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Brown v. Board of Education
1.Plessy v. Ferguson
2.The ruling seperate but equal was seen and it was'nt accepted
3.Supreme court outlaws school segregation in Brown v. Board of Education -
Rev. George Lee
George Lee killed for leading voter registration line in Missisippi -
Lamar Smith
Lamar Smith murdered for organizing black voters in Missisippi -
Emmett Till
Emmett Till killed for speaking to a white woman in Missisippi -
John Reese
John Earl Reese slain by nightriders opposed to school improvements -
Rosa Parks
1.Rosa Parks arrested after refusing to give up bus seat
2.She was soon after arrested and it gave the Civil Rights Movement something to argue about -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
The Montgomery Bus Boycott begins -
Montgomery Bus Bans
The Supreme Court bans segregated seats on Montgomery busses -
Willie Edwards Jr.
Willie Edwards killed by Klansmen in Alabama -
Civil Rights Act of 1957
1.President Eisenhower signed it into effect
2.It stated that all Americans should vote including blacks. -
Little Rock
1.Nine African American students enrolled in a white school and riots erupted
2.The government sent federal troops to protect them. -
Mack Parker
Mack Charles Parker was taken from a jail and lynched in Missisippi -
Lunch Sit-in
Black students stage a Sit-in at a ''whites only'' lunch counter in North Carolina. -
Bus Segregation
Supreme Court outlaws segregation in the bus terminals -
Freedom Riders
1.They were civil rights activists who rode buses to stop unconstitutional bus laws.
2.The congress of racial equality(CORE) supported the Riders the most
3.Some anti-racist whites rode along too. -
Herbert Lee
Voter registration leader killed by white legislator in Mississippi -
Voter Registration
Civil rights groups join forces to launcha very large voter registration drive -
CPL. Roman Ducksworth Jr.`
Taken off a bus and killed by police in Mississippi -
James Meridith
1.Riots erupted across the city and campus.
2.Kennedy sent 500 U.S. Marshalls to escort James to Ole Miss -
Paul Guihard
Paul Guihard French reporter killed in the Ole Miss university riots -
William Moore
William Lewis Moore slain during one-man march against segregation in Alabama -
Marching Children
Birmingham police attack marching children with dogs and fire hoses. -
George Wallace
Alabama governer George Wallace stands in a schoolhouse door to stop school segregation -
Medgar Evers
1.A civil rights activist in Mississippi
2.Medgar got out of his car and was shot in the back, he was denied entry to the hospital based solely on his race. -
March on Washington
1.Martin Luther King led 250,000 to march on the Mall in Washington D.C
2.The "I have a dream" speech -
Birmingham School Bombing
Four schoolgirls killed in a church bombing in Alabama, they were targeted becuase they were African American -
Virgil Ware
Virgil Lamar Ware killed in a wave of racist violence in Alabama -
Poll Tax
Poll Tax outlawed in federal elections -
Louis Allen
Witness to a civil rights leader's assassination in Mississippi -
Bruce Klunder
Rev. Bruce Klunder killed during protests of segregated schooling in Ohio -
Henry Dee and Charles Moore
Killed by klansmen in Mississippi -
Freedom Summer
Freedom Summer brings 1,000 young civil rights leaders in Mississippi -
Civil Rights Leaders
Three leaders kidnapped and killed by klansmen in Mississippi -
Rights act of 1964
1.Lyndon Johnson
2.Abolished descrimination based on race or color -
Lemuel Penn
Lt. Col. Lemuel Penn killed by klansmen in Georgia -
Jimmie Jackson
Jimmie Lee Jackson killed by state trooper in Alabama. -
Pettus Bridge
State troopers beat back marchers on a bridge in Alabama -
James Reeb
Marcher beaten to death in Selma, Alabama -
March on Selma
1.To protest the inhumane things and killings happening in Alabama.
2.State troopers and klansmen
3.People were moved and it gave new power to civil rights race -
Viola Liuzzo
Viola Liuzzo killed by klansmen while marching -
Oneal Moore
Killed by nightriders in Louisiana -
Voting Act of 1965
Congress passed this act -
Willie Brewster
killed by nightriders in Alabama -
Johnathon Daniels
Killed by deputy in Alabama -
Samuel Younge
Activist killed in Alabama -
Vernon Dahmer
Killed in bombing in Mississippi -
Ben Chester White
Black Community leader killed in Mississippi -
Wharlest Jackson
Killed after promotion in Mississippi -
Benjamin Brown
Killed by police in Mississippi -
Thurgood Marshall
1.He was involved in the civil rights act
2.It broke the barrier for african americans in the government -
Students Killed
Students killed by patrol officers in South Carolina -
Martin Luther assasinated
1.He was in Memphis for a speech and was shot on his balcony to a hotel.
2.They realized something had to be done... and it had to be done soon.
