Civil Rights Timeline

Brown v. Board of Education

May 17, 1954

1. Plessy v.v Ferguson

2.Brown bringing Segregation 3.The court handed down the case and said Declaring that separate educational facilities are inherently unequal, which sparked the Civil Rights Movement

Rosa Parks

Dec 1, 1955

1 Rosa did not give up her seat on the bus to a white man

1. The cops were then called on her immediately!

Montgomery Boycott Buses

Dec 5, 1955

1.Montgomery Bus Boycott 2.Montgomery, Alabama 3.This was when buses would stop running due to fighting between blacks and white on buses which would start riots and fights over, the freedom riders would later come into place over this.

Civil Rights Act

Sep 9, 1957

1. President Dwight D. Eisenhower

2.voting rights and free rights to be equal.

Little Rock, Arkansas

Sep 24, 1957

1.There was a bunch of violence and beatings at Central High School because of 9 school kids who were attending the school 2.The president sent in the national guard to protect the students the rest of the year.

Freedom Riders

May 14, 1961

1.freedom riders were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern united states in 1961 and following years to challenge the non enforcement of the united states supreme court decisions 2.CORE 3.Whites did join with most African Americans in the freedom riders

Herbert Lee

Sep 25, 1961

1.Herbert Lee 2.Liberty, Mississippi 3.This was when voter registration worker named Herbert Lee was killed by a white Legislator

James Meredith

Oct 1, 1962

1.Chaos broke out on the Ole Miss campus, with riots ending in two dead, hundreds wounded and many others arrested 2.Kennedy administration called out some 31,000 National Guardsmen and other federal forces to enforce order.

Medgar Evers

Jun 12, 1963

1. Medgar Evers was a civil rights activist who organized voter-registration efforts, demonstrations and boycotts of companies that practiced discrimination.

2.
In the driveway outside his home in Jackson, Mississippi, Medgar Evers is shot to death by white supremacist Byron De La Beckwith.

The March on Washington

Aug 28, 1963

1.Jobs and Freedom in the nation's capital. 2.I have a Dream speech by Martin Luther King JR

Civil Rights Act of 1964

Jul 2, 1964

1.President Lyndon Johnson

1. outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.

Jimmie Lee Jackson

Feb 26, 1965

1. Jimmie Lee Jackson

2.Marion, Alabama

1. This is when civil rights marcher named Jimmie Lee Jackson was killed by a KKK State Trooper

March to Selma

Mar 7, 1965

1.the focus of its efforts to register black voters in the South. 2.Beatings, unsupported protesting, violence was uprising

1. The result of the March gave blacks rights of registering to vote.

Vernon Dahmer

Jan 10, 1966

1.Vernon Dahmer 2.Hattiesburg, Mississippi

1. this was when a Black Community leader was killed by a KKK bombing

Wharlest Jackson

Feb 27, 1967

1.Wharlest Jackson 2.Natchez, Mississippi

1. This was when Civil Rights leader Wharlest Jackson gave a promotion to a white man, then was killed

Thurgood Marshall

Oct 2, 1967

1. a lawyer who was best known for his high success rate in arguing before the Supreme Court
2. Because it was a big step for black people that anything is possible

Assassination of Martin Luther King jr

Apr 4, 1968

1.Just after 6 p.m. King was standing on the second-floor balcony of the Lorraine Motel, where he and associates were staying, when a sniper’s bullet struck him in the neck.

1. After his Assassination it seemed to widen the rift between black and white Americans