have a Dream" is a public speech delivered by American civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom on August 28, 1963, in which he calls for an end to racism in the United States and called for civil and economic rights. Delivered to over 250,000 civil rights supporters from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., the speech was a defining moment of the Civil Rights Movement. -
Civil rights act
The Civil Rights Act of 1964, which ended segregation in public places and banned employment discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex , is considered one of the crowning legislative achievements of the civil rights movement,it revived strong opposition from southern members of Congress it was then signed into law by Kennedy’s successor, Lyndon B. Johnson. aimed at bringing equality to African Americans, and led to other big events such as the Voting Rights Act of 1965. -
Voting right act
The voting act right was signed into law on August 6, 1965, by President Lyndon Johnson. In order to stop the discriminatory voting practices adopted in many southern states after the Civil War, including literacy tests as a prerequisite to voting it meant that it was illegal to impose restrictions on federal, state and local elections that were designed to deny the vote to blacks.
