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Emmett Till Murdered
While visiting family in Mississippi, is kidnapped and killed by 2 men because he had talked to a while women. -
Rosa Parks Arrested
Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat at the front of the "colored section" of a bus to a white passenger. later resulting in boycotting the bus system. -
Little Rock Nine
Formerly all-white Central High School learns that integration is easier said than done. Nine black students are blocked from entering the school on the orders of Governor Orval Faubus. President Eisenhower sends federal troops and the National Guard to intervene on behalf of the students, who become known as the "Little Rock Nine." -
MLK's Famous " I Have a Dream" speech
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James Meredith
James Meredith becomes the first black student to enroll at the University of Mississippi. -
Medgar Evers Murdered
Mississippi's NAACP field secretary, 37-year-old Medgar Evers, is murdered outside his home. Byron De La Beckwith is tried twice in 1964, both trials resulting in hung juries. Thirty years later he is convicted for murdering Evers. -
Three Civil Right Workers MIssing
James E. Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner, had been working to register black voters in Mississippi, and, on June 21, had gone to investigate the burning of a black church. They were arrested by the police on speeding charges, incarcerated for several hours, and then released after dark into the hands of the Ku Klux Klan, who murdered them. Later found under a dam. -
Malcom X Shot
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Selma-to-Montgomery March
On "Bloody Sunday," March 7, 1965, some 600 civil rights marchers headed east out of Selma on U.S. Route 80. They got only as far as the Edmund Pettus Bridge six blocks away, where state and local lawmen attacked them with billy clubs and tear gas and drove them back into Selma. -
MLK is Shot
Martin Luther King is shot as he stands on the balcony outside his hotel room.
