Fences Timeline by Susan Chung Fontaine https://padlet.com/susanchungfontaine/y5djx7pv9b5vby65 Made with good vibes en-us 2020-10-12 18:08:06 UTC 2025-12-05 06:44:22 UTC hello@padlet.com 1904 Fences character Troy Maxson is born susanchungfontaine https://padlet.com/susanchungfontaine/y5djx7pv9b5vby65/wish/822489254 2020-10-12 18:08:36 UTC https://padlet.com/susanchungfontaine/y5djx7pv9b5vby65/wish/822489254 1926 Satchel Page begins his professional career in the Negro League susanchungfontaine https://padlet.com/susanchungfontaine/y5djx7pv9b5vby65/wish/822490831 2020-10-12 18:09:07 UTC https://padlet.com/susanchungfontaine/y5djx7pv9b5vby65/wish/822490831 1939-1945 World War II susanchungfontaine https://padlet.com/susanchungfontaine/y5djx7pv9b5vby65/wish/822492688 2020-10-12 18:09:42 UTC https://padlet.com/susanchungfontaine/y5djx7pv9b5vby65/wish/822492688 1947 Jackie Robinson becomes the first African American player in the Major Leagues susanchungfontaine https://padlet.com/susanchungfontaine/y5djx7pv9b5vby65/wish/822493231 2020-10-12 18:09:54 UTC https://padlet.com/susanchungfontaine/y5djx7pv9b5vby65/wish/822493231 1948 Satchel Paige is brought into the major leagues; he was the oldest rookie ever to play Major League baseball. Paige was in his late 40s susanchungfontaine https://padlet.com/susanchungfontaine/y5djx7pv9b5vby65/wish/822494008 2020-10-12 18:10:06 UTC https://padlet.com/susanchungfontaine/y5djx7pv9b5vby65/wish/822494008 1951 Plessy v. Ferguson overturned by Supreme Court The state of Louisiana enacted a law that required separate railway cars for blacks and whites. In 1892, Homer Adolph Plessy, who was seven-eighths Caucasian, took a seat in a "whites only" car of a Louisiana train. He refused to move to the car reserved for blacks and was arrested. susanchungfontaine https://padlet.com/susanchungfontaine/y5djx7pv9b5vby65/wish/822494799 2020-10-12 18:10:22 UTC https://padlet.com/susanchungfontaine/y5djx7pv9b5vby65/wish/822494799 1954 Brown v. Board of Education; Supreme Court declares racial segregation in schools unconstitutional susanchungfontaine https://padlet.com/susanchungfontaine/y5djx7pv9b5vby65/wish/822495920 2020-10-12 18:10:46 UTC https://padlet.com/susanchungfontaine/y5djx7pv9b5vby65/wish/822495920 1955 December 1: Rosa Parks is arrested. susanchungfontaine https://padlet.com/susanchungfontaine/y5djx7pv9b5vby65/wish/822496689 2020-10-12 18:11:02 UTC https://padlet.com/susanchungfontaine/y5djx7pv9b5vby65/wish/822496689 1957 First Civil Rights Act since Reconstruction era desegregates voting. The year in which Fences is set susanchungfontaine https://padlet.com/susanchungfontaine/y5djx7pv9b5vby65/wish/822497464 2020-10-12 18:11:18 UTC https://padlet.com/susanchungfontaine/y5djx7pv9b5vby65/wish/822497464 1959 Sit-ins begin as form of civil disobedience susanchungfontaine https://padlet.com/susanchungfontaine/y5djx7pv9b5vby65/wish/822499494 2020-10-12 18:11:59 UTC https://padlet.com/susanchungfontaine/y5djx7pv9b5vby65/wish/822499494 1963 March on Washington susanchungfontaine https://padlet.com/susanchungfontaine/y5djx7pv9b5vby65/wish/822500679 2020-10-12 18:12:23 UTC https://padlet.com/susanchungfontaine/y5djx7pv9b5vby65/wish/822500679 1964 Civil Rights Act passed; it establishes Equal Employment Opportunity Commission susanchungfontaine https://padlet.com/susanchungfontaine/y5djx7pv9b5vby65/wish/822501157 2020-10-12 18:12:33 UTC https://padlet.com/susanchungfontaine/y5djx7pv9b5vby65/wish/822501157 1965 Fences character Troy Maxon dies susanchungfontaine https://padlet.com/susanchungfontaine/y5djx7pv9b5vby65/wish/822501666 2020-10-12 18:12:43 UTC https://padlet.com/susanchungfontaine/y5djx7pv9b5vby65/wish/822501666