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Brown v. Board of Education
In the Plessy v Ferguson court case allowed seperate but equal facilities for blacks and whites. In Topeka Kansas a young girl was denied admission into the local elementary school because she was black. Many similar cases were brought up as part of the Brown v Board of Education court case and made seperate but equal illegal because it violated the principles of equal protectin under law in the fourteenth amendment. -
REv. George Lee killed
The Rev. George Lee killed for leading voter-registration drive in Befzoni, Mississippi. -
Lamar Smith
Murdered for organizing black voters in Brookehaven, Mississippi. -
Emmet Louis Till
Murdered for speaking to a white women in Money, Mississippi. -
John Earl Reese
Slain by neighbors opposed to school inprovments in Matflower, Texas. -
Rosa Parks Arrested
In Mongomery Alabama Rosa parks was sitting on a bus. In that time blacks has to sit in the back of the bus and if a white person needed a seat they had to give up their own seat. Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on the bus when a white man needed it. She got arrested for this and was a large contibution for sparking the Montgomery boycott, where blacks boycotted and did not ride any bus. The boycott made bus drivers stop the segregation on buses. -
Bus Boycott
Sparked by Rosa Parks, the Montgomery bus boycott begins. -
Bus boycott
Supreme court in Montgomery Alabama bans segragated seating on buses. -
Willie Edwards Jr
Killed by Klansmen in Montgomery Alabama. -
Civil Rights Act of 1957
President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed this act into law. This new law stated that increased federal protction of African Americans and other minorities. The law also increased proction for blacks voting rights and the enforcement of cilvil rights laws. -
Little Rock Arkansas
On the first day of school at Central High, a white mob gathered in front of the school, and Governor Orval Faubus deployed the Arkansas National Guard to prevent the black students from entering. Eisenhower ordered troops from the Army’s 101st Airborne Division to protect the studentss and were shielded by federal troops and the Arkansas National Guard for the remainder of the school year -
Mack Charles Parker
Taken form jail and lynched in Poplarville, Mississippi. -
Sit-in
Black students stage a sit-in at a whites only lunch counter in Greersbero, North Carolina. -
Bus terminals
Supreme court outlaws segregation in bus termanals. -
Freedom Riders
Freedom riders attacked in Alabama while testing compliance withbus desegregation laws. The freedom riders were a group of not only balcks but whites too. They rode a bus into Mongomery to defy segregation laws like Jim crow laws. The Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) sponsored most of the subsequent Freedom Rides, but some were also organized by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). -
Herbert Lee
Votter registration worker killed by white legislator in Liberty, MIssissippi. -
Launch voter registration
Civil rights groups join forces to launch voter registration drive. -
Roman Ducksworth Jr.
Taken from bus and killed by police in Taylorsville, Mississippi. -
Riot in Oxford
Riots errupt when James Meredith, a black student, enrolls at Ole Miss. When James tried to enroll white peope rioted. Kennedy sent 31,000 National Guardsmen and other forces to enforce order. -
Paul Guihard
French reporters killed during riot at Ole Miss in Oxford, Mississippi. -
William Lewis Moore
Slain during one-mean march against segregation in Attalla, Alabama -
Birmingham
Police attack marching children with dogs and fire hoses in Birmingham. -
Alabama Govener
George Wallace, an Alabama govener, stands in schoolhouse door to stop university integration. -
Medgar Evers Assasination
Medgar Evers (1925-1963) was an African-American civil rights activist whose murder drew national attention. As early as 1955, Evers activism made him the most visible civil rights leader in the state of Missisippi. He was subject to numerous threats and was shot in his driveway in Jackson Mississippi. He died at the hospital soon after. -
March on Washington
250,000 Americans march on Washington for civil rights. It was a political rally known as the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom and was designed to shed light on the political and social challenges African Americans continued to face across the country. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech was delivered when everyone met in Washington. -
Schoolgirls killed
Addie Mae Collins, Denise Mcnair, and Cynthia Wesley kille din the bombing of Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. -
Virgil Lamar Ware
Youth killed during wave of racist violence in Birmingham, Alabama. -
Poll tax
Poll tax outlawed in federal elections. -
Louis Allen
Witness to murder of civil rights worker assassination in Liberty, Mississippi. -
The Rev. Bruce Klunder
Killed while prostesting contruction of segregated school in Clevland, Ohio. -
Henery Hezekiah Dee and Charles Eddie Moore
Killed by klansmen in Meadville, Mississippi. -
Freedom summer
Freedom summer brings 1000 young civil rights volunteers to Mississippi. -
James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner
Civil rights workers abducted and slain by klansmen Philadelphia, Mississippi. -
Johnson
President Johnson sihns Civil Rights Act of 1964. The law stated that outlawed segregation and disrimination against all African Americans. It gave blacks equal voting registration and terminated racial segregation in schools and the workplace. -
Lt. Col. Lemuel Penn
KIlled by klansmen while driving north in Colbert, Georgia -
Jimmie Lee Jackson
Civil rights marcher killed by state trooper in Marion, Alabama -
EDmund Pettus Bridge
State troopers beat back marchers at Edmund Pettus bridge in Selma, Alabama -
The Rev. James Reeb
March volunteer beaten to death at Selma, Alabama. -
selma march
Thousands complete the Selma to Montgomery Voting Rights March. The march was to help black voters in the South. That March, protesters attempting to march from Selma to the state capital of Montgomery were met with violent resistance by state and local authorities. It made the Voting Rights Act passed a year later. -
Viola Greeg Liuzzo
Killed by klansmen while transporting marchers in Selma Highway Alabama. -
Oneal Moore
Bklack deputy killed by nightriders in Varnado Louisiana. -
Voting Act of 1965
Congress passes Voting Rights Act of1 1965. -
Willie Brewster
Killed by nightriders in Anniston Alabama -
Jonathan Daniels
Seminary student killed by deputy in Hayneville Alabama. -
Samuel Younge Jr.
Student civil rights activist killed in dispute in Tuskegee Alabama. -
Vernon Dahmer
Black community leader killed in klan bombing in Hattiesburg Mississippi. -
Ben Chester White
Killed by klansmen in Natchez Mississippi. -
Clarence Triggs
Slain by nightriders in Bagalusa Louisiana. -
Wharlest Jackson
Civil rights leader killed after promotuon to 'white' job in Natchez Misssissippi. -
Benjamin Brown
Civil rights worker killed when police fired on protesters in Jackson Mississippi. -
Thurgood Marshall
Thurgood marshell sworn as first black Supreme Court Justice. Thurgood Marshall traveled throughout the United States, representing all clients whenever a dispute involved questions of racial justice. When he bacame Supreme Court Justice it was a monumental stride for African Americans because it showed that a black man could overcome discrimination and bacome a high ranking government official. -
Samuel Hammond Jr, Delano Middleton and Henery Smith
Students killed when highway patrolmen fire on protesters in Orangeburg South Carolina -
The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Assasinated in Memphis Tennessee. He was standing on the second-floor balcony of the Lorraine Motel, where he was staying, when a sniper’s bullet struck him in the neck. He was rushed to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead about an hour later, at the age of 39. His death had a big impact on both blacks and whites because he helped to bring both blacks and whites together and was not violent towards his enemies. This violence towards him enraged Americans.
