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Brown vs. Board of Education
The case Plessy vs Ferguson allowed seperate facilities for blacks and whites, but equal facilities. In Topeka, Kansas Linda Brown was denied going to an elementary school only 5 blocks from her house, because of skin color. The result of Brown vs Board was that the Supreme Court outlaws school segregation. -
The Rev. George Lee
The Rev. George Lee was killed for leading voter-registration drive in Belzoni, Mississippi. -
Lamar Smith
Lamar Smith was murdered for organizing black voters in Brookhaven, Mississippi. -
Emmett Louis Till
Emmett Till was murdered for speaking to a white woman in Money, Mississippi. -
John Earl Reese
John Reese was slain by nightriders opposed to school improvements in Mayflower, Texas. -
Rosa Parks Arrested
Rosa parks sat in the middle of the bus which was aloud unless whites were standing. As more whites got on the driver yelled at the blacks to get up. EVeryone moved except Rosa. She tells the bus driver "no" and he returns with a policeman. The result of the refusal to give up her seat was arrest. -
Bus Boycott
The Montgomery bus boycott begins in Alabama. -
Supreme Court Bans
Supreme court bans segregated seating on Montgomery buses in Alabama. -
Willie Edwards Jr.
Wille Edward Jr. was killed by Klansman in Montgomery, Alabama. -
Civil Rights Act of 1957
Congress passed this law and Eisenhower signed it. It gives protection for voting and created the Civil Rights Division in the Department of Justice. -
Little Rock, Arkansas
Armed Troops were blocking black children from attending Cenral Highschool. Eisenhower orders federal troops to enforce school desegregation in schools. -
Mack Charles Parker
Mack Charles Parker was taken from jail and lynched in Poplarville, Mississippi. -
Black Students
Black students stage sit-in at "whites only" lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina. -
Supreme Court and Segregation In Bus Stops
Supreme court outlaws segregation in bus terminals. -
Freedom Riders
Freedom Riders were groups of people that rode interstate buses together in to the segregated south. The Congress of Racial Equality and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee helped organize free rides. Freedom riders consisted of both black and whites. -
Herbert Lee
Voter registration worker killed by white legislator in Liberty, Mississippi. -
Civil Right Groups
Civil rights groups join forces to launch voter registration drive. -
CPL. Roman Ducksworth Jr.
CPL. Roman Ducksworth Jr. was taken from bus and then killed by police in Taylorsville, Mississippi. -
Ole Miss
When James Meredih tries to enroll at Ole Miss riots erupted. President Kennedy ordered 500 Marshals to join Meredith as he registered. -
Paul Guihard
Paul Guihard was a fFrench reporter killed during Ole Miss riot in Oxford, Mississippi. -
William Lewis Moore
SLain during one-man march against segregation in Attalla, Alabama. -
Birmingham Police
Birmingham Police attack marching children with dogs and fire hoses. -
Alabama Govenor George Wallace
Alabama Govenor George Wallace stands in schoolhouse door to stop university integration. -
Medgar Evers
Evers was a civil rights activist. He organized boycotts of companies that practiced discrimination. Evers was in his driveway in Jackso, Mississippi and was shot/killed by white supremacist Byron De La Beckwith. -
March on Washington
The purpose of the march was for civil rights, jobs, and freedom. 250 thousand people participated. The famous speech "I Have a Dream" was given by Martin Luther King Jr. . -
Schoolgirls Killed In Bombing
Addie Mae Collins, Denise McNair, Carole Robertson, and Cynthia Wesley were all schoolgirls killed in bombing of Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. -
Virgil Lamar Ware
Youth killed during wave of racist violence in Brmingham, Alabama. -
Poll Tax
Poll tax outlawed in federal elections. -
Louis Allen
Witness to murder of civil rights worker assasisnated in Liberty, Mississippi. -
The Rev. Bruce Klunder
The Rev. Bruce Klunder was killed protesting construction of segregated schools in Cleveland, Ohio. -
Henry Hezekiah Dee & Charles Eddie Moore
Killed by klansmen in Meadville, Mississippi. -
LT. COL. Lemuel Penn
Killed by lansmen while driving north in Colbert, Georgia. -
Freedom Summer
Freedom summer brings one thousand young civil rights volunteers to Mississippi. -
James Chaney, Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman
Civil rights workers abducted and slain by klansmen in Philadelphia, Mississippi. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
President Johnson signed the Civil RIghts Act of 1964. This act was very important to the civil rights movement. It baned segregation in public places. -
Jimmie Lee Jacksom
Civil rights marcher killed by stste trooper in Marion, Alabama. -
Rev. James Reeb
March volunteer beaten to death in Selma, Alabama. -
Viola Gregg Liuzzo
Killed by Klansman while transporting marchers in Selma Highway, Alabama. -
Completition of The March
Thousand complete the march. -
March to Selma
The march was to protect voting rights. The people marching faced violent opposition and for some faced death. The result was that AFrican Americans got protection against barriers that prevented them from voting. -
Oneal Moore
Black deputy killed by nightriders in Varnado, Lousiana. -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Congress passes Voting Rights act of 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 Begalusa, Louisiana. -
Wharlest Jackson
Civil rights leader killed after promotion to 'white' job in Natchez, Mississippi. -
Benjamin Brown
Civil rights worker killed when police fired on protesters in Jackson, Mississippi. -
Thurgood Marshall
Before becoming the first black Supreme Court justice Marshall was a lawyer. I think this was a monumental event, because a black having a high up role is a big step in the civil rights movement. -
Samuel Hammond Jr., Delano Middleton, and Henry Smith
Students killed when highway patrolmen fire on protesters in Orangeburg, South Carolina. -
Assassisnation of Dr. Martin Luther King
He was shot on the balcony of a hotel in Tennessee by James Earl Ray. The news of his death started racial violence throughout the country. There was 40 deaths nation wide. HIs death affected both blacks and whites, because he changed viewpoints and made the united states a more equal place.
