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Brown v. Board of Education
Supreme Court outlaws school segregation. Oliver Brown, in Topeka, a welder and world war II vetran was consolidated in the cases of 1952. -
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Civil Rights
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Belzoni, Mississippi
The Rev. George Lee killed for leading voter-registration drive -
Brookhaven, Mississippi
Lamar Smith murdered for organizing black voters -
Money, Mississippi
Emmett Louis Till murdered for speaking to a white woman -
Mayflower, Texas
John Earl Reese Slain by nightriders opposed to school improvements. -
Rosa Parks Arrest
Rosa Parks arrested for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white man. She had to go to prison all because she wouldn't let someone sit in her spot. -
Montgomery Boycott
Montgomery bus boycott begins cause of Rosa Parks -
Ban on Montgomery Buses
Supreme Court bans segregation seating on Montgomery buses. -
Willie Edwards Jr.
He was killed by Klansmen in Montgomery, Alabama. -
Civil Rights Act of 1957
Congress pass the first civil rights act since reconstruction. It empowered fedaral prosecuters to obtain court injunctions against interference with the right to vote. -
Little Rock Arkansas
President Eisenhower orders federal troops to enforce school desegregation in Arkansas. They had them send troops in to stop the bad things. -
Mack Charles Parker
He was taken from jail and lynched in Mississippi. -
Greensboro, North Carolina
Black students stage sit-in at "white only" lunch counter in Greensboro. -
Outlaw Segregation
The supreme court outlaws segregation in bus terminals. This was a good thing to do. -
Freedom Riders
They tested complience with bus desegregation laws. All were african american and this took place in Alabama. The freedom riders burnt a bus down. -
Herbert Lee
Voter registration worker killde by white legislator in Liberty, Mississippi. -
Joining Forces
Civil rights grouos join forces to launch voter registration drive on april first. -
CPL. Roman Ducksworth Jr.
He was taken from a bus and killed by police in Taylorsville, MIssissippi. -
James Meredith
A riot erupts when James Meredith, a black sstudent, enrolls at Ole Miss. Riots started from this and the government tried to help calm things down. -
Paul Guihard
French reporter was killed during the Ole Miss riot in Oxford, Mississippi. -
William Lewis Moore
Slain during one-man march against segregation Artalla, Alabama. -
Birmingham Cops
The police in Birmingham attack marching children with dogs and fire hoses. -
Bama Governor
George Wallace stands in a schoolhouse door at a univerity to stop segregation. -
Medgar Evers
Civil rights leader assassinated in Jackson, Mississippi. -
March on Civil Rights
250,000 americans march on Washington for civil rights. They marched there for one famous speach. This speach was "I have a dream" spoke by Martin Luther King Jr. on August 28th, 1963 -
Mae Collins
Two school girls were killed in bombing of Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. -
Virgil Lamar Ware
Youth killed during wavee of racist violence in Birmingham, Alabama. -
Poll Tax
Poll tax outlawed in federal elections. -
Louis Allen
Witness to murder of civil rights worker assasinated in Liberty, Mississippi. -
Rev. Bruce Klunder
Killed protesting construction of segregated school in Cleveland Ohio -
Henry Hezekiah Dee & Moore
They were killed by Klansmen in Meadville, Mississippi. -
Freedom Summer
Freedom Summer Brings 1,000 civil rights volunteers to Mississippi. -
Chaney, Goodman, Schwerner
Civil right workers were abducted and slain by Klansmen in Philadelphia, Mississippi. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
President Johnson signs the Civil right act of 1964. This act outlawed segregation based on race, religion, or sex. -
LT. Col. Lemuel Penn
He was killed by Klansmen while driving north in Colbert Georgia. -
Jimmie Lee Jackson
Civil rights marcher killed by state trooper in Marion, Alabama. -
Selma, Alabama
State troopers beat back marchers at Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama. -
March in Selma
March volunteer was brutally beaten to death in Selma Alabama. His name was Rev James Reeb. -
Montgomery Voting Rights
Thousands of people complete the Selma to Montgomery voting rights march. -
Viola Gregg Liuzzo
Killed by klansmen while transporting marchers on Selma Highway, Alabama -
Oneal Moore
Black deputy killed by nightriders in Varnado, Louisiana. -
Congress Passes
Congress passes voting rights act of 1965 -
Willie Brewster
Killed by nightriders in Anniston, Alabama -
Jonathan Daniels
Seminary student killed by deputy in Hayneville, Alabama. -
Sam Young Jr.
Student civil rights activist killed in dispute in Tuskegee, Alabama. -
Vernon Dahmer
Black community leader killed in Klan bombing in Hattiesberg, Mississippi. -
Ben Chester White
He was killed by klansmen in Natchez Mississippi. -
Clarence Triggs
He was slain by nightriders in Bagalusa, Louisiana. -
Wharlest Jackson
Civil rights leader killed after promotion to "white" job in Natchez< Mississippi. -
Ben Brown
Civil rights worker killed when police fired on protesters in Jackson MIssissippi. -
Supreme Court Justice
Thurgood Marshall sworm in as first black supreme court justice. -
Sam Hammond, Delano Middletown, Henry Smith.
Students killed when highway patrolmen fire on protestors in Orangeburg, South Carolina. -
Martin Luther King Assasination
Assasinated at his hotel in Memphis Tenessee. He was a big part of giving the African Americans rights so when he was killed that made them angry that one man who did so much was just gone and never got to see the outcome
