Civil Rights Movement Chyanne Hamlin

Brown v. Board of Education

May 17, 1954

1. Plessy v. Fergueson
2. Linda Brown wanted to go to the public school near her house and get a better education. So she went to school and started riots.
3. Linda Brown was allowed to go to school

Rosa Parks

Dec 1, 1955

1. Rosa Parks refused to give her seat to a white man who got on the bus and was then arrested for not abiding by segregation
2. It sparked an uprising and gave people hope and the will to fight.

Montgomery Bus Boycott

Dec 5, 1955

African American refused to ride buses when they continued to be segregated.

Civil Rights Act of 1957

Aug 29, 1957

1. Congress
2. The Law stated that it was illegal to try and take away blacks voting rights.

Little Rock, Kansas

Sep 24, 1957

1. President Eisenhower sends federal troops to enforce desegregation In Little Rock, Kansas because nine black students want to attend a nicer school and the only one is all white. The governor tries to force them out. 2.They had military personal with them at all times in school and drove them to school with big guns.

Attack of The Freedom Riders

May 14, 1961

1. They rode buses down to the deep south to protest segregation 2.CORE 3.No, all races joined but the majority was black

James Meredith Enrolls at Ole Miss

Sep 30, 1962

1. Riots of radical racists broke out against him attending the university. 2.They did little. JFK argued with the governor of Mississippi

Birmingham Police

Apr 3, 1963

The police of Birmingham Alabama attacked black children with fire hoses and dogs.

Medgar Evers Assassinated

Jun 12, 1963

1. An African American civil rights activist who worked against the university of Mississippi
2. He was shot in the back walking up to his house while his two small children could only watch in terror.

The March On Washington

Aug 28, 1963

1. Jobs and Freedom
2. I Have a Dream

Virgil Lamar Ware Murdered

Sep 15, 1963

A young boy in Birmingham Alabama was murdered by two whites for him being black.

Poll tax outlawed

Jan 23, 1964

Poll Tax was outlawed on federal elections so that African Americans could afford to vote.

Civil Rights Act of 1964

Jul 2, 1964

1. Congress
2. Outlawed Discrimination

Viola Gregg Liuzzo Kills Klansmen

Mar 25, 1965

She was assassinated in Selma by a Klansman for helping people in the march and being a civil rights activist.

March on Selma

Mar 25, 1965

1. Selma was very racist and the government wasn't enforcing the Civil rights Act
2. Violent racist white. They were even Beaten.
3. Raised awareness and showed the people what was going on

Thurgood Marshall

Sep 2, 1967

1. He was a civil rights activist
2. He was the first black justice. That pretty important.

Martin Luther King jr. Assasintaion

Apr 4, 1968

1. He was shot in his motel in Memphis TN 2.Everyone looked up to him as a very important leader. He gave people hope.