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Brown v. Board of Education
The court case that allowed seperate but equal faciities was the 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson case. Linda Brown was denied admission to he local elementary school because she was black. The result was seperate but equal school facilities. -
The Rev. George Lee
Killed for leading voter- registration drive Beizoni, Mississippi -
Lamar Smith
Murdered for organizing black voters Brockhaven, Mississippi -
Emmit Louis Till
Murdered for speaking to a white woman Money, Mississippi -
John Earl Reese
Slain by nightriders opposed to school improvements Mayflower, Texas -
Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks a old black women was sitting on the white side of the bus and refused to give her seat up to white men. She was arrested. Montgomery, Alabama -
Mongomery Bus
Mongomery bus boycott begins -
Sepreme Court Bus Bans
Supreme court bans segregated seating on Mongomery Busses -
Willie Edwaerds JR.
Killed by Klansmen Montgomery, Alabama -
Civil Rights Act of 1957
Congress passes first Civil Rights Act since reconstruction. Stated that all americans have the right to vote. -
Events at Little Rock,AK
The Govenor Orval Faubus ordered Arkansas National Guard to keep african americans out of central highschool. Government built a second school. Little Rock, Arkansas -
Mack Charles Parker
Taken from jail and lynched Poplarville, Mississippi -
Diner Disaster
Black students stage sit-in at "Whites only" lunch counter Greensboro, North Carolina -
Supreme Court Outlaws Segregation
Supreme Court outlaws segregation in bus terminals -
Freedom Riders
The freedom riders were a series of poloitical protests against segregation by blacks and whites who rode busses together in the south. The american civil rights movement supported the freedom rides. -
Herbert Lee
Voter registration worker killed by white legislator. LIberty, Mississippi -
Civil Rights Groups Join Forces
Civil rights groups join forces to launch voter registration drive -
CPL. Roman Ducksworth JR.
Taken from bus and killed by police. Taylorville, Mississippi -
Black Student at Ole Miss
Riots erupted after James Meredith tried to enroll at Ole Miss. The government got involved by sending in troops to put the campus in order. University, Mississippi -
Paul Guihard
French reporter killed during Ole Miss riot Oxford, Mississippi -
William Lewis Moore
Slain during one-man march against segregation. Attala, Alabama -
Birmingham Police Attack
Birmingham Police attack marching children with dogs and fire hoses. Birmingham, Alabama -
George Wallace
Alabama Governer -
Medgar Evers Assassinated
Medgar Evers was an African-American civil rights activist from Mississippi involved in efforts to overturn segregation. Evers was shot while going into his house Jackson, Mississippi -
The March on Washinton
The march was to pressure the Kennedy administration into giving Stronger Civil rights to African Americans. The famous speech that was given by Martil Luther King JR. was his "I have a Dream" Speech. Washington DC -
Bombing on Babtist Church
Addie Mae Collins, Denise Mcnair, Caroline Robertson, Cynthia Wesley were schoolgirls killed in the bombing of Sixteenth Street Babtist Church Birmingham, Alabama -
Virgil Lamar Ware
Youth killed during wave of racist violence Birmingham, Alabama -
Poll Taxes
Poll Tax outlawed in federal elections. -
Louis Allen
Witness to murder of civil rights worker assassination Liberty, Mississippi -
The Rev. Bruce Klunder
Killed protesting construction of segregated school Clevland, Ohio -
Henry Hezekiah Dee and Charles Moore
Killed by Klansmen Meadville, Mississippi -
Freedom Summer
Freedom Summer brings 1,000 young civil rights volunteers to Mississippi -
James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, Micheal Schwerner
Civil rights workers abducted and slain by Klansmen Philidelphia, Mississippi -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
President Johnson passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, The right stated an act to enforce the constitutional right to vote, to confer jurisdiction upon the district courts of the United States of America to provide injunctive relief against discrimination in public accommodations, to authorize the Attorney General to institute suits to protect constitutional rights in public facilities and public education, to extend the Commission on Civil Rights. -
Lemuel Penn
Killed by Klansmen while driving north Cobert, Georgia -
Jimmie Lee Jackson
Civil Rights marcher killed by State Trooper Marion, Alabama -
March to Selma
The Selma Marches were organized to help gain voting rights when they were obstructed. The opposition was the state troopers who were holding them back. The Selma Marches contributed to the passage of the Voting Rights Act. -
Retreat
State Troopers beat back marchers at Edmund Pettus Bridge Selma, Alabama -
Rev. James Reed
March Volunteer beaten to death Selma, Alabama -
The Finish Line
Thousands Complete the Selma to Mongomery Voting Rights March -
Viola Greggliuzzo
Killed by Klansmen while transporting marchers Selma Highway, Alabama -
Oneal Moore
Black Deputy Killed by Nightriders Varnado, Lousiana -
Voting Rights Act
Congress Passes voting rights act of 1965 -
Willie Brewster
KIlled by Nightriders Anniston, Alabama -
Johnathan Daniels
Seminary student killed by deputy Hayneville, Alabama -
Samuel Younge JR.
Student civil rights activist in dispute Taskege, Alabama -
Vernon Dahmer
Black community Leader killed in bombing Hattiesburg, Mississippi -
Ben Chester White
Killed By Klansmen Matchez, Mississippi -
Clarence Triggs
Slain by night riders Bognlusa, Louisiana -
Wharlest Jackson
Civil Rights leader killed after promotion to 'White' Job Natchez, Mississippi -
Benjamin Brown
Civil rights worker killed when police fired on protestor Jackson, Mississippi -
Thurgood Marshall First Black Supreme Court Justice
Marshall was a Lawyer before becoming a judge. This event was monumental because he was the first black person to be in the supreme court. -
Samuel Hammond JR., Delano Middleton, Henry Smith
Students killed when highway patrolmen fire on protestors Orangeberg, South Carolina -
The Assassination of DR. Martin Luther King
During the assassination Martin was giving a speech called "I've Been To The Mountaintop". Because he was insporation on not to give up frighting for your rights.
