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Brown v.s Board of education
Outlawed segragation of schools Plessy vs Ferguson allowed separate but equal facilities. A school board rep. son was denied into a white school. The result was that segragatio of school was unconstitutional. -
George Lee killed
He was killed for leading voter-registration drive in Belzoni Misississippi. -
Lamar smith Murdered
He orgamized black voters in Brookhaven, Mississippi -
John Earl Lee slain
He was killed by nightriders who opposed to school improvments -
Rosa Parks Aressted
She refused to give up her seat to a white man. So she was aressted. It started boycots. -
Montgomery boycott
Montgomery boycott began because of Rosa parks. She refused to give her seta up to a white person. -
No more segragated seating
Supreme court banned segragated setaing on montgomery buses -
KKK Strikes
Willie Edwards JR. was Killed by the KKK in Montgomery Alabama -
1st Civil Rights Act passed
It was the first one passed since reconsturction. eisenhower passed this law. Took action to pass civil rights -
Enforced Desegragation in Schools
Eisenhower ordered federal troops to enforce desegragation in Little Rock, Arkansas where blacks were enrolled at white school. -
Lynching
Mack Charles Parker was taken form jail and lynched in Mississippi -
Black Sit-in
The students staged the sit-in at a lunch counter in North Carolina -
Outlawed Segragation in bus terminals
The supreme court outlawed segragation in bus terminals -
Freedom Riders
They attacked in Alabama while testing the compliance with bus desegragation laws. They were supported by the copngress of racial equality. It was blacksa and whites -
Herbert Lee killed
A white voter killed the voter registration worker in Liberty, Mississippi. -
Voter Registration
Civil Rights groups join forces to launch voter registration drive -
Man taken from bus and killed
Police took CPL. Roman Ducksworth Jr. from a bus and killed him -
Riots
A black student enrolled at Ole Miss which started riots. There were riots so the gov. sent National Guard to restore order. -
The Riots kill
A french reporter was killed during the riots in Oxford Mississippi -
William Lewis Moore slain
He was killed in his one man march against segragation in Alabama -
Police attack kids
Birmingham police attck marching children with dogs and fire hoses -
Governor stops integration
Alabama governor George Wallace stands in schoolhouse door to stop university integration -
Leader assassinated
Civil rights leader Medgar Evers assassinated in Jackson, Mississippi -
March on Washington
250000 americans march at washington for civil rights. The famous i have a dream speech was delivered by Martin Luther KIng -
School bombing
Four School girls killed in bombing of sixteenth street baptist church in Birmingham Alabama -
Racist violence kills
Virgil Lamar Ware was killed by racists in Birminham Alabama -
No more poll tax
Poll tax is outlawed in federal elections -
Witness see's assassination
Louis Allen witnessed the mureder of civil rights worker in Liberty, Mississippi -
Protester killed
The Rev. Bruce Klunder killed while protesting construction of segragated schools in Cleveland Ohio -
KKK kills
Henry Hezekah Dee and Charles Eddie Moore killed by klansmen in Meadville, MIssissippi -
Civil Rights
Freedom Summer Brings 1000 young civil rights volenteers to Mississippi -
KKK abducts and kills workers
Civil rights workers were abducted and slain by the KKK in Philidelphia, Mississippi -
Civil Rights act signed
President Johnson sign the civil rights act of 1964. Blacks and Whites were now equal. -
KKK kill Penn
Lt. Col. Lemuel Penn killed by KKK while driving north in Georgia -
Civil Rights leader killed
Jimmie Lee Jackson was killed by state trooper in Marion, Alabama -
Troopers hold bridge
TRoopers beat back marchers at Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama -
Volenteer killed
The Rev. James Reeb a march volunteer beaten to death in Selma Alabama -
March complete
Thousands complete the march to Montgomery for voting rights. They got the right to vote -
KKK kill marchers
Viola Greggg LIuzzo killed by the KKK while transporting marchers across selma highway, Alabama -
Deputy killed by nightriders
Black deputy killed by nightriders in Lousiana -
Voting act passed
Congress passed the voting act of 1965. -
Nightriders kill again
Willie Brewster killed by nightriders -
Deputy Kills Student
Jonathan Daniels seminary student killed by deputy in Hayneville, Alabama -
Civil rights activist killed in despute
Samuel Younge Jr. Student civil rights activist killed in Tuskegee, Alabama -
KKK bombing
Black community leader killed in bombing in Mississippi -
KKK Kills again
Ben Chester White killed by the KKK in Natchez, Mississippi -
NIghriders Slay
Clarence Triggs slain by nightriders in Louisiana -
Civil Rights leader killed after promotion
Wharlest Jackson Civil rights leader killed after promotion to white job in Mississippi -
Police fire at protesters
Benjamin Brown civil rights worker was killed by police in Jackson, Mississippi -
First Black on court
Thurgood Marshall sworn in as first black Supreme Court Justice. He won brown vs board of education case. This was first black ever on court justice. -
Students killed by highway patrolmen.
Samuel Hammond Jr, Delano Middleton, Henr Smith all killed by highway patrolmen in Orangeburg, South Carolina -
King assassinated
The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King assassinated in Memphis Tennesse Martin had helped so much with civil rights everybody really liked him.He was killed on his balcony.
