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NAACP was founded.
A group of diverse people that would fight for civil rights. They would be filled with many different people and they would help with many movements. -
Jackie Robinson Joins the Brooklyn Dodgers.
Jackie Robinson would be the first African American to play Pro Baseball. He was harassed on and off the field but still made it where the game of baseball would not be segregated. -
Brown V.S. Board of Education
This case would establish racial segregation in public school. This went on for two years. -
Rosa Parks
Rosa parks, a black woman, didn't give up her seat in a public bus and would end up getting arrested but started a big movement. -
Desegregation of Central High in Little Rock Arkansas.
Their was nine African American kids and they enrolled at Central High school and the kids were segregated. -
Congress passed the Civil Rights Act 1957
It would be the first civil right law and would and would also help them to have the right to vote. -
Sit-in at Woolworth's lunch counter
In Greensboro NC, Black men asked for service and were denied it because of their color. They were asked to leave but remained in their seats. -
CORE "Freedom Ride"
It was the congress f racial equality through the deep south to test the supreme court. -
Dr King was thrown into jail.
He was thrown into jail after a peaceful protest. He was told he could not protest in Birmingham. -
March on Washington
It was a the biggest march. The I Have a Dream speech was spoke at this march. Many people were persuaded by this and was the biggest movement in the whole Civil Rights movement. -
Congress passed the Civil Rights Act
This act would outlaw the discrimination of race and stop segregation. This would help out all African Americans in some way. -
Bloody Sunday
It was when there was three marches in Alabama. -
Voting Right Act
This act made it where voting equal and everyone could vote. -
Martin Luther King Jr. Assassination.
Martin Luther King was assassinated in Tennessee but would go down as the person who made one of the biggest impacts in this movement.
