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Brown v. Borad of Education
In Topeka Kansas a African American girl, named Linda Brown, was not allowed to go to the local elementary school because of her color. This is what started the Brown vs. Board of Education. The Supreme Court outlawed school sgregation through Brown vs. Board of Education. -
Rev. George Lee is Killed
THe Rev. George Lee is killed from leading voter-registration drive belzoni Mississippi. -
Lamar Smith
Lamar Smith is murdered for organizing black voters in Brookhaven, Mississippi -
Emmetti Louis Till
Emmetti Louis Till was murdere for speaking to a white women in Money Mississippi. -
John Earl Reese
Slain by nightriders opposed to school improvement in Mayflower, Texas. -
Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks was refusing to give up her seat in the front of the bus to a white man, in Montgomery Alabama. After not giving her seat to the white man she was arrested. -
Bus Boycott
Because of Rosa Parks arrest a bus boycott begins in Mantgomery Alabama -
Montgomery Bus Segregation
Supreme court bans segregated seating on Montgomery bus in Montgomery Alabama. -
Willie Edwards Jr.
Willie Edwards Jr. was killed by Klansmen in Montgomery Alabama -
First Civil Rights Act
President Dwight D. Eisenhower was the one to signed and passed this law. This law helped protect voting rights and gave the Civil RIghts more power in the federal govenment. -
Little Rock, Arkansas
Nine high school students that were planning to attend a school were faced with mob of white people on the first day of school. President Eisenhower ordered troops to enforce school desegregation in Little Rock, Arkansas. -
Mack Charles Parker
Mack Charles Parker taken from jail and lynched in Pplarcille, Mississippi. -
Black Sit-In
Black students stage sit-in at "whits only" lunch counter in Grensboro, North Carolina. -
Outlawing Segregation
Supreme court outlaws segregation in bus terminals. -
Freedom Riders
The Freedom Riders would sit on the bus in "white only seats" and just ride the bus, and not let any of the white people sit down. The Congress on Racial Equality (CORE) helped to organize the Freedom Riders. There were mostly African American Freedom RIders, but some whites did join in. -
Herbert Lee
Voter Registrstion worker killed by white legislator. -
Voter Registration Drive
CIvil rights group join forces to lanch voter registration drive. -
CPL. Roman Ducksworth Jr
CPL. Roman Duchsworth Jr. is taken from bus and killed by police in Toyforsville, MIssissipps. -
James Meredith
Riots erupt when James Meredith, a black student, enrolls at Ole MIss. The government got involed by sending fedural troops to control riots and protect James Meredith -
Paul Guihard
French reporter killed during Ole Miss riot in Oxford, Mississippi. -
William Lewis Moore
William Lewis Moore was slain during one-man march against segregation in Antalla, Alabama. -
Police Attack
Birmingham police attack marching children with dogs and fire hoses. -
George Wallace
Alabama Governor George Wallancee stands in schoolhouse door to stop university integration. -
Medgar Evers
Medgar Evers was a Civil Rights leader that was assassinated. He was shot to death in front of his house in Jackson Mississippi, in his driveway, by a white supremacist. -
March on Washington
250,000 Americans march on Washington for Civil Rights, jobs, and freedom. One of the leaders of this march was Martin Luther King, and he gave his famous "I Have a Dream" speech here. -
Schoolgirls Killed
Addie Mae Collins. Denise Mcnair, Carole Robertson, Cynthis Wesley, were schoolgirls that were killed in bomding of Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham Alabama. -
Virgillamar Ware
Virgil Lamar Ware, wasa youth killed during wave of racist violence in Birmingham, Alabama. -
Poll Tax
Pool tas outlawed in Federal eletions. -
Louis Allen
Louis Allen, witness to murder of cili rights worker assassinated in Liberty, Mississsippi. -
The Rev. Bruce Klunder
The Rev. Bruce Klunder Killed protesting construction of segregatied shool in Cleveland, Ohio. -
Henry Hezekiah Dee & Charles Eddie Moore
Henry Hezekiah Dee & Charles Eddie Moore were killed by Klansmen in Meadville, Mississippi. -
Civil Rights 1964
President Lyndon B. Johnson passed these sets of Civil Rights. The law outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. -
Freedom Summer
Freedom Summer brings 1,000 young civi rights volunteers to Mississippi. -
Civil Rights being Killed
Jamer Chaney, Andrew Goodman, Michael Schwerner were civil right workers that were abducted and clain by Klansmen in Philadelpha, Mississippi. -
Lemuel Penn
Lt. Col. Lemuel Penn was killed by Klansmen while driving north in Cobert, Georgia. -
Jimmie Lee Jackson
Jimmie Lee Jackson was a Civil Righs marcher killed by state trooper in Marian, Alabama. -
Selma March Starts
State troopers beat black marchers at Edmurid Peets Bridge in Selma, Alabama. -
Selma March
The Rev. James Reeb was A march volunteer beaten to death in Selma, Alabama. -
Selma March
The march was organized to get the blacks the right to vote in the south. The marchers were faced with state troopers beating and killing some people.The outcome was that it showed that there was still segeration in the south. -
Viola Gregg Liuzzo
Viola Gregg Liuzzo was killed by Klansmen while transporting marchers, in Selma Highway, Alabama -
Oneal Moore
Oneal Moore black dputy liked by nightriders in Varnada, Louisiana. -
Voting Rights Act
Congress passes Voting Rights Act of 1965. -
Willie Brewster
Willie Brewster was killed by nightriders in Anniston Alabama. -
Jonathan Daniels
Seminary student killed by deputy in Hayneville Alabama. -
Samuel Young Jr.
Samuel Young Jr. was a student civil rights activist killed in dispute Tuskegee, Alabama. -
Vernon Dahmer
Black community leader killed in Klan bombing in Mattiesbrag, Mississippi. -
Ben Chester White
Ben Chester White was killed by Klansmen in Natchez, Mississippi. -
Clarence Triggs
Clarence Triggs was slain by nightrigers in Bagalusa, Louisiana. -
Wharlest Jackson
Wharlest Jackson was a civil rights leader that was killed after promotion to 'white job' in Natchez, Mississippi. -
Bengamia Brown
Civil rights worker killed when police tired to protestors in Jackson, Mississippi. -
Thurgood Marshall
FIrst he was a lawer that fought in cases like Brown v. Board of Education, and other Supereme Court cases. Then he became the first black Supreme Court Justice. This was changing because it could show the south and others that blacks could have power. -
Students Killed
Samuel Hammond Jr, Deland Middleton, Henry Smith were students killed when highway patrolmen fire on protesters in Orangeburg, South Carolina. -
Dr. Martin Luther King Assassination
Martin Luther King was assassinated in front of his hotel that he was staying at in Memphis, Tennessee. His death had such a big impact on both whites and blacks because of what he did. He never really fought aganist anything other then what he knew to be right. And whites and blacks looked up to him for that.
