Crc part iii 2

Civil Rights in the 60s by Darian and Marie-Sophie

By AIS Grade 5

  • Freedom riders oppose segregation

    Freedom riders oppose segregation
    Blacks and whites take buses to the south to protest bus station segragation. Many are greeted with riots and beatings.

  • James Meredith enrolls at the University of Mississipi

    James Meredith enrolls at the University of Mississipi
    5000 federal troops are sent by Pres. Kennedy to allow Meredith to register for classes. Riots result in 2 deaths and hundreds of injuries.

  • Desegregation drive in Birmingham

    Desegregation drive in Birmingham
    King and SCLC (Southern cristian leadership conference) oppose local laws that support segregation. Riots, fire-bombing, and police are used against protesters.

  • "Letter from Birmingham jail"

    "Letter from Birmingham jail"
    In response to white ministers who urge him to stop causing disturbances, king issues articulate statement of nonviolent resistance to wrongs of american society.

  • Gov. Wallace stops desegregation of the University of Alabama

    Gov. Wallace stops desegregation of the University of Alabama
    Standing in the schoolhouse door and promising segregation "today, tomorrow, and forever," Wallace is forced by Pres. Kennedy to allow blacks to enroll.

  • Medgar Evers murdered

    Medgar Evers murdered
    Head of Mississippi NAACP is shot outside outside his home on the same night that Pres. Kennedy adresses the nation on race, asking "Are we to say to the world... that this is a land of the free exept for Negroes."

  • March on washington

    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 Birmingham church

    Bombing of Birmingham church
    4 black girls are killed by bomb planted in church.

  • 24th Amendment passed

    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 whire supremacy views in attempt to attract black voters.

  • Civil rights act passed

    Civil rights act passed
    Overcoming Senate fillibuster, Congress passes law forbidding racial discrimination in many areas of life, including hotels, voting, employment, and schools.

  • Mississippi Summer Freedom Projekt

    Mississippi Summer Freedom Projekt
    Civil rights workers seek to register blacks to vote,3 are killed and many black homes and churches are burned. National outrage helps pass civil rights legislation.