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| 1919-72, American baseball player, the first African-American player in the modern major leagues, |
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| Brown v Board of Education of Topeka |
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| Landmark supreme court decision that overturned plessy v ferguson (1896) and abolished racial segregation in public schools. The court reasoned that "separate" was inherently "unequal" rejecting the foundation of the Jim Crow system of racial segregation in the South. This decision ws the first major step toward the legal end of racial descrimination and a major accomplishment of the Civil Rights Movement. |
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| After Brown v Board of Education of Topeka ordered segregation unconstitutional. Central high school in arkensaw agreed to segregate schools and had 9 african american kids join an all white school at arival they met an angry mob of students and parents, the governor sent the national guard to prevent them from joining the school but then, supreme court ordered them to remove national guard and let integration resume its course |
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| December 1, 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama, Parks refused to obey bus driver James Blake's order that she give up her seat to make room for a white passenger.sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott |
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| Protest, sparked by Rosa Parks's defiant refusal to move to the back of the bus, by black alabamians against segregated seating on city buses. the bus boycott lasted form Deecember 1 1955 untill december 26 1956 and became one of the doundational moments of the Civil Rights Movements. It led to the rise of Martin Luther King Jr., and ultimately to a Supreme court decision opposing segregated busing. |
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