Civil Rights Adam Szerlag

Brown vs. Board of Education

May 17, 1954

1. Plessy vs. Ferguson 2.Linda Brown was denied admission to her neighborhood because she was black.
2. They said segregation of public was unconstitutional and violated the equal protection clause of the fourteenth amendment.
   

Emmit Till

Aug 28, 1955

1. Money Mississippi
2. Black teenager Emmit Till was brutally murdered by two white men for talking to a white women.

Rosa Parks arrested for refusing to give up her bus seat

Dec 1, 1955

1.Rosa Parks was sitting at the front of the bus when a white man told her to get up. When she refused to move she got arrested.
2. The African Americans boycotted the bus system, and protested across the nation.

The Bus Boycott

Dec 5, 1955

1. Montgomery Alabama
2. The blacks boycotted against bus segregation by refusing to ride public transport buses.

Civil Rights Act of 1957

Aug 29, 1957

1. Congress
2. Designed to protect the right of African Americans to vote.

Events at Little Rock, Arkansas

Sep 24, 1957

1. Nine Black teenagers tried to enter Central High School but were denied access by the National Guard and an angry white mob.
2. President Eisenhower later sent in one thousand troops from the 101st Airborne Division.

Attack of the Freedom Riders

May 14, 1961

1.Traveled into the south on buses to draw attention to the segregatd bus system.
2.CORE
3. Whites also joined the freedom riders.

James Meredith enrolls at Ole Miss

Sep 30, 1962

1. Ross Barnett denied him access.
2. JFK dispatched 500 federal marshals to escort Meredith into the campus.

French Reporter Killed in Ole Miss Riot

Sep 30, 1962

1. Oxford, Mississippi
2. During the Riot at Ole Miss regarding James Meredith attending the university. An innocent reporter (Paul Guihard) was shot and killed while reporting at the scene.

Medgar Evers Assassinated

Jun 12, 1963

1. Medgar Evers was a African American Civil Rights activists.
2. In his driveway outside his house Medgar was shot in the back by White supremacist Byron Beckwith.

The March on Washington

Aug 28, 1963

1. To build more public support for Civil Rights Movement.
2. Doctor Martin Luther King JR. "I have a dream."

Civil Rights Act of 1964

Jul 2, 1964

1. House of Representatives
2. It banned segregation in most public places.

Civil Rights Workers abducted and killed by Klansmen

Jul 2, 1964

1. Philadelphia, Mississippi
2. 3 Civil rights workers were abducted and killer by the KKK Klansmen on July 2, 1964

March to Selma

Mar 25, 1965

1. African American voting rights.
2. The people participating in the march were faced by angry white mobs that beat them and whipped them.
3. Overall the march to Selma did gain attention to black voting rights.

Congress Passes Voting Act of 1965

Jul 9, 1965

1. Washington D.C 2.Congress passed the voting act of 1965 allowing all U.S citizens to be able to participate in public elections.

Thurgood Marshall first black supreme court justice

Oct 2, 1967

1. He was originally a lawyer.
2. Because he was the first african american in history to hold a seat on the supreme court.

Assassination of Martin Luther King

Apr 4, 1968

1. Dr. Martin Luther King was staying at a Lorraine motel when, while standing at his balcony was struck by a bullet in the chest fired by James Ray.
2. Because he was the leader of the Civil Rights movement for African Americans.