-
Brown v. Board of Education
Supreme Court outlaws school segregation. The Supreme Court ruled unanimously in the Brown v. Board of Education. Well Topeka Kansas,that segregation in public schools was unconstitutional and violated the Fourteenth Amendment. -
Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks Arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama. -
Civil Rights Act of 1957
The same year that the Little Rock Crisis began, Congress passed the civil rights law since reconstruction. The Civil Rights Act of 1957 was intended to protect the right of African Americans to vote. -
Crisis in Little Rock
In September 1957, the school board in Little Rock, Arkansas, won a court order to admit nine African American students to Central High school The Governor of Arkansas, Orval Faubus ordered troops from the Arkansas National Guard to prevent the nine African American students from entering the school. Mobs stared to become a riot, so the mob violence pushed president Eisenhower's patience to the breaking point. He ordered the U.S army to protect the nine from angry white mobs. -
Mack Charles Parker
Mack Charles Parker was an African-American Victim of lynching in the United States. He was accused of raping a pregnant white women in northern Northern River County in Mississippi. -
Herbert Lee
Herbert Lee Voter registration worker killed by white legislator Liberty in Mississippi. -
James Meredith
An African American air force veteran named James Meredith applied to the University of Mississippi. The Governor of Mississippi was blocking his path to enroll at the university. Kennedy ordered the army to send several thousand troops to the campus due to the mob riots. For the rest of the year , Meredith attented classes under federal guard. -
Paul Guihard
Paul Guihard who was a French reporter was killed during Ole Miss riot Oxford, Mississippi -
Birmingham Police
On May 3, 1963 Birmingham police attack marching children with dogs and fire hoses. -
Medgar Evers Assassinated
Medgar Evers was an African American civil rights activist from Mississippi who worked to over turn segregation at the Universty of Mississippi and gain social justice and voting rights. -
The March on Washington
The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, was one of the largest political rallies for human rights in the United States history and demanded civil and economic rights for African Americans. I have a dream by Martin Luther King Jr. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
The Civil rights Act of 1964, ended segregation in public places and banned employment discrimination on the basis of race , sex, religion and national origin. First proposed by John F. Kennedy and then signed into law by Kennedy's successor, Lyndon B. Johnson. In subsequent years, Congress expanded the act and also passed legislation at bringing equality to African Americans. -
The March to Selma
Martin Luther King Jr.'s Southern Christian Leadership Conference made Selma, Alabama, the focus of it's efforts to register black voters in the south. Protesters attempting to march from Selma to the state capitol of Montgomery were met with violent resistance by state and local authorities. The need for the Voting Rights Act, passed later that year. -
Slain
Clarence Triggs slain by nigh riders in Bogalusa, Louisana -
Thurgood Marshall
Thurgood Marshall was an Associate Justice of Supreme Court of the United Sates. Marshall was the Court's 96th justice and its first African American justice. -
The Assassination
Civil Rights Leader Martin Luther King Jr. who was fatally shot at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis Tennessee. Shock waves reverberated around the world. His assassination led to an out pouring of anger among black Americans, as well as a period of national mourning that helped speed the way for an equal housing bill that would be the last significant legislative achievement of the civil rights era.
