Civil rights during the 60s by Jasmijn and Autumn

By AIS Grade 5

  • Freedom riders oppose segregation

    Blacks and lights take buses to the south to protest bus station segregation. Many are greeded with rights and beatings.

  • James Meredith enrolles at the university of mississippi

    5000 federal troopes are sent by pres. Kennedy to allow Meredith to regester for classes.Riots result in 2 dethes and hundreds of injuies.

  • Desegeregation drive in Bermingham

    King and SCLC (Southern Cristian Leadership Confrence) oppose locoal laws that support segregation. Riots, fire-bombing, and police are used against protesters.

  • Letter from Birmingham jail

    In responce to whites ministers who urge him to stop causing disturances, King issues articulates statement of nonviolent resistence to wrongs of American society.

  • Gov. Wallace stops desegregation of the University of Alabama

    Standing in the schoolhouse door and promising segregation "Today, tommorrow, and forever", Wallice is forced by pres. Kennedy to allow blacks to enroll.

  • Medgar Evers murdered

    Head of Mississippi NAACP is shot outside his home on the same night that pres. Kennedy addresses the nation on race, asking " Are we to say to the world... that this is a land of the free exsept for Negroes"

  • March on Washington

    More than 200,000 blacks and whites gather before Lincoln Memorial to hear speeches(including King's" I Have a Dream") and protest racial injustice.

  • Bombing of Birningham church

    4 black girls are killed by bomb planted in church

  • 24th Amendment passed

    Poll tax (wich had been used to prevent blacks from voting) outlawed. Black voter registration increases and candidates begin to turn away from whites supremacy views in attempt to attract black voters.

  • Civil rights act past

    Overcoming Senate filibuster, Congress passes law forbiding racial discrimination in many areas of life, including hotels, voting, employment, and schools.