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Brown vs. Board of Education
The court case that allowed seperate but equal facilities was Plessy v. Ferguson. In Topeka Kansas, the board of education challenged the constitionality of racial segregation in public schools. The result of Brown v. Board was Supreme Court outlaws school segregation. -
George Lee Killed
George Lee is killed for leading voter-registration drive in Belzoni, Mississippi. -
Lamar Smith Murdered
Lamar Smith is murdered for organizing black voters in Brookhaven, Mississippi. -
Emmett Louis Till Murdered
Emmitt Lewis Till is murdered for speaking to a white woman in Money, Mississippi. -
John Earl Reese slain
John Earl Reese is slain by nightriders opposed to school improvements in Mayflower, Texas. -
Rosa Parks arrested
A black woman named Rosa Parks was sitting in the front of the bus when a white man walked in. The man told her to move but she refused to. Blacks had to move and sit in the back at this time so it was illegal. She was then arrested in Montgomery, Alabama for her actions. -
Bus boycott
A bus boycott begins in Montgomery, Alabama. -
Banning of segregated seating
The supreme court bans segregated seating on Montgomery buses. -
Willie Edward Jr. killed
Willie Edward Jr. is killed by Klansmen in Montgomery, Alabaama -
Civil Rights Act of 1957
President Dwight D. Eisenhower passed the Civil Rights Act of 1957. It established the Civil Rights Section of the justice department and empowered Federal Prosecuters to obtain court injunctions against interference with the right to vote. It was the first act signed since reconstruction. -
Events at Little Rock Arkansas
9 African American boys were not allowed to enter high school. On the first day of school, the Naational Guard was there to prevent the 9 boys from entering. The government protected these people by escorting them to school to make sure nothing could happen. President Eisenhower ordered this. -
Mack Charles Parker taken
Mack Charles Parker is taken from jail and lynched in Poplarville, Mississippi. -
Black Students stage sit-in
Black syudents stage sit-in at "whites only" lunch counter in Greenboro, North Carolina. -
Supreme Court outlaws segregation
The Supreme Court outlaws segregation in bus terminals. -
Attack of the Freedom Riders
The Freedom Riders were a group of whites and African Americans that rode the American South to protest segregation in interstate bus terminals. The Congress of Racial Equality was the head of this movement. -
Herbert Lee killed
Herbert Lee, who was a voter registration worker, is killed by a white legislator in Liberty, Mississippi. -
Voter registration drive
Civil rights groups join forces to launch voter registration drive. -
Roman Ducksworth Jr. taken
Roman Ducksworth Jr. is taken from a bus and killed by police in Taylorsville, Mississippi. -
Paul Guihard killed
Paul Guilhard who was a French reporter is killed during an Ole Miss riot in Oxford, Mississippi. -
James Meredith enrolls at Ole Miss
When he enrolled to Ole Miss, many riots started. People were ferious that he enrolled at Ole Miss. Government people had to protect James because people were so angry with him. -
William Lewis Moore slain
William Lewis Moore is slain during a one-man march against segregation in Attalla, Alabama. -
Marching children attacked
Birmingham police attack marching children with dogs and fire hoses. -
Alabama Governor stops integration
Alabama Governor George Wallace stands in schoolhouse door to stop university integration. -
Medgar Evers assassinated
Medgar Evers was a black Civil Rights leader. He was coming home from an integration meeting the afternoon he got shot. When he pulled up to his driveway outside his home, he was shot by a white supremacist in Jackson, Mississippi. -
The March on Washington
250,000 Americans marched on Washington for jobs and freedom in the nation's capital. During this, Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his famous "I have a dream" speech. -
Virgil Lamar Ware killed
Virgil Lamar Ware is a youth who is killed during a wave of racist violence in Birmingham, Alabama. -
Schoolgirls killed in bombings
Addie May Collins, Denise McNair, Caroline Robertson, Cynthia Wesley are schoolgirls that are killed in bombing of 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. -
Poll Tax
Poll tax is outlawed in federal elections. -
Louis Allen murder
Louis Allen witness to a murder of a civil rights worker assassinated in Liberty, Mississippi. -
Bruce Klunder killed
The Rev. Bruce Klunder is killed protesting construction of segregated school in Cleveland, Ohio. -
Henry Dee and Charles Moore killed
Henry Hezekiah Dee amd Charles Eddie Moore are killed by Klansmen in Meadville, Mississippi. -
Freedom Summer
Freedom Summer brings 1,000 young civil rights volunteers to Mississippi. -
Civil rights workers abducted
James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Micheal Schwerner are civil rights workers and are abducted and slain by klansmen in Philadelphia, Mississippi. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
President Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964. This law outlawed discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin, required equal access to public places and employment, and enforced desegregation of schools and the right to vote. -
Lt. Penn killed
Lt. Col Lemuel Penn is killed by Klansmen while driving north in Colbert, Georgia. -
Jimme Lee Jackson killed
Jimme Lee Jackson, a civil rights marcher, is killed by a state trooper in Marion, Alabama. -
State troopers beat marchers
State troopers beat the backs of marchers at Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama. -
James Reeb killed
The Rev. James Reeb who is a march volunteer is beaten to death in Selma, Alabama. -
March to Selma
The march to Selma was organized for voting rights in the south. The marches faced violent resistance and many racial remarks. The outcome of this event finally encouraged the Voting Rights Act. -
Viola Liuzzo killed
Viola Gregg Liuzzo is killed by Klsnsmen while transporting marchers in Selma Highway, Alabama. -
Oneal Moore killed
Oneal Moore, who was a black deputy, is killed by nightriders in Varnado, Louisiana. -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Congress passes Voting Rights Act of 1965. -
Willie Brewster killed
Willie Brewster is killed by nightriders in Anniston, Alabama. -
Seminary student killed
Jonathan Daniels who was a seminary student is killed by a deputy in Hayneille, Alabama. -
Samuel Younge Jr. killed
Samuel Younge Jr., a student civil rights activist, is killed in dispute in Tuskegee, Alabama. -
Vernon Dahmer killed
Vernon Dahmer, a black community leader, is killed in Klan bombing in Hattiesberg, Mississippi. -
Ben Chester White killed
Ben Chester White is killed by Klansmen in Natchez, Mississippi. -
Clarence Triggs slain
Clarence Triggs is slain by nightriders in Bogalusa, Louisiana. -
Wharlest Jackson killed
Wharlest Jackson, a civil rights leader, is killed after a promotion to a "white" job in Natchez, Mississippi. -
Benjamin Brown killed
Benjamin Brown, a civil rights worker, is killed when police were tired of protestors in Jackson, Mississippi. -
Thurgood Marshall first black Supreme Court Justice
Thurgood Marshall sworn in as first black Supreme Court Justice. Before this he was Chief Counsel for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. This was a monumental event because it showed that blacks were beginning to have power. -
Students killed
Samuel Hammond Jr., Delano Middleton, Henry Smith, who were students, are killed when highway patrolmen fire on protestors in Orangeburg, South Carolina. -
MLK Jr. assassinated
Just after 6 P.M., Martin Luther King Jr. is fatally shot while standing on his outside balcony in Memphis, Tennessee. The night before, he gave an inspiring speech for all blacks. Blacks were very angry because he was their leader. Whites were also angered because he was a great inspiration for all America. He was very innocent and just wanted the best for others. His death is a very tragic moment in America.
