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Brown v. Board of Education
Sepreme Court outlawas school segregation- Plessy v. Ferguson, Topeka declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional, "separate eduction facilities are inherently unequal." -
The rev. George Lee killed
Killed for leading voter-registration drive in Belzoni, Mississippi. -
Lamar Smith
Murdered for organizing black voters in Brookhaven, Mississsippi. -
Emmett Louis Till
Murdered for speaking to a white woman in Money, Mississippi. -
John Earl Reese
Slain by neighbors opposed to school improvements in Mayflower, Texas. -
Rosa Parks arrested
Arrested for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama. The result was that there was a riot and a protest. -
Boycott Begins
Montgomery bus boycott begins. -
Supreme Court bans segregation
Supreme court bans segregated seating on Montgomery buses. -
Willie Edwards Jr.
Killed by Klansmen in Montgomery, Alabama. -
Civil Rights Act of 1957
Congress passed first civil rights act since reconstruction. Law was primarily a voting rights bill. -
Events in Little Rock, Arkansas
President Eisenhower orders federal troops to enfource school desegregation in Little Rock, Arkansas. The government escorted them in and out of school to help keep them safe. -
Mack Charles Parker
Taken from jail and lynched in Poplarville, Mississippi. -
Black Students
Black students stage sit-in at "whites only" lunch counter in Greereboro, North Carolina. -
Segregation in bus terminals
Supreme court outlaws segregation in bus terminals. -
Freedom Riders Attacked
Freedom riders attacked in Alabama while testing compliance with bus segregation laws. SNCC helped organize and others joined in, -
Herbert Lee
Voter registration worker killed by white legislator in Liberty, Mississippi. -
Civil Rights Groups
Civil rights groups join forces to launch voter registration drive. -
CPL. Roman Ducksworth Jr.
Taken from bus and killed by policde in Taylorsville, Mississippi. -
Black student enrolls at Ole Miss
Riots erupt when James Meredith, a black student, enrolls at Ole Miss. -
Paul Guihard
French reporters killed during Ole Miss riot in Oxford, Mississippi. The event was a flashpoint and he got shot but recovered after he got in. -
William Lewis Moore
Slain during one-man march against segregation in Attalia, Alabama. -
Police attack children
Birmingham police attack marching children with dogs and fire hoses. -
Alabama Governor
Alabama Governor George Wallace stands in schoolhouse door to stop university integration. -
Medgar Evers
Civil rights leader assassinated in Jackson, Mississippi. Involved in efforts to overturn segragation at the University of Mississippi. -
March on Washington
250,000 Americans march on Washington for civil rights. For jobs and freedom, MLK speech "I have a dream" speech took place. -
Schoolgirls killed
Addie Mae Collins, Denise Mcnair, Carole Robertson, Cynthia Wesley were schoolgirls killed in bombing of sixteenth street baptist church in Birmingham, Alabama. -
Virgil Lamar Ware
Youth killed during wave or racist violence in Birmingham, Alabama. -
Poll Tax
Poll tax outlawed in federal elections. -
Louis Allen
Witness to murder of civil rights worker asassinated in Liberty, Mississippi. -
Bruce Klunder killed
The rev. Bruce Klunder killed protesting construction of segregated school in Cleveland, Ohio. -
Henry Hezekiah Dee & Charles Eddie Moore
Killed by Klansmen in Meadville, Mississippi. -
Freedom Summer
Brings 1,000 young civil rights volunteers to Mississippi. -
James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner
Civil rights workers abducted and slain by Klansmen in Philadelphia, Mississippi. Passed by congress, basically gave people rights no matter what race or gender. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
President Johnson sighns Civil Rights Act of 1964. -
LT. Col Lemuel Penn
Killed by Klansmenwhile driving north in Colbert, Georgia. -
Jimmie Lee Jackson
Civil rights marcher killed by state trooper in Marion, Alabama. -
State Troopers
Beat back marchers at Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama. -
March Volunteer
The rev, James Reeb was a march volunteer beaten to death in Selma, Alabama. Americans wanteed rights to vote, marched 54-mile highway, many other marches started and fights broke out. -
Voting Rights March
Thousands complete the Selma to Montgomery Voting Rights March. -
Viola Gregg Liuzzo
Killed by Klansmen while transporting marchers in Selma Highway, Alabama. -
Oneal Moore
Black deputy killed by nightriders in Varnado, Louisiana. -
Congress pass
Voting Rights Act of 1965. -
Willie Brewster
Killed by nightriders in Anniston, Alabama. -
Johnathan 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 killde in Klan bombing in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. -
Ben Chester White
Killed by Klansmen in Natchez, Mississippi. -
Clarence Triggs
Slain by nightriders in Bognlusa, Alabama. -
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
Sworn in as first black Supreme Court Justice. Was a lawyer, first african-american judge. -
Samuel Hammind Jr, Delano Middleton, Henry Smith
Students killed when highway patrolmen fire on protesters in Orangeburg, South Carolina. -
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. assasinated
The rev, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. assasinated in Memphis, Tennessee. The family thought it was conspiracy by government and it impacted the people because he was the first black pesident.
