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Brown V.S. Board Of Education
The court case that allowed seperate but equal facilities was the Plessy V.S. Ferguson case. It helped break the segregatio and provid a spark to the American civil rights movement. The resuly of the case was passed a year later. -
The Rev. George Lee
He was killed for leading voter-registration drive. In Belzoni, Mississippi. -
Lamar Smith
Murdered for organizing black voters. In Brookhaven, Mississippi. -
Emmett Louis Till
He was murdered for speaking to a white woman. In Money, Mississippi. -
John Earl Reese
Slain by night riders. He opposed to school improvements. In Mayflower, Texas. -
Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white man. A white man had no seat because all the seats for the "white" people were filled. The bus driver had asked the four "colored" people in the first row of the color section to stand. Rosa was one of the four that was asked to stand, the other three "colored" people stood but Rosa kept sitting there. After awhile, two police officers came on the bus and arrested Rosa. -
Montgomery Bus
Montgomery bus boycott begins. The boycott lasted more than a year. -
Willie Edwards Jr.
He was killed by klansmen in Montgomery, Alabama. -
Civil Rights Act of 1957
Congress passes the first Civil Rights Act since reconstruction. Dwight D. Eisenhower signed it into law. The law stated that all African Americans could exercise their right to vote. It empowered federal prosecutors to obtain court injunctions against interference with the right to vote. -
Mack Charles Parker
Taken from jail and lynched in Poplarville, Mississippi. -
"Whites only"
Black students staged a sit in at "whites only" lunch counter in Greereboro, North Carolina. -
Segregation in buses
Supreme Court outlaws segregation in bus terminals. -
Freedom Riders
Freedom riders attacked in Alabama while testing compliance with bus desegregation laws. What they did is do a series of bus trips through the American south to protest segregation in interstate bus terminals. The organization CORE ( congress of racial equality) helped organize freedom riders. The freedom riders had a groups of 13 African Americans and white civil rights activists. -
Herbert Lee
Voter registration worker killed by white legislator. In Liberty, Mississippi. -
Registration Drive
Civil rights groups join forces to launch voter registration drive. -
CPL. Roman Ducksworth Jr.
He was taken from a bus and killed by police officers. In Tayforsville, Mississippi. -
James Meredith
Riots erupt when James Meredith, a black student enrolled at Ole Miss. Riots broke out, resulting in two people dead and hundreds wounded and others arrested. Kennedy called out 31,000 National Guardsmen and other federal forces to enforce order. -
Paul Guihard
A french reporter killed during Ole Miss riot. In Oxford, Mississippi. -
William Lewis Moore
He was slain during the one- man march against segregation. In Attila, Alabama. -
Birmingham
Birmingham police attack marching children with dogs and fire hoses. -
George Wallace
Alabama Governor George Wallace stands in schoolhouse door to stop university integration. -
Medgar Evers
Civil rights leader who was assassinated. In the driveway outside his own house he was shot to death by Bryon De La Beckwith. In Jackson, Mississippi. -
March on Washington
250,000 Americans marched on Washington for civil rights. The famous speech that was delivered when everyone met in Washington was Martin Luther King Jr.'s " I have a dream " speech. -
Addie Mae Collins, Denise McNair, Carole Robertson and Cynthia Wesley
Four schoolgirls killed in bombing of Sixteenth Street Baptist Church. In Birmingham, Alabama. -
Virgil Lamar Ware
Youth killed during wave of racist violence. In Birmingham, Alabama. -
Roll Tax 1964
Roll tax was outlawed in federal elections. -
Louis Allen
Was a witness to murder of civil rights worker that was assassinated. -
The Rev. Bruce Klunder
Killed protesting construction of segregated schools. In Cleveland ,Ohio. -
Henry Hezekiah Dee & Charles Eddie Moore
Killed by Klansrren. In Meadville, Mississippi -
Freedom Summer
Freedom summer brings 1,000 young civil rights volenteers to MIssissippi -
James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, & Micheal Schwerner
Civil rights workers abducted and slain by Klansmen. In Philadephia, Mississippi. -
Civil Rights Act
President Johnson signs Civil Rights Act of 1964. This law prohibited discrimination in public, made employment discrimination illigeal, and it provided combinging of different raced schools and othere public facilities. -
Lt. Col. Lemuel Penn
Killed by Klansmen while driving north in Colbert, Georgia. -
Jimmie Lee Jackson
Civil rights marcher killed by state trooper. In Marion, Alabama. -
March to selma
State troopers beat back marchers at Edmund Pettus Bridge. In Selma, Alabama. The march was organized because black people in the south were not allowed to vote. Even though in 1964 the government had passed a law that said no discrimination for voting. The ressistance they faced was the police trying to get them to stop walking. In the end it took three days but the people finally made it to Montgomery. A Voting Rights Act was passed later that year. -
The Rev. James Reed
James was a march volunteer who was beaten to death in Selma, Alabama -
Selma to Montgomery
Thousands of people complete the Selma to Montgomery voting rights march. -
Viola Greggliuzzo
She was killed by the Klansmen while transporting marchers. On Selma highway, Alabama. -
O'neal Moore
He was a black deputy killed by nightriders. In Varnando, Louisianna. -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Voting Rights Act was passed by congress. -
Willie Brewster
He was killed by nightriders in Anniston, Alabama. -
Jonathan Daniels
A seminary student killed by a debuty. In Hayneville, Alabama. -
Little Rock
President Eisenhower orders federal troops to enforce school desegregation in Little a Rock, Arkansas. Nine black students came to school with kids screaming " Go back to where you came from. " and shouting racial epithets. Some people had threatened to lynch the black kids. The principle wouldn't let the kids into the school. Eisenhower had ordered armed federal troops to the south to ensure that the civil rights of blacks were protected. -
Banned segregated seating
Supreme Court bans segregated seating on Montgomery buses. -
Sameul Younge Jr.
A student Civil RIghts activist killed in dispute. In Tuskegee, Alabama. -
Vernon Dahmer
A black community leader killed in Klan bombing. In Mattiesburg, Mississippi. -
Ben Chester White
He was killed by Klansmen. In Natchez, Mississippi. -
Clarence Triggs
Clarence was slain by nightriders in Bognlusa, Louisiana. -
Wharlest Jackson
He was a Civil rights leader killed after promotion to 'white' job. In Natchez, Mississippi. -
Benjamin Brown
He was a civil rights worker killed when police fired on protesters. In Jackson, Mississippi. -
Thurgood Marshall
Thurgood Marshall was sworn in as first black Supreme Court Justice. He had started his own law practice, defending clients against pre-war British creditors before becoming a justice. Him becoming a justice was probably monumental because not many blacks could get as far as he did. -
Sameul Hmmond Jr., Delano Middleton, and Henery Smith
These three guys were students that were killed by Klansmen in Natchez, Mississippi. -
Martin Luther King Jr.
Riots broke out in cities all across the U.S. and about a mile from MLK's motel was james Ray's sniper. James Earl Ray is the one who killed him. His death had such a big impact on people because he was the one person who stood up foor African Americans and said that they had as much right to be equal as the whites. It was called his " I had a dream speech."
