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School Segregation Outlawed
Supreme court outlaws school segregation in Brown v. Board of Education -
Brown V. Board of Education
The court case that allowed separate but equal facilities was called Plessy v. Ferguson
Linda Brown not being able to attend a school five blocks from her home because she was black was what started the Brown V. Board of Education case.
The result of the case was, it created laws ending segregation in schools. -
The rev. George Lee
killed for leading voter-registration drive
Belzoni,Mississippi -
Lamar Smith
Murdered for organizing black voters
Brockhaven,Mississippi -
Emmett Louis Till
Murdered for speaking to a white woman
Money, Mississippi -
John Earl Reese
Slain by nightriders opposed to school improvements
Mayflower, Texas -
Rosa Parks Arrested
Rosa Parks boarded a bus in Montgomery and sat near the middle.When the bus was full and a white man walked on and asked for her seat she refused She was then arrested for violating the Jim Crow Laws. -
Rosa Parks
arrested for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white man
Mongomery, Alabama -
Montgonery bus boycott
boycott begins -
Segregated Seats on Buses Banned
Supreme Court bans segregated seating on Montgomery buses -
Willie Edwards Jr.
Killed by klansmen
Montgomery, Alabama -
Civil Rights Act
Congress passes first Civil Rights Act since reconstruction -
Civil Rights Act of 1957
Dwight D. Eisenhower signed this act on September 9, 1957.This act gave the everyone the right to vote. -
President Eisenhower
orders federal troops to enforce school disegregation in Little Rock, Arkansas -
Little Rock
A group of nine black kids were invited to a school where they were beat up by whites when they entered the doors. Eisenhower sent troops to supervise the school doors. -
Mack Charles Parker
Taken from jail and lynched
Poplarville, Mississippi -
"Whites Only"
Black students stage sit in a "whites only" lunch counter in greensboro, North Carolina -
Bus terminals
Supreme Court outlaws segregation in bus terminals -
Attack of the Freedom Riders
Freedom Riders rode buses through the souoth to protest against segregation The congress of racial equality helped organize this. Whites joined too. -
Freedom Riders
Freedom Riders attacked in Alabama while testing compliance with bus desegregation laws -
Herbert Lee
Voter registration worker killed by white legislator
Liberty, Mississippi -
Voter Registration
Civil Rights groups join forces to launch voter registration drive -
Cpl. Roman Ducjsworth Jr.
Taken from bus and killed by police
Taylorsville, Mississippi -
James Meredith
riots erupt when James Meredith, a black student enrolls at Ole Miss -
Paul Gulmard
French reporter killed during Ole Miss riot
Oxford, Mississippi -
James Meredith Enrolls At Ole Miss
He was shot just after he enrolled at the school. The federal Governement enforeced laws to prevent this. -
William Lewis Moore
Slain during one man march against segregation
Attalla, Alabama -
Birmingham Police
attack marching children with dogs and fire hoses -
Alabama Governor
George Wallace stands in a schoolhouse door to stop university segregation -
Medgar Evers Assassinated
He was a civil rights activist who was involved in overturn of the segregation at Mississippi University. He was shot to death in his own drive way by Bryon De La Beckwith. -
Medgar Evers
Civil Rights leader assassinated
Jackson, Mississippi -
March on washington
people marched for jobs and freedom in the nation's capital.Martin Luther King Jr.'s speech was delivered here. -
March on Washington
250,00 Americans march on Washington for Civil Rights -
Addie Mae Collins, Denise Mcnair, Caroline Robertston, Cynthia Wesley
schoolgirls killed in bombing of 16th Street Baptists Church
Birmingham, Alabama -
Virgil Lamar Ware
Youth Killed during wave of racist violence
Birmingham, Alabama -
Outlaw of Poll tax
poll tax outlawed in federal elections -
Louis Allen
Witnesss to murder of civil rights worker assasinated
Liberty, Mississippi -
The Rev. Bruce Klunder
killed protesting construction of segregated school
Cleveland, Ohio -
Henry Hezekiah Dee & Charles Eddie Moore
killed by klansmen
Meadville, Mississippi -
Freedom Summer
brings 1,000 young civil rights volunteers to Mississippi -
James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, Michael Schwerner
civil rights workers abducted and slain by klansmen
Philadelphia, Mississippi -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Lyndon Johnson singed this act. It ended discrimination in public places. -
President Johnson
signs Civil Rights Act of 1964 -
LT.Col. Lemuel Penn
Killed by klansmen while driving north
Colbert, Georgia -
Jimmie Lee Jackson
Civil Rights marcher killed by state trooper
Marian, Alabama -
March on selma
They marched for civil rights. They were attacked after six blocks. -
State Troopers Beat Back
marchers at Edmund Pettus Bridge
Selma, Alabama -
The Rev. James Reeb
March volunteer beaten to death
Selma, Alabama -
Voting Rights March
thousads complete the Selma to Montgomery Voting Rights March -
Viola Gregg Liuzzo
Killed by klansmen while transporting marchers
Selma Highway, Alabama -
Oneal Moore
Black deputy killed by nightriders
Varnado, Louisiana -
Voting Rights Act
Congress passes Voting Rights Act of 1965 -
Willie Brewster
killed by nightriders
Anniston, Alabama -
Jonathan Daniels
Seminary student killed by deputy
Hayneville, Alabama -
Samuel Younge Jr.
Student civil rights activist killed in dispute
Tuskegee, Alabam -
Vernon Dahmer
Black community leader killed in klan bombing
Hattiesburg, Mississippi -
Ben Chester White
killed by klansmen
Natchez, Mississippi -
Clearence Triggs
Slain by nightriders
Louisiana -
Wharlest Jackson
Civil Rights leader killed after promotion to 'white' job
Natchez, Mississippi -
Benjamin Brown
Civil Rights worker killed when police fired on protesters
Jackson, Mississippi -
Thurgood Marshall first black surpreme court justice
He was part of the NAACP. He was the first black. -
Thurgood Marshall
sworn in as first black supreme court justice -
Sameul Hammond Jr, Delano Middleton, Henry Smith
students killed when highway patrolmen fire on protesters
Orangeburg, South Carolina -
The Assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
He was asssassinated at a motel at the age of 39. He was rushred to the hospital but passsed away soon after. He changed the world by making it a more equal place. -
The rev, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Assassinated
Memphis, Tennessee
