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Brown v. Board
The brown v. Board allowed seprate but equal facilities. There was alot of sergregation in school, so the outcome of this was banning segregation in school. -
Rev. George Lee Killed
Rev. George Lee killed for leading voter-registratiopn drive
Belzoni, Mississippi -
Lamar Smith Murdered
Murdered for organizing black voters.
Brookhaven, Mississippi -
Emmett Louis Till Murdered
Murdered for speaking to white women.
Money, Mississippi -
John Earl Reese
Slain by nightriders opposed to school improvements.
Mayflower, Texas -
Rosa Parks arrested
She refused to give up her seat to a white man, and then she got arrestested. This caused many boycotts and riots. -
Montgomery bus boycott begins
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Supreme Court bans segregated seating on Montgomery buses
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Willie Edwards Jr. Killed
Killed by Klansmen.
Montgomery, Alabama -
Civil rights act of 1957
Congress passed this law. It showed supoost of the supreme courts brown decision. It was primarly a voting rights bill. -
Events at little rock
President Eisenhower orders federal troops to enforce school desegregation -
Mack Charles Parker taken from jail
Taken from jail and lynched.
Poplarville, Mississippi -
Black students stage sit in
Black students sage sit it at a whutes ony lunch counter in Greersboro, North Carolina -
Supreme Court outlaws segregation in bus terminals
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Attack of the freedom riders
Political protesters who rode buses through the south. Some whites were involoved if they were apart of. -
Heart Lee
Voter registration worker killed by white legislator.
Liberty, Mississippi -
Civil rights groups join forces to launch oter registration drive
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Cpl. Roman Ducksworth Jr.
Taken from bus and killed by police. Taylorville, Mississippi -
Paul Guihard
French reporter killed during Ole Miss riot. Oxford Mississippi -
James Meredith enrolls at Ole Miss
Riots erupt when James Meredith, a black student enrolls at Ole Miss. They got the governments force to support the black freedom struggle. -
William Lewis Moore
Slain during one-man march against segregation. Attalla, Alabama -
Birmingham police attack
Birmingham police attack marching children with dogs and fire hoses. -
Alabama Governor
George Wallace stands in schoolhouse door to stop university integration. -
Medgar Evers Assassinated
Medgar Evers was a Civil rights leader. He was shot to death in a driveway outside his home. -
The March on Washington
250,000 Americans march on Washington for civil rights. It was for jobs and freedom in the nations capital. MLK delivered hid "I have a dream" speech. -
Virgil Lamar Ware
Youth killed during wave of raciest violence. Birmingham Alabama -
Addie Mae Collins, Denise Mcnair, Carole Robertson, Cynthia Wesley
Schoolgirls killed in bombing of Sixteenth Street Baptist Church. Birmingham, Alabama -
Poll tax outlawed in federal elections
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Louis Allen
Witness to murder of civil nights worker assasinated. Liberty Mississippi -
The Rev. Bruce Klunder
Killed protesting construction of segregated school. Cleveland Ohio -
Henry Hezekiah Dee & Charles Eddie Moore
Killed by Klansmen. Meadville, Mississippi -
Freedom summer brings 1,000 young civil rights volunteers to Mississippi
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Civil rights workers abducted and slain by Klansmen
James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, Micheal Schwerner -
Civil rights act of 1964
President Johnson passed the law. It ended segregation in public places and banned employment discrimination. -
Lt. Col Lemuel Penn
Killed by Klansmen while driving south -
Jimmie Lee jackson
Civil rights marcjer killed by state trooper -
State troopers beat back marchers at Edmund Pettus Bridge
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The Rev. James Reed
March volunteer beaten to death -
Viola Gregg Liuzzo
Killed by Klansmen while transporting marchers -
March to Selma
Thousands complete the Selma to Montgomery Voting Rights March. It was a protest to racial injustice. There was national outrage. Congress passed the voting rights act. -
Oneal Moore
Black deputy killed by nightriders -
Congress passes Voting Rights Act of 1965
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Willie Brewster
Killed by nightriders -
Jonathan Daniels
Seminary student killed by deputy -
Samuel Younge Jr.
Student civil rights activist killed in dispute -
Vernon Dahmer
Black community leader killed in Klan bombing -
Ben Chester White
Killed by Klansmen -
Clarence Triggs
Slain by nightriders -
Wharlest Jackson killed after promotions to white job
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Civil rights worker killed when police fired on protesters
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Thurgood Marshall
Thurgood Marshall swom in as first black Supreme Court Justice. He worked on the court trying to end racial discrimination before. He was thr first black so that showed that discrimination was ending. -
Students killed when highway patrolmen fire on protesters
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The assasination of Dr. Martin Luther King
The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated. He was assasinated in a hotel in Memphis, the assasination sparked many riots. The death was such A big impact because he was the most important voice in the civil rights movement and he was working for equality.
