This document provides a timeline of important events related to the advancement of civil rights and racial integration in the United States from 1947 to 2014. It begins with Jackie Robinson breaking the color barrier in Major League Baseball in 1947 and ends with Arizona's governor vetoing a bill seen as enabling discrimination in 2014. Major events included the desegregation of the military in 1948, the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court ruling in 1954 declaring school segregation unconstitutional, the passage of the Civil Rights Act in 1964, and milestones for sports teams in New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.