1964 : President Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act prohibiting discrimination anywhere = the Jim Crow laws were abolished [July] 1964 : The Freedom Summer: a massive campaign to register black voters in Mississippi 1619 : --------- Slavery 1957 : 9 African American students faced violence when they tried to enter their school in Little Rock, Arkansas 1964 : Martin Luther King received the Nobel Peace Prize [December] 1863 : Lincoln signs the Emancipation Declaration 1870 : The 15th Amendment granted blacks the right to vote 1968 : Martin Luther King was assassinated 1947 : Jackie Robinson became 1st African American to play major league baseball 1954 : The Supreme Court, in the case “Brown v. Board of Education”, declared segregation in public schools unconstitutional 1861-1865 : Civil war 1955 : Emmet Till, a young African American was murdered [August] 2008 : B. Obama became the first African American 1955 : Rosa Parks refused to give her seat to a white man [December] 1963 : President J.F. Kennedy proclaimed a law prohibiting discrimination in employment 1962 : James Meredith became the first African American to enter university. J. F. Kennedy sent 5000 federal troops to protect him 1965 : Bloody Sunday: police attacked peaceful demonstrators in Alabama [March] 1909 : The NAACP was founded 1963 : Martin Luther King’s “I have a dream” speech 1960 : The SNCC was founded [March] 1956 : Martin Luther King’s house was bombed 1965 : Malcolm X was assassinated [February] 1896 : The Supreme Court, in the case “Plessy v. Ferguson” allows segregation 1963 : Birmingham Church Bombing [August] 1919 : The Chicago Race Riot 1965 : Selma to Montgomery March 1905 : The Niagara Movement was founded 1961 : Freedom Rides