CIVIL RIGHTS TIMELINE

JACKIE ROBINSON PLAYS BALL

• 1947
• Hank Greenberg Peewee Reese, they stood up for him against discrimination from other teammates

BROWN VS. BOARD OF EDUCATION

• May 17, 1954
• Stated that "separate educational facilities are inherently unequal" and declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional
• Segregation of schools is now illegal

FORMATION OF CORE

• (Congress of Racial Equality)
• March 1942
• James L. Farmer Jr., George Houser, James R. Robinson, Samuel E Riley, Bernice Fisher, Homer Jack, and Joe Guinness
• U.S. Civil Rights organization that played a pivotal role for African Americans in the Civil Rights Movement
• played an important role in the Civil Rights Movement, still existent today

MURDER OF EMMETT TILL

• August 28, 1955
• Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam
• Till cat called a women in a store and later that night two men came and took him. They beat him, gouged his eye out, shot him in the head, and tied him to a 70 pound cotton gin fan with barbed wire.
• Turning point in the Civil Rights Movement

ADMISSION OF JAMES MEREDITH

• 1962
• James Meredith
• First African American student admitted to the segregated University of Mississippi
• He also planned a sole 220 mile March against Fear