1964-06 : The Jim Crow Laws were abolished 1964 : The Freedom Summer 1957 : Little Rock 1964-12 : Martin Luther Kings receveid the Nobel Peace Prize 1863 : Lincoln signs the Emancipation Declaration 1870 : The 15 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 : Brown vs Board of Education 1955-08 : Emmet Till, a young African American was murdered 2008 : Barack obama became the first African American president 1955-12 : Rosa Parks refused to give her seat to a white man 1963 : president J.F. Kennedy proclaimed a law prohibiting discrimination in employment 1962 : James Meredith beacame the first African American to enter university 1909 : The NAACP was founded 1965-03 : Bloody Sunday 1963 : Martin Luther King's "I have a dream" speech 1960-03 : The SNCC was founded 1956 : Martin Luther King's house was bombed 1965-02 : Malcolm X was assassinated 1896 : The Supreme Court,, in the case "Plessy vs ferguson" allows segregation
