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Brown v. Board of Education
Supreme court outlaws school segregation. They do this after the case Brown v. Board of Deducation. This started because a young girl by the name of Linda Brown was trying to get an education and attend an all white school. This case decided that segregation in public schools is unconstitutional -
George Lee
George Lee is killed for leading the voter-registration drvie -
Lamar Smith
Murdered for organizing black voters in -
Emmett Till
This boy was murdered for speaking to a white women in a racy way -
John Reese
He was killed by nightriders opposed to school improvements -
Rosa Parks
She refused to give up her seat to white man and was arrested. This started a boycott of the buses by the black comunity in Montgomery Alabama -
Montgomery Boycott
TheMontgomery boycott starts -
Segregated Seating, Montgomery
The Supreme court bans segregated seating on the Montgomery buses -
Willi Edwards Jr.
Killed by Klansmen -
First Civil Rights act
Congress passed this law. It showed support for the Browm v Board of Ed. -
Mack Parker
Taken from jail and lynched -
Black Students
Black students stage sit-in at "white only" lunch counter -
Bus Terminal Segregation
Segregation is outlawed in bus termials by Supreme court -
Freedom Riders
Freedom Riders attacked in Alabama while testing compliance with bus desegregation laws. The CORE organization helped organize the freedom riders. Whites were also freedom riders also -
Herbert Lee
Voter registration worker killed by white legislator -
Voter Registration Drive
Civil rights groups join forces to launch voter registration drive -
Cpl. Roman Ducksworth Jr.
Taken from bus and killed by police -
James Menedith
Meredith is accepted to the college. He keeps on his campain with blacks regeisting to vote and starts a solo march and is shot by a white gunman -
Ole Miss Riot
French Reporter is killed during riot -
Police attack Children
Birmingham police attack marching childeren with dogs and fire hoses -
William Lewis Moore
Slain during one-man march against segregation -
Medgar Evers
He was a civil rights leader. What happenned was he was murdered by a Whites Citizen Counsel -
Washington Civil rights Walk
This march was for jobs and freedom. The I Have a Dream speach was presented here. 250,000 Americans march on Washington for cvil rights -
Baptist Church bombing
Schoolgirls are killed when a bapstist church is bombed -
Poll Tax
Poll tax oiutlawed in federal elections -
Louis Allen
Witnesses a murder of a civil rights worked that was assassinated -
Bruce Klunder
Was killed protesting construction of segregated school -
Henry Hexeklahdee and Charles Moore
Killed by klansmen -
Freedom Summer
Brings 1,000 young civil rights -
Cvil RIghts Workers Slain
Civil rights workers are abducted and slain by klansmen -
Civl Rights Act, Johnson
Civil rights act is signed by president Johnson. This law outlawed discrimination based on race, sex religion, ext. -
Lemuel Penn
Killed by Klansmen while driving north -
Jimmie Jackson
Civil rights marcher killed by state trooper -
Marchers beat back
State trooper beats back marchers -
James Reeb
March to Selma volunteer beaten to death. This march was organize to help with the Voting rights movement. These marchers faced white resistance. The result of this was the civil rights act of 1965 -
Montgomery March
Thousands complete the Selma to Montgomery Voting rights march -
Viola Liuzzo
Killed by Klansmen while transporting marchers -
Oneal Moore
Black deputy killed my nightriders -
Voting rights act
Congress passes voting rignts act of 1965 -
Willie Brewster
Killed by nightriders -
Jonathan Daniels
Seminary student killed by duputy -
Samuel Younge Jr.
Student rights activist killed in dispute -
Vernon Dahmer
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Ben White
Killed by klansmen -
Clarence Triggs
Slain by nightriders -
Wharlest Jackson
Civil rights leader killed after promotion to 'white' job -
Benjamin Brown
Civil Rights worker killed when police fired on protesters -
Thurgood Marshall
First black Supreme court justice sworn in. He was known for his high success in arguing the supreme court. It showed that the segregation barrier were coming down and blacks were accepted in all workplaces. -
Samuel Hammond Jr.
Students killed when highway patrolmen fire on protesters -
The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
MLKJ is Assassinated. What happenned afterwards was there were riots in cities all over the countries. It had such an impact because he was the face of the entire civil rights movement
