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Brown vs. Board of Education
The Plessy vs. Ferguson case allowed the "seperate but equal facilities". What started the Brown vs. Board of Education case is that Linda Brown wasn't allowed into a public school for her skin color. The turn out was that schools could no longer deny colored children from attending. -
The Rev. George Lee
George Lee was killed for leading a voter-registration drive that would allow colored people to have their say in elections in Befzoni, Mississippi. -
Lamar Smith
He was murdered for organizing black voters in Brookhaven, Mississippi. -
Emmett Louis Till
He was murdered for merely speaking to a white women in Money, Mississippi. -
John Earl Reese
He was killed by night riders that disagreed with school improvements for colored children in Mayflower, Texas. -
Rosa Parks Arrested
Rosa Parks was arrested by the police for not leaving her seat so that a white civilian may sit. Due to her arrest, colored people rallied and boycotted busses. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
The colored citizens of Montgomery, Alabama boycotted the use of busses until they were given what they asked. -
Bus Segregation Ban
The Supreme Court ruled that busses were no longer allowed segregation on busses. -
Willie Edwards Jr.
He was killed by Klansmen in Montgomery, Alabama. -
Civil Rights Act of 1957
President Eisenhower passed the Civil Rights Act of 1957 which established the Civil Rights Section of the Justice Department and allowed the government to take action against segregation and/or discrimination against a group of people. It also made it difficult for people to stop others from voting. -
Events at Little Rock, Arkansas.
President Eisenhower ordered troops to enforce school desegregation as well as protect the colored students that are being attacked in Little Rock, Arkansas. This was needed as students of color were greeted with a mob of angry parents, students, and protestors. -
Mack Charles Parker
He was taken out of jail to be lynched in Poplarville, Mississippi. -
Greensboro Sit-In
Some black students staged a sit-in at a white only lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina. -
Bus Segregation Outlawed
The Supreme Court outlaws segregation in bus terminals. -
Freedom Riders Attacked
Freedom riders would ride busses across the country to protest the ruling for segregation in interstate busses. They were organized by CORE. These freedom riders were met with hostility and violence. At one point, a mob of 1000 attacked the buses and riders. -
Herbert Lee
A voter registration worker named Herbert Lee was killed by a white legislator in Liberty, Mississippi. -
Voter Registration Drive
Some civil rights groups joined forces to launch a voter registration. -
CPL. Roman Ducksworth Jr.
A man named Roman Ducksworth Jr. was taken from a bus by police in Taylorsville, Mississippi. -
James Meredith
A mob of 2000 students stood to block the way of the first colored student James Meredith from going to Ole Miss. John F. Kennedy sent many troops to aid and protect him. -
Paul Guinard
During the Ole Miss riot, the French reporter Paul Guinard was killed. -
William Lewis Moore
He did a one man march on segregation in Artalla, Alabama and was killed. -
Birmingham Police Brutality
Children in Birmingham were marching when police used dogs and fire hoses to attack and disperse them. -
George Wallas Segregation
Alabama Governor George Wallace stood in the doorway of a school house to stop the integration of colored and white students. -
Medgar Evers
Medgar Evers was a civil rights activist. He was killed after he got evidence and witnesses to decide the Emmitt Till murder case. -
March on Washington
Over 250,000 Americans marched on Washington to protest the unequal rights given to African Americans both in the political and economic sense. The "I have a dream..." speech was given by Martin Luther King Jr. -
Church Bombing
Four young colored girls were killed in a terrorist attack by racists during a church bombing in Birmingham. -
Virgil Lamar Ware
The young man Virgil Lamar Ware was killed during a surge of racist violence in Birmingham, Alabama. -
Poll Tax Outlawed
The tax on voting was removed so that the poor, which most colored and minority people qualified as, could vote. -
Louis Allen
Louis Allen was assassinated by racists because he was a witness to the killing of some civil rights workers. -
Rev. Bruce Klunder
Reverend Bruce Klunder was killed while protesting the construction of a segregated school in Cleveland, Ohio. -
Henry Dee and Charles Moore
Henry Dee and Charles Moore were both killed by Klansmen in Meadville, Mississippi. -
Freedom Summer
Freedom Summer brings together 1,000 young civil rights volunteers to Mississippi to help the cause. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
President Lyndon Johnson passed a civil rights law stating that people could not be denied employment based on race, color, gender, or other factor of that liking as well as ended segregation in public places. -
Lt. Col. Lemuel Penn
Lt. Colonel Lemuel Penn was killed by Klansmen while driving North in Colbert, Georgia. -
Jimmie Lee Jackson
Civil rights marcher Jimmie Jackson was killed by a state trooper in Marion, Alabama. -
Police Brutatilty in Selma
During the march on Selma, state troopers beat marchers on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama. -
Death During Selma March
During the march on Selma, reverend James Reeb was beaten to death. -
Viola Gregg Liuzzo
Viola was killed by Klansmen while marchers were being transported from Selma. -
March on Selma
The march on Selma was organized due to it being one of the most resistant places for black voting rights. The marchers were met with opposition from local and state authorities, but they eventually made it to Montgomery, their goal. -
Oneal Moore
Oneal, a black deputy, was killed by nightriders in Varnado, Louisiana. -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Congress passed the voting rights act of 1965. -
Willie Brewster
Willie Brewster was killed by nightriders in Anniston, Alabama. -
Jonathon Daniels
Jonathon Daniels was killed by a deputy in Hayneville, Alabama. -
Samuel Younge Jr.
Samuel, a student civil rights activist was killed in a dispute in Tuskegee, Alabama -
Vernon Dahmer
Vernon was a black community leader that was killed in a Klan bombing in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. -
Ben Chester White
Ben was killed by Klansmen in Natchez, Mississippi. -
Clarence Triggs
Clarence was slain by nightriders in Begalusa, Louisiana. -
Wharlest Jackson
Wharlest was a civil rights leader that was killed after receiving a promotion into a job that was considered a white person job. -
Benjamin Brown
Benjamin was a civil rights worker killed by policemen when they opened fire on protestors in Jackson, Mississippi. -
First Black Supreme Court Justice
Thursgood Marshall was a legal counsel for the NAACP before his became the first black Supreme Court Justice. This was monumental as it put an African American in the position to decide very important cases. -
Highway Patrolmen Open Fire
Three students named Samuel Hammond Jr., Delano Middleton, and Henry Smith were killed when highway patrolmen opened fire on protestors in South Carolina. -
Assassination of Dr. King
Earlier the day of the assassination of Dr. King, he had given a speech which seemed to imply he thought he'd die soon. He had said that he may not make it to the "promised land" with his people. A little after 6 pm, he was standing on his hotel room balcony when he was shot in the neck and rushed to the hospital. He had been the voice of the civil rights movement, and his death shocked and shook America's people.
