In 1947, Branch Rickey of the New York Dodgers made history by signing Jackie Robinson to the Dodgers, the first African American major league baseball player. Jackie made a huge step for himself but also for all African Americans in the nation. A few years later, in 1954, the Supreme Court settled a case called Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas where they reversed Plessy vs. Ferguson stating that segregation was constitutional as long as …showed first 75 words of 596 total…

…showed last 75 words of 596 total…rule of no violence, their efforts earned respect from whites and blacks all over the country and the world. The whites also could not fight back at them without tainting their image. The whites appeared as heartless aggressors since their prey was so passive. It made the African Americans seem higher in class than the whites. The African Americans’ tactics angered many, but nothing could be done except to change the laws and enact them.