Civil Rights

Brown v. Board of Education

May 17, 1954

1.Plessy v. Ferguson
2.Parents were mad that the Board of Education would'nt let in their black children to a nicer white school so, they went to court in hopes to reverse its policy of racial segregation.
3. Coart declared state laws establishing separate public school to be unconstitutional

Rev.George Lee killed

May 7, 1955

The Rev. George Lee killed for leading voter-registration drive Beizoni, Mississippi.

Lamar Smith Murdered

Aug 13, 1955

Murdered for organizing black voters
Brookhaven, Mississippi

Emmett Louis Till Murdered

Aug 28, 1955

Murdered for speaking to a white woman.
Money, Mississippi

John Earl Reese killed

Oct 22, 1955

Slain by nightriders opposed to school improvements
Mayflower, Texas

Rosa Parks arrested for refusing to give up her bus seat

Dec 1, 1955

1. Rosa Parks was a 42 year old African American who worked as a seamstress. After work she got on a Montgomery bus to go home. Rosa sat in the middle of the bus and was in the seat right behind the 10 reserved ones for whites. But when a white man came on and there were no seats left he asked Rosa and three other blacks to give up their seats for one white man. She refused. 2.Arrested and convicted of violating the laws of segregation

Bus boycott

Dec 5, 1955

Montgomery bus boycott begins

Banned segregated seats

Nov 13, 1956

Supreme court bans segregted seating on Montgomery buses

Willie Edwards Jr. killed

Jan 23, 1957

Killed by klansmen
Montgomery, Alabama

Civil rights act of1957

Aug 29, 1957

1. President Eisenhower sent it to congress who passed it
2. established a civil rights section, established a federal civil rights commition, and empowered federal prosecuters to obtain court injunctions against the inference with the right to vote.

Events at Little Rock, Arkanas

Sep 24, 1957

1.President Eisenhower orders federal troops to enforce school desegregation.
2. Sent in troops so the mobs of angry parents could not get to them

Mack Charles Parker

Apr 25, 1959

Mack Charles Parker was taken from jail and lynched.
Poplarville, Mississippi

Blacks sit in "white only" lunch counter

Feb 1, 1960

Black students stage sit-in at " whites only" lunch counter.
Greensboro, North Carolina

outlaw segragation in buses

Dec 5, 1960

Supreme court outlaws segregation in bus terminals

Attack of the freedom riders

May 14, 1961

1. They were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses to the south and ruled that segregated buses were unconstitutional.
2. Congress of racial equality (CORE)
3. Both white and black

Herbert Lee killed

Sep 25, 1961

Herbert Lee voter registration worker killed by white legislator.
Liberty, Mississippi

Civil rights groups

Apr 1, 1962

Civil rights groups join forces to launch voter regestration drive

Roman Ducksworth killed

Apr 9, 1962

CPL. Roman Ducksworth Jr. was taken from a bus and killed by police.
Tayforsville, Mississippi

James Meredith enrolls at Ole Miss

Sep 30, 1962

1. Chaos breifly broke out on campus with riots ending in two dead, hundreds wounded and many others arrested.
2. Kennedy had to send in some 31,000 National Gaurdsmen to enforce some order.

Paul Ginard killed

Sep 30, 1962

Paul Ginard a French reporter was killed during the Ole Miss riot.
Oxford, Mississippi

William Lewis Moore killed

Apr 23, 1963

William was slain during one-man march against segregation.
Attalla, Alabama

Police attack marching kids

May 3, 1963

Birmingham police attack children with dogs and fire hoses.

Alabama Governer George Wallace

Jun 11, 1963

Alabama Governer George Wallace stands in schoolhouse door so stop university integration.

Medgar Evers Assassinated

Jun 12, 1963

1. He was a NAACP field secretary and was a main target for those who opposed racial equality and desagragation.
   
2. Evers was shot in the back in this driveway of his own home in Jackson, Mississippi

March on Washington

Aug 28, 1963

1. It was pressuring JFK for jobs and freedom in the nations capital.
2. Martin Luthers " I have a Dream" speech

School girls killed

Sep 15, 1963

Addie Mae Collins, Denise Mcnair, Caroline Robertson, Cynthia Wesley. Schoolgirls killed in bombing of Sixteenth street baptist church.
Birmingham, Alabama

Virgil Lamar Ware killed

Sep 15, 1963

Virgil Lamar Ware youth killed during wave of racist violence.
Birmingham, Alabama

Poll tax

Jan 23, 1964

Poll tax outlawed in federal elections

Louis Allen killed

Jan 31, 1964

Witness to murder of civil rights worker assassinated.
Liberty, Mississippi

Rev. Bruce Klunder killed

Apr 7, 1964

Rev. Bruce Klunder killed protesting construction of segregated schoo.
Ceveland, Ohio

Henry Hezekeah Dee and Charles Eddie Moore killed

May 2, 1964

Henry Hezekeah Dee and Charles Eddie Moore killed by Klansmen.
Meadville, Mississippi

1,000 new civil rights volunteers

Jun 20, 1964

Freedom Summer brings 1,000 young civil rights volunteers to Mississippi.

Civil rights workers killed

Jun 21, 1964

James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, Michael Schwerner. Civil rights workers abducted and slain by klansmen.
Philadelphia, Mississippi

Civil rights act of 1964

Jul 2, 1964

1. President Johnson
2. Outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.

Lt.Col. Lemuel Penn killed

Jul 11, 1964

Lt.Col. Lemuel Penn killed by klansmen while driving north.
Colbert, Georgia

Jimmie Lee Jackson killed

Feb 26, 1965

Jimmie Lee Jackson civil rights marcher killed by state trooper.
Marion, Alabama

March to Selma

Mar 7, 1965

1. They were going to march to the capital of Montgomery
2. They were met with violent resistance by state and local authorities.
3. The voting Rights Act was passed later that year

Rev. James Reeb killed

Mar 11, 1965

Rev. James Reeb march volunteer beaten to death.
Selma, Alabama

Viola Gregg Liuzzo killed

Mar 25, 1965

Killed by klansmen wwhile transporting marchers.
Selma highway, Alabama

Voting right march

Mar 25, 1965

Thousands cmplete the Selma to Montgomery voting rights march.

Oneal Moore killed

Jun 2, 1965

Oneal Moore black deputy killed by nightriders.
Varnado, Louisians

Voting rights act of 1965

Jul 9, 1965

Congerss passes the Voting rights act of 1965.

Willie Brewster killed

Jul 18, 1965

Killed by nightriders.
Anniston, Alabama

Jonathan Daniels killed

Aug 20, 1965

Jonathan Daniels seminary student killed by deputy.
Hayneville, Alabama

Samuel Young Jr. killed

Jan 3, 1966

Student civil rights activist killed in dispute.
Tuskegee, Alabama

Veron Dahmer killed

Jan 10, 1966

Black community leader killed in klan bombing.
Hattieburg, Mississippi

Ben Chester White killed

Jun 10, 1966

Ben Chester White killed by klansmen.
Natchez, Mississippi

Clarence Triggs killed

Jul 30, 1966

Clarence Triggs slain by nightriders.
Begalusa, Louisiana

Wharlest Jackson killed

Feb 27, 1967

Civil rights leader killed after promotion to "white" job.
Natchez, Mississippi

Benjamin Brown killed

May 12, 1967

Civil rights worker killed when police fired on protesters.
Jackson, Mississippi

Thurgood Marshall first black Supreme Court Justice

Oct 2, 1967

1. Was a counsel member to the NAACP
2. They were staring to give black people "white" men jobs

Students killed

Feb 8, 1968

Samuel Hammond Jr., Delano Middleton, Henry Smith. Students killed when highway patrolmen fired on protesters.
Orangeburg, South Carolina

Assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Apr 4, 1968

1. King was standing on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel where a sniper shot him in the neck.
2. Because he was the leader of the civil rights movement and without him segregation may have never changed.