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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.
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THe Rev. George Lee is killed from leading voter-registration drive belzoni Mississippi.
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Lamar Smith is murdered for organizing black voters in Brookhaven, Mississippi
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Emmetti Louis Till was murdere for speaking to a white women in Money Mississippi.
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Slain by nightriders opposed to school improvement in Mayflower, Texas.
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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.
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Because of Rosa Parks arrest a bus boycott begins in Mantgomery Alabama
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Supreme court bans segregated seating on Montgomery bus in Montgomery Alabama.
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Willie Edwards Jr. was killed by Klansmen in Montgomery Alabama
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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.
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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.
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Mack Charles Parker taken from jail and lynched in Pplarcille, Mississippi.
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Black students stage sit-in at "whits only" lunch counter in Grensboro, North Carolina.
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Supreme court outlaws segregation in bus terminals.
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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.
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Voter Registrstion worker killed by white legislator.
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CIvil rights group join forces to lanch voter registration drive.
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CPL. Roman Duchsworth Jr. is taken from bus and killed by police in Toyforsville, MIssissipps.
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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
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French reporter killed during Ole Miss riot in Oxford, Mississippi.
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William Lewis Moore was slain during one-man march against segregation in Antalla, Alabama.
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Birmingham police attack marching children with dogs and fire hoses.
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Alabama Governor George Wallancee stands in schoolhouse door to stop university integration.
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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.
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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.
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Addie Mae Collins. Denise Mcnair, Carole Robertson, Cynthis Wesley, were schoolgirls that were killed in bomding of Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham Alabama.
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Virgil Lamar Ware, wasa youth killed during wave of racist violence in Birmingham, Alabama.
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Pool tas outlawed in Federal eletions.
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Louis Allen, witness to murder of cili rights worker assassinated in Liberty, Mississsippi.
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The Rev. Bruce Klunder Killed protesting construction of segregatied shool in Cleveland, Ohio.
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Henry Hezekiah Dee & Charles Eddie Moore were killed by Klansmen in Meadville, Mississippi.
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President Lyndon B. Johnson passed these sets of Civil Rights. The law outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.
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Freedom Summer brings 1,000 young civi rights volunteers to Mississippi.
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Jamer Chaney, Andrew Goodman, Michael Schwerner were civil right workers that were abducted and clain by Klansmen in Philadelpha, Mississippi.
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Lt. Col. Lemuel Penn was killed by Klansmen while driving north in Cobert, Georgia.
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Jimmie Lee Jackson was a Civil Righs marcher killed by state trooper in Marian, Alabama.
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State troopers beat black marchers at Edmurid Peets Bridge in Selma, Alabama.
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The Rev. James Reeb was A march volunteer beaten to death in Selma, Alabama.
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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.
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Viola Gregg Liuzzo was killed by Klansmen while transporting marchers, in Selma Highway, Alabama
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Oneal Moore black dputy liked by nightriders in Varnada, Louisiana.
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Congress passes Voting Rights Act of 1965.
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Willie Brewster was killed by nightriders in Anniston Alabama.
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Seminary student killed by deputy in Hayneville Alabama.
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Samuel Young Jr. was a student civil rights activist killed in dispute Tuskegee, Alabama.
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Black community leader killed in Klan bombing in Mattiesbrag, Mississippi.
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Ben Chester White was killed by Klansmen in Natchez, Mississippi.
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Clarence Triggs was slain by nightrigers in Bagalusa, Louisiana.
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Wharlest Jackson was a civil rights leader that was killed after promotion to 'white job' in Natchez, Mississippi.
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Civil rights worker killed when police tired to protestors in Jackson, Mississippi.
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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.
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Samuel Hammond Jr, Deland Middleton, Henry Smith were students killed when highway patrolmen fire on protesters in Orangeburg, South Carolina.
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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.
