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Brown v. Board of education
The court case that allowed separrate but equal facilities was called the Plessy v. Ferguson. IN Topeka, Kansas a black student got denied from an all white school which claimed to go angainst the consitituion's equal protection clause because the black schools were not eaual to the white schools. The result of the Brown v. Board of education was the seperation between white and black schools and state laws declared creating separate schools was to be uncontitutional. -
George Lee
The Rev. George Lee was killed for leading voter-regstration drive Belzoni, Mississippi -
Lamar Smith
Murdered for organizing black voters. Brookhaven, Mississippi -
Emmett Louis Till
Murdered for speaking to a white women Money, Mississippi -
John Earl Reese
Slain by nightriders opposed to school improvements Mayflower, Texas -
Rosa Parks
What happened on december 1st that changed history Rosa parks went on the Montgomery bus after work and sat near the middle of the bus after all the reserved white people seats. And the bus driver asked if all the black people could move back one more row because a white man needed a seat and Rosa simply refused to do so. And the result of her refusal to give up her seat she was arrested for violating the Jim Crow laws. And soon that started a boycot on the Montgomery buses. -
Montgomery boycott begins
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Montgomery buses
Supreme court bans segregated seating on Montgomery buses -
Wille Edwards Jr.
Wille Edward Jr. killed by Klansmen Montgomery, Alabama -
The Civil Rights Act of 1957
Who passed the Civil Act of 1957 was Dwight D. Eisenhower. The Act stated that it would protect the rights of African Americans and other minorites. -
Little Rock, Arkansas
What happened in Litle Rock, Arkansas was Orval Faubus the Governor at the time ordered the National Gaurd to not allow any African American to enroll in an all white school. The government responded by the President sending Army troops to the school and protecting the students trying to attened there. -
Mack Charles Parker
Mack Charles Parker taken from jail and lynched Poplarville, Mississippi -
Students sit at a white only table
black students stage sit-in at "whites only' lunch counter in Greersborg, North Carolina -
New outlaws
Supreme court outlaws segergation on bus terminals. -
Attack of the Freedom Riders
The Freedom Riders fought against segergation. The (CORE) The Congress of Racial Equality hepled organize the Freedom Riders. Not only were African Americans Freedom Riders many White people joined too. -
Herbert Lee
Herbert Lee voter registration worker killed by white legslator Liberty, Mississippi -
Civil Rights
Civil rights groups join forces to launch voter registration drive. -
CPL. Roman Ducksworth Jr.
CPL. Roman ducksworth Jr. Taken from bus and killed b police Taylorsville, Mississippi -
Paul Guihard
Paul Guihard french reporters killed during Ole miss riot Oxford, Mississippi -
James Meredith enrolls at Ole Miss
When James Meredith tried to enroll at Ole Miss riots erupted and 31,000 National Graudsmen and more federal forcees were sent to enforce order. -
William Lewis Moore
William Lewis Moore slain during one rain march against segergation Artalla, Alabama -
The Brimingham Police
Brimingham police attack marching children with dogs and dire hoses -
Alabama Governor
Alabama Governor george Wailace stands in schoolhouse door to stop university intergration -
Medgar Evers assassinated
Medger Evers was a civil rights activist. It all started when Medger was denied from The University of Mississippi Law School. He then joined the NAACP. he soon became a feild secertary of the NAACP. And many people who were againsts him looked at him as a target and he was later shot and killed. -
March on Washington
The March on Washimgton happened because the African Americans needed to address that the political and social challenges they were facing at the time. The famous speech giving at Washington was the "I Have a Dream' speech. -
Virgil Lamar Ware
Virgil Lamar Ware youth killed during wave of racist violence Birmingham, Alabama -
The bombing of sixth street
Addie Mae Collins, Denise Mcnair, Carole Robertson, Cynthia Wesley Schoolgirls killed in bombing of sixteenth street Baptist Church Birmingham, Alabama -
Poll tax outlaawed in federal elections.
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Louis Allen
Witness to murder of civil rights worker assassinated Liberty, Mississippi -
Henery Hezekiah Dee and Charles Eddie Moore
Killed by Klansman Meadville, Mississippi -
Civil rights volunteers
Freedom summer brings 1,000 young civil rights volunteers to Mississippi -
James channy, Andrew Goodman, Michael Schwerner
Civil rights workers abducted and slain by Klansman Philadelphia, Mississippi -
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
President Lyndon B. Johnson signed The Civil Rights Act of 1964. This Act ended segregation in public places and banned discrimination due to race, color, religon, sex or national origin. -
LT. Collemuel Penn
Killed by Klansmen while driving north Colbert, Georgia -
Jimmie Lee Jackson
Civil rights marcher killed by state trooper Marion, Alabama -
State troopers
State troopers beat back marchers at Edmund Pettus Bridge Selma, Alabama -
The Rev. James Reeb
March Volunteer beaten to death Selma, Alabama -
Viola Gregg Liuzzo
Killed by Klansmen while transporting marchers Selma highway, Alabama -
The March to Selma
The march to Selma was organized to register black voters. During the march many troopers tried to stop them buy attacking the marchers and trying to create a blockade. the result of the march to Selma was Congress passed the Voting Rights Act. -
The Rev. Bruce Kilunder
Killed protesting construction of segergated school Cleveland, Ohio -
Oneal Moore
Black deputy killed by nightriders Varnado, Louisiana -
Congress passes Voting Rights Act of 1965
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Willie Brewster
Killed by nightriders Anniston, Alabama -
Jonathan Daniels
Seminary student killed by deputy Hayneville, Alabama -
Samuel Young Jr.
Student civil rights activist killed in dispute Tuskegee, Alabama -
Vernon Dahmer
Black community leader killed in Klan bombing Hattiesburg, Mississippi -
Ben Chester White
killed by Klansmen Natchez, Mississippi -
Clarence Triggs
Slain by nightriders Begalusa, Louisiana -
Wharlest Jackson
civil rights leader killed after promotins to "white" job Natchez, MIssissippi -
Benjamin Brown
Civil rights worker killed when police fired on protesters Jackson, Mississippi -
Thurgood Marshall first black supreme court justice
Before Thurgood Marshall became a supreme court justice he was the cheif counsel for the National Association for the Advancement of colored people (NAACP). I think this was a monumental event because he was the first black Sumpreme court justice adn he helped make many decisons and he won more cases before the supreme court than any other American. -
Samuel Hammond Jr. Deland Middleton, Henry Smith
Students killed when highway patrolmen fire on protesters Orangeburg, South Carolina -
The assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Mrtin Luther King Jr. was on the balcony at his hotel and was shot in his jaw and severed his spinal cord. Many people started riots across the country after they found out he passed away he influenced many people and not only African Americans but White people to.
