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Brown vs. Board of Education
The original Plessy v. Ferguson case was when the court ruled seperate but equal facilities as okay. The whole issue was surfaced when a black woman was denied access to her town, Topeka's, public school. Court unanimously ruled in the womans favor and the courts decision put the governmant on equalities side -
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Rev. Killed
Belzoni, Mississippi resident, Rev. George Lee killed for leading voter-registration drive -
Lamae Smith, black Veteran Killed
Lamar Smith mudered for organizing black voters in Brookhaven, Mississippi -
Emmet Till
Emmet Louis Till is murdered for so much as speaking to a white woman in Money, Mississippi -
John Earl Reese
Killed by night riders who didn't agree with school improvements in Mayflower, Texas -
Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks is arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white man on the bus. In response, the people of Montgomery, Alabama all boycott the Montgomery public bus system. -
Boycott
Montgomery bus boycott is started -
Segregated seating banned
Supreme court bans the segregated seating on buses in Montgomery -
Klansmen Kill
Willie Edwards Jr. killed in Montgomery, Alabama by Klansmen -
Civil Rights Act of 1957
Congress passes the first civil rights act since Reconstruction, giving more protection to the rights of black people and gave more voting rights. -
Little Rock, Arkansas
Little Rock's high school, Central High School, has selected nine black students to make the first steps towards desegregation & integration. But when the governor refused to allow the students t enter due to state troopers beng positioned at openings, president Eisenhower had to then in turn order federal troops to enforce the school desegregation. -
Mack Charles Parker
Taken from jail and then lynched in Poplarville, Mississippi -
Sit- in
Black students have a sit-in at Greensboro, North Carolina's "whites only" lunch counter -
Bus Segregation
Supreme court outlaws all segregation in bus terminals -
Attack of the Freedom Riders
Freedom Riders would get on the segregated bus systems, sit down, and refuse to move or get off in protest of black seatings. The NAACP and MLK Jr. were huge supporters and organizers of them. The Freedom Riders were often black volunteers but white college students also joined in. -
Herbert Lee
In Liberty, Mississippi, Herbert Lee, a voter registration worker is killed by a white legislator -
Civil rights groups
Civil rights groups join forces to launch voter registration drive -
CPL. Roman Ducksworth Jr.
CPL. Roman Ducksworth Jr. is taken from his bus and killed by the police of Taylorsille, Mississippi -
Paul Guimard
French reporter killed during Ole Miss riots in Oxford, Mississippi -
James Meredith
When James Meredith enrolled at Ole Miss, riots errupted around campus at the sheer absurdity of such a thought. The governor absolutely refused to allow him to even apply and personally turned him away at the doors. It got to the pont where the government had to step in and force the University to accept him or else be shut down. -
William Lewis Moore
Killed during a one-man march against segregation in Attalla, Alabama -
Children Attacked
Birmingham police arrack children who were marching with fire hoses and dogs. -
George Wallace
Alabama Governor, George Wallace, stands in schoolhouse door to stop integration at the university -
Medgar Evers
Evers was a civil rights leader who was assassinated in Jackson, Mississppi. He was active in the rights movement and was threatened often after he gave a speech on local television. He was then killed only minutes after president Kennedy gave a speech of his own supporting the movement. -
March On Washington
Martin Luther King Jr. led this march, leading African-Americans to protest for their voting rights. The famous, "I Have a Dream" speech was given on this march -
School girls killed
Addie Mae Collins, Denise McNair, Carole Robertson and Cynthia Wesley are all killed in the bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama -
Virgil Lamar Ware
Birmingham, Alabama strikes again with the death of young Virgil Lamae Ware during a wave of racist violence -
Tax
Poll tax outlawed in federal elections -
Louis Allen
Liberty, Mississippian, Louis Allen, a witness to a murder of a civil rights worker is assassinated -
Rev. Bruce Klunder
Killed while protesting the construction of a segregated school in Cleveland, Ohio -
Klansmen Kill again
Henry Hezekiah Dee & Charles Eddie Moore are killed by Klansmen in Meadville, Mississippi -
Freedom Summer
1,000 young civil rights volunteers are brought by Freedom Summer to Mississippi -
Klansmen abduct and kill
In Philadelphia, Mississippi, James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner, civil rights workers, are adbucted and killed by Klansmen -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
President Johnson passed this act after the passing of Kennedy in a final movement to protect the voting rights of African Americans, -
LT. COL. Lemuel
Killed by Klansmen while driving through Colbert, Georigia -
Jimmie Lee Jackson
The civil rights marcher was killed by a state trooper in Marion, Alabama -
March to Selma
The march to Selma was organized to stop the severe racism in Selma, Alabama. But the peaceful marchers were met with state troopers where men were brutally beaten. In turn, the world was shown that even though black people were promoting nonviolent protests, white people were the violent accusers. -
Rev. James Reeb
March volunteer was beaten to death iin Selma, Alabama -
Voting March
Thousands complete the Selma to Montgomery votinh rights march -
Viola Gregg Liuzzo
Killed by Klansmen while transporting marchers on the Selma Highway in Alabama -
Oneal Moore
A Varnado, Louisiana black deputy is killed by nightriders. -
Voting Rights
Congress passes Voting Rights Act of 1965 -
Willie Brewster
Anniston, Alabama resident, Willie Brewster is killed by nightriders -
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
Klan bombing in Hattiesburg, Mississippi kills a black community leader -
Ben Chester White
Man killed by Klansmen in Natchez, Mississippi -
Clarence Triggs
Slain by nightriders in Bogolusa, Louisiana -
Wharlest Jackson
Natchez, Mississippian civil rights leader killed for getting a promotion to a "white job" -
Benjamin Brown
Civil rights worker killed when police fired on protesters in Jackson, Mississippi -
Thurgood Marshall Black Supreme Jusice
Before Marshall became a Justice, he was a big role player in the NAACP. This was also a huge game changer for the black community because having an African American on the Supreme Court was kind of a final step in the governments acception of them. -
Students killed
Samuel Hammond Jr, Delano Middleton, and Henry Smith are killed when highway patrolmen fire on protesters in Orangeburg, South Carolina -
MLK Jr. Assassinated
Martin Luther King Jr. was standing on the balcony of his hotel in Memphis, Tennessee and he was shot. The death of this great leader was a turning point for both races. He was a huge factor of the movement of the civil rights and losing him was like a final battle blow before the world moved on with their acceptance.
