civil rights timeline

By Braydon07

  • Supreme court outlaws

    School segregation in brown and board of education

  • Brown v. Board of education

    1.)What was the court case that allowed separate but equal facilities? The public school case.
    2.)what happened in Topeka kansas that started the case? There was a social affect on fabric.
    3.)What was the result of the case?

  • Montgomery bus

    Montgomery bus boycott begins

  • The rev,George Lee

    killed for leading voter-registationdrive Beizoni,Mississippi

  • Lamar Smith

    Murdered for speaking to a white woman Money,Mississippi

  • Emmett Louis Till

    Murdered for speaking to a white women Money,Mississippi

  • Jhon Earl reese

    slain ny nightriders opposed to school improvments Mayflower,Texas

  • Rosa parks

    Rosa parks arrested for refussing to give up her bus seat to a white man Montgomery,Alabama.

  • Supreme court

    Supreme court bans segregated seating on Montgomery buses

  • Willie Edwards Jr.

    killed by klansman Montgomery,Alabama.

  • Congress passes first civil right

    Congress passes first civil rights act since reconstuction.

  • President Eisenhower

    orders federal troops to enforce school desegregation in Little Rock,Arkansas

  • Mack charles parker

    taken from jail and lynched poplarvillie,Mississippi.

  • Black students stage

    Black students stage sit-in at 'whites only'' luch counter in Greerebero,North CXarolina.

  • supreme court

    supreme court outlaws segregation in bus terminals.

  • Freedom riders

    freedom riders at tacked in Alabama while testing complience with bus desegregation laws

  • Herbert Lee

    Voter registration worker killed by white legislator Liberty,Mississippi.

  • Civil rights group

    Civil rights groups join forces to launch voter registration drive.

  • CPL Roman

    Ducksworth taken from bus and killed by police Taylorsvillie,Mississippi.

  • Riots erupt

    Riots erupt when James Mendith,a black student,enrolls at Ole Miss.

  • Paul Guihard

    French reporter killed during Ole Miss riot Oxford,Mississippi.

  • William Lewis Moore

    Slain during one-man march against segregation Attallia,Alabama.

  • Birmingham Police

    Birmingham police attack marching children with dogs and fire hoses

  • Alabama govener

    Alabama govener George Wallace stands in schoolhouse door to stop university integration

  • Medgar Evers

    Civil rights leader assassinated Jackson,Mississippi.

  • March on Washington

    250,000 Americans march on washington for civil rights.

  • Addi Mae collens

    Denise Mcnair,Carole Robertson,Cynthia Wesley schoolgirls killed in bombing of sixteenth street Baptist church Birmingham ,Alabama

  • Virgil lamar Ware

    youth killed during wave of racist violence Birmingham,Alabama

  • Poll tax

    poll tax outlwaed in federal elections

  • Louis Allen

    witness to murder of civil rights worker assassinated Liberty,Mississippi.

  • Bruce Klunder

    Killed protesting construction of segregated school Cleveland,Ohio.

  • Henry Hezekiah Dee

    Henry Hezekiah Dee and Charles Eddie Moore killed by Klansmen Meadville,Mississippi.

  • Freedom Summer

    Freedom summer brings 1,000 young civil rights volunteers to Mississippi.

  • James Chaney

    James Chaney,Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner civil rights workers abducted and slain by Klansmen Philadelphia,Mississippi.

  • President Johnson

    President Johnson signs civil righs act of 1964

  • Lt,Col,Lemuel penn

    Lt,Col,Lemuel penn killed by Klansmen while driving north Calibert,Georgia.

  • Jimmie Lee Jackson

    Jimmie Lee Jackson civil rights marcher killed by state trooper Marian,Alabama.

  • State tropers

    State troopers beat back marchers at edmund pettus bridge Selma,Alabama.

  • The Rev

    The Rev, James Reeb march volunteer beaten to death Selma,Alabama.

  • Thousnds complete

    Thousznds complete the Selma to Montgomery voting rights march.

  • Viola Gregg Liuzzo

    Viola Gregg Liuzzo killed by KLansmen while transporting marchers Selma highway,Alabama.

  • Oneal Moore

    Oneal Moore black deputy killed by nightriders Vanado,Louisiana

  • Congress passes voting

    Congress passes voting righs act of 1965

  • Willie Brewster

    Willie Brewster killed by nightriders Anniston,Alabama.

  • Jonathan Daniels

    Seminary student killed by deputy Hayneville,Alabama

  • Samuel Younge Jr.

    Student civil rights activist killed in dispute Tuskegee ,Alabama

  • Vernon Dahmer

    black community leader killed in klan bombing Hattiesburg,Mississippi

  • Ben Chester White

    killed by klansmen Natchez,Mississippi.

  • Clarence Triggs

    Slain by nightriders begalusa,Louisiana

  • Wharlest Jackson

    civil rights leader killed after promotion to white job Natchez,Mississippi

  • Benjamin Brown

    Civil rights worker killed when police fired on protesters Jackson,Mississippi

  • Thurgood Marshall

    Sworn in as first black supreme court justice.

  • Samuel Hammond Jr

    Delano middletown Henry smith students killed when highway patrolmen fire on protesters Orangeburg,South Carolina

  • The rev

    Dr.Martin Luther King Jr,assainated Memphis,Tennesse

  • little rock

    there was a problem with racism and the president stopped it.

  • rosa park

    she changed civil rights with what she did on the bus.

  • civil rights act

    jhonson was the one who passed the law andit stated the landmark of peace.

  • attack of freedom riders

    civil right people who rode buses on interstate to mobs. Freedom riders would be against the white people. the freedom riders were african americans

  • James meredith

    when he tried to enroll riots started to happend and he had to escorted everywhere