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Supreme Court outlaws school segregation in Brown V. Board of Education
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-The court case that allowed seperate but equal facilities was Plessy v. ferguson.
- The event that started this even was in Topeka Kansas when parents were bad that the board of education wouldn't let in their African American kids. They when to court and the suit had the school districts reverse its policy of racial segregation.
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The REV. GEORGE LEE was killed for leading voter-registration frive in Belzoni Mississppi.
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Lamar, Smith is murdered for organinzing black voters in Brookhaven, Mississippi.
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Emmet Louis Till is murdered for speaking to a white woman in Money, Mississippi.
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John Earl Reese Slain by nightriders opposed to school improvements in Mayflower, Texas
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Rosa Parks is arrested for refusing to gie up her bus seat to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama.
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Rosa Parks boarded the Montgomery city bus to go home and sat in the middle of the bus, behind about 10 seats reserved for whites. Soon the bus had filled up and a white man entered the bus. The driver insisted that the four blacks sitting behind the white section get her seat. She was arrested and convicted of violating the laws of segregation.
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Montgomery bus boycott begins.
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Supreme court bans segregated seating on Montgomery buses.
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Willie Edward JR. is killed by Klansmen in Montgomery, Alabama.
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Congress passes the first civil rights act since reconstruction
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President Eisenhower signs the law and congress passed it. This law empowered federal prosecutors to obtain court injuctions against anything standing in the way with the right to vote
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President Eisenhower orders federal troops to enforece school desegregation in Little Rock, Arkansas
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Three years after the Brown. v. Board of Education 9 African American students were recruited by the President of the NAACP. They attempted to integregrate central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. The national guard came to prevent the black students from entering. A team of NAACP lawyers won a federal district court which allowed the students to enter the school. Eisenhower then ordered troops to protect the students who were shielded by federal troops and the national guard.
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Mack Charles Parker is taken from jail and lynched in Poplarville, Mississippi.
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Black students stage a sit-in at a "whites only" lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina
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Supreme Court outlaws segregation in bus terminals.
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Freedom Riders attacked in Alabama while testing compliance with bus desegregation laws
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Freedom riders held political protests against segregation by blacks and whites who would ride the bus together. The freedom riders were recruited by the congress of Racial Equality. They took a series of bus trips through the South. Along the way they recieved a lot of violence from white protestors but some drew attension to there cause
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Herbert Lee who is a voter registration worker is killed by a white legislator in Liberty, Mississippi.
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Civil rights groups join forces to launch a voter registration drive
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C.P.L Roman Ducksworth JR. is taken from a bus and is killed by police in Taylorsville Mississippi
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Riots erupt when James Meredith, a black students enrolls at Ole Miss.
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Paul Guihard who is a French reporter is killed during the Ole Miss riot in Oxford, Mississippi.
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The campus broke out in chaos. Riots started but ended with 2 dead. Many were wounded and some arrested. Soon after Kennedy's administration called out federal forces and the national guard came to enfore order
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William Lewis Moore is slain during one-man march against segregation in Attalla Alabama.
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Birmingham police attack marching children with dogs and fire hoses
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Alabama governor George Wallace stands in a schoolhouse door to stop university integration
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Medgar Evers was a civil rights leader who was assasinated in Jackson, Mississippi.
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Medgar was a civil rights activist and also a field secretary for the NAACP in Mississippi. He was shot while walking up to his house. The suspect was arrested but released. Over the years there was still suspion that the suspect was guilty but then 4 years later the case was reopened. The suspect was then found guilty.
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250,000 Americans marched on Washington for civil rights
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The purpose of the march was for jobs and freedom in the nations capital. The famous speech that was delivered was Martin Luther King's "I have a dream."
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Addie Mae Collins , Denise Mcnair, Carole Robertson, Cynthia Wesley were school girls who were killed in a bombing of Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama.
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Virgil Lamar Ware was a youth who was killed during a wave of racist violence in Birmingham, Alabama
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Poll tax outlawed in federal elections
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Louis Allen is a witness to murder of a civil rights worker assasinated in Liberty, Mississippi
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The REV. Bruce Klunder is killed protesting construction of segregated schools in Cleveland, Ohio
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Henry Hezekiah Dee and Charles Eddie Moore are killed by Klansmen in Meadville, Mississippi
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Freedom Summer brings 1,000 young civil rights volunteers to Mississippi.
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James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Scherner were all civil rights workers who were abducted and slain by Klansmen in Philadelphia, Mississippi
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President Johnson signs Civil Rights Act of 1964
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This act ended segregation in public places and banned emploment discrimination on race, religion. color or national orgin. This was signed into law by Vise. Pres, Lyndon B. Johnson
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LT. Col Lemuel Penn is killed by Klansmen while driving north in Corbert Georgia
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Jimmie Lee Jackson who was a civil rights marcher is killed by state trooper in Marion, Alabama.
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State troops beat black marchers at Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama.
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The march was organized because local African Americans were campaining for voting rights. The marchers were met with violent resistance by local and state authorities.Yet, the protestors reached there goal by walking around the clock for 3 days to reach Montgomery.
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The REV. James Reeb who was a march volunteer is beaten to death in Selam Alabama.
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Thousands complete the Selma to Montgomery Voting Right March.
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Viola Gregg Liuzzon is killed by Klansmen while transporting marchers on the Selma highway in Alabama
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Oneal Moore who was a black deputy is killed by nightriders in Varnado, Louisiana
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Congress passes Voting Rights Atc of 1965
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Willie Brewster was killed by nightriders in Anniston, Alabama
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Jonathan Daniels was a seminary student killed by deputy in Hayneville, Alabama
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Samuel Young Jr. was a student civil rights activist who was killed in dispute in Tuskege, Alabama
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Vernon Dahmer was a black community leader who was killed in a Klan bombing in Hattiesburg, Mississippi
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Vernon Dahmer was killed by Klansmen in Natchez, Mississippi.
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Clarence Triggs was slain by nightriders in Bogalusa, Louisiana
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Wharlest Jackson was a civil rights leader who was killed after promotion to a "white" jobin Natchez, Mississippi
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Benjamin Brown was a civil rights worker who was killed when polce fired on protestors in Jackson, Mississippi
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Thurgood Marshall sworn in as the 1st black Supreme Court justice
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Before becoming a supreme court justice Marshal worked to try and end racial discrimination. He was on the staff of the NAACp for many years. Marshall came by the court and agrued that segregatiting school children based on the race was against our constitution, and the Supreme Court, aggred. I think this was monumental because no matter what he fought to make sure all people were treated fairly.
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Samuel Hammond JR, Deland Middleton, Henry Smith, were students who were killed when highway patrolmen fired on protesters in Orangeburg, South Carolina
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The REV. DR. Martin Luther King JR. is assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee
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When Martin Luther KIng was assasinated. Riots sparked out in more than 100 cities. The whole nation mourned the death which helped speed up an equal housing bill. KIngs death had such a big impact because he was supporting something great. He wanted all people to feel equal and then he gets killed at such a young age. No one deserves that fate.
