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Brown v. Board of Education
Supreme Court outlaws school segregation. The court case that allowed separate but equal facilities was Plessy v. Ferguson. The Brown v. Board case started in Topeka, Kansas when a child was turned down to go to a white school. Brown stated segregated schools are not equal and never will be. So brown went against the board of education to proove he was right. The case ended in the court declaring the law of sepreate schools for black and whites. -
Rev. George Lee: killed
killed for leading voter- registration drive -
Lamar Smith
Murdered for organizing black voters in Brookhaven, Mississippi. -
Emmet Louis Till
Murdered for speaking to a white women in Money, Mississippi. -
John Earl Reese
Killed by nightriders opposed to school improvments in Mayflower, Texas. -
Rosa Parks arreseted
Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama. She ended up being aressted and going to jail but changed the world by standing up for herself. -
Montgomery bus
bycott begins -
Sumprere Court bans segregation
The Sumpreme Court bans segregated seating on Montgomery buses. -
Willie Edwards Jr; killed
He was killed by klansmen in Montgomery, Alabama -
Civil Rights act of 1957
president Eisenhower passed this law. The law signaled a growing federal commitment to the civil rights. -
President Eisenhower orders troops
A group of black students tried to desegregate a white high school in Little Rock, Arkansas. As they tried to enter guards blocked the way that were sent by government. Eisenhower then sent federal troops to make sure that the kids made it in safely. To protect the students the government desegregated schools. -
Mack Charles Parker: jail
Mack was taken from jail and lynched in Poplarwille, Mississippi. -
Black student: stage-in
Blacks students stage sit-in at "whites only" lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina. -
Supreme Court: segregation
Sumpreme Court outlaws segregation in bus terminals. -
Freedom Riders
A group of 13 Affrican Americans and white civil rights activists, got on a bus and traveled through America to protest against segregation. The congress of Racial Equality (CORE) helped organize the Feedom Riders. -
Herbert Lee
Voter regrisgation worker killed by white legislator in Liberty, Mississippi. -
Civil right groups join forces.
Civil Right groups join forces to launch voter registration drive. -
CPL. Roman, Ducksworth Jr.
Roman was taken from a bus and killed by police in Taylorsville, Mississippi. -
Riots erupt
Riots erupt when James Meredith, a black student, enrolls at Ole Miss. The government got involved by desegregating the schools. -
Paul Guihard: killed
French reporters killed during Ole Miss riot in Oxford, Mississippi. -
William Lewis Moore: killed
He was killed during a one-man march against segregation in Attalla, Alabama -
Birmingham police: attacked
They attack marching children with dogs and fire hoses. -
Governor George Wallace
He standsin schoolhouse door to stop university integration. -
Medgar Evers
Evers was a Civil Rights leader assassinated in Jackson, Mississippi. He was working on getting evidence for the Emmitt Till case, which brought much attention to African Americans. He was later killed by Byron De la Beckwith. -
Americans: marched
250,000 Americans march on Washington for civil rights. The "I Have a Dream" speech was delivered on that march. -
school girls: killed
Addie Mae Collins, Denise McNair, Carole Robertson, and Cynthia Wesley were killed in a bombing of sixteenth street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alambama. -
Virgil Lamar Ware: killed
Youth killed during wave of racist violence in Birmingham, Alabama. -
Poll tax: outlawed
Poll tax outlawed in federal elections. -
Louis Allen; murder witness
Louis Allen was a witness to murder of Civil Rights worjer assassinated in Liberty, Mississippi. -
Rev. Bruce Klunder: killed
Bruce was killed when protesting construction of segregated schools in Cleveland, Ohio. -
Henry Hezekiah Dee and Charles Eddie Moore.
Both Henry and Charles were killed by Klansmen in Meadville, Mississippi. -
Freedom summer
Freedom summer brings 1,000 young civil rights volunteers to Mississippi. -
Civil rights workers: abducted
Civil rights worker, James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Micheal Schwerner were abducted and killed by Klansmen in Philadelphia, Mississippi -
president Johnson: Civil Rights
President Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964. This law ended segregation in public places and banned employment discrimination. -
Lt. Col Lemuel Penn: killed
He was killed by Klansmen while driving north in Colbert, Georgia. -
Jimmie Lee Jackson: killed
Jimmie a Civil rights marcher was killed by a state trooper in Marion, Alabama. -
State troopers beat back Marchers.
State troopers beat back marchers at Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama. -
March to Selma
Rev. James Reeb a march volunteer was beaten to death in Selma, Alabama. The march was organized for voting rights. At one point they faced a blockade of state troopers and lawmen telling them to stop, but they didnt. The result of the march was President Johnson signing the Voting rights act of 1965. -
Voting rights march
Thousands complete the Selma to Montgomery Voting Rights March. -
Viola Gregg Liuzzo: killed
Viola was killed by Klansmen while transpoting marchers on Selma Highway, Alabama. -
Oneal Moore
Oneal was a black deputy who was killed by nightriders in Varnado, Louisiana -
Congress passes voting rights act
Congress passes voting rights act of 1965. -
Willie Brewster: killed
Willie Brewster was killed by nightriders in Anniston, Alabama. -
Jonathan Daniels: killed
Jonathan Daniels a seminary student was killed by deputy in Hayneville, Alabama. -
Samuel Younge JR.: killed
Samuel a student civil rights activist was killed in disputein Taskegee, Alabama. -
Veron Dahmer: killed
Veron Dahmer a black community leader was killed in a klan bombing in Mattiesburg, Mississippi. -
Clarence Triggs: killed
Clarence Triggs was killed by nightriders in Bogalusa, Louisiana. -
Ben Chester White: killed
Ben was killed by klansmen in Natchez, Mississippi. -
Wharlest Jackson: killed.
Wharlest Jackson a civil rights leader was killed after promotion to 'white' job in Natchez, Mississippi. -
Benjamin Brown: killed
Benjamin was a civil rights worker who was killed when police fired on protestors in Jackson, Mississippi. -
Thurgood Marshall
Thurgood Marshall was the first african-american justice. He studued law at a young age and in 1954 he won the Brown v. Board case. This was monumental because it ended racial segregation in public schools. -
Samuel Hammong JR, Delano Middleton, Henry Smith: killed
Students killed when highway patrolmen fire on protesters in Orangeberg, South Carolina. -
Rev, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.: assassinated
Marting Luther King was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee. As he was preparing to leave for a dinner he stepped on his balcony and was shot. This had such a big impact on people because he was a leader of the civil rights movement.
