Civil Rights Movement Hunter Weber

Brown v. Board of Education

May 17, 1954

1. Plessy v. Ferguson
2. Whites went to white schools, blacks went to black schools
3. separate schools for whits and blacks are unconstitutional.

Rosa Parks Arrested

Dec 1, 1955

1. On buses whits sit tin the back of the bus and blacks sit in the front. Rosa did not give up her seat in the back.
2. She was fined 10$ and 4$ in court costs.

Civil Rights Act

Aug 27, 1957

1. Dwight D. Eisenhower passed the law.
2. To protect individuals rights and to give people equal protection

Little Rock Arkansas

Sep 4, 1957

1. 9 Blacks were sent to Central high school to go to school. Central high was an all white school at the time. Governor Orval sent the National Guard to stop them from entering the school.
2. Eisenhower put the guards under federal control to stop the violence.

Taken from jail

Apr 25, 1959

1. Poplasville Mississippi
2. Mack Charles was taken from and Popasville jail and was lynched.

Freedom Riders

May 14, 1961

1. They rode interstate buses into the segregated south.
2. Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)
3. Whites joined in as well

James Meredith Roles at Ole Miss

Sep 30, 1962

1. A fight between Southern segregationist civilians and federal and state forces
2. JFK sent 31,000 federal and National guardsmen to enforce order

Schoolhouse interigation

Jun 11, 1963

1. Alabama
2. Govener George Wallace stands in the door way to stop university interigation

Medgar Evers assination

Jun 23, 1963

1.He was an African American civil rights activist. Who worked to overturn segregation at the University of Mississippi
2. Evers became the first African American to become the first field secretary for the NAACP in Mississippi.

March on Washington

Aug 28, 1963

1. The march was for jobs and freedom in the nations capitol.
2. I Have a Dream

Civil Rights act 1964

Jul 2, 1964

1. Lyndon b. Johnson
2. It outlawed discrimination based on race, color, sex, or religion

March to Selma

Mar 25, 1965

1. To make a voter registered campaign
2. large crowds, angry white protesters, and a lot of violence
3. The president signed the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

Civil rights leader killed

Feb 27, 1967

1. Natchez Mississippi
2. Civil rights leader Wharlest Jackson killed after promotion to a 'white' job

Thurgood Marshall

Oct 2, 1967

1. He had successfully argued so many times before in court cases.
2. He was the first African American to become a justice of the Supreme court.

Students killed

Feb 8, 1968

1. Orangeburg South Carolina
2. Three students killed in protest by highway patrolmen fire.

Assassination of MLK

Apr 4, 1968

1. MLK was shot in a Memphis hotel.
2. The biggest leader to the African Americans was killed. He was the one that got them their rights.

Marching students killed

Dec 24, 1978

1. Birmingham
2. Children killed with dogs and fire hoses.