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Brown v. Board of Education
In the Plessy v. Ferguson court case allowed seperate but equal facilities for blacks and whites. In Topeka Kansas a young girl was denied admission into the local elementary school because she was black. Similar cases were brought up as part of the Brown v. Board of Education. -
The Rev. George Lee
George pastored a Baptist in Belzoni, MS. He was killed for registering blacks in Humphrey's County to vote. -
Lamar Smith
A 63 year old farmer and World War II veteran was a voting rights activist and a member of the Regional Counsel of Negro Leadership. He was murder for organizing black voters. -
Emmett Louis Till
Emmett was a 14 year old African American who was flirting with a white woman. Four days later, two white men kidnapped Till, beat im and shot him in the head. -
John Earl Reese
He was murdered at the age of 16 in a cafe with his cousins Joyce Nelson, 13, and her sister Johnnie, 15. -
Rosa Parks
Rosa sat down on the bus in Mongomery, Alabama. She refused to give up her seat on the bus when a white man needed it, she got arrested. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
African Americans refused to ride city buses in Montgomery, Alabama, to protest segergated seating. -
Supreme Court bans segregrated seating
Laws requiring racial segregation on buses in Montgomery and throughout Alabama were declared unconstitutional. -
Willie Edwards Jr.
Members from the KKK had driven him to the Alabama River and pointed a gun at him, and told him to get oon the bridge and jump. He jumped off the bridge and fell into the water killing himself. -
Congress passes first civil rights act
Eisenhower signed this act into law. -
President Eisenhower gives orders to troops
Eisenhower sends troops to protect the students in Arkansas -
Mack Charles Parker
He was accused of raping a white pregnant woman. He was killed two days later. -
Black students sit-ni at "white only" lunch counter
Black college students sit down at "white only" lunch counter and more black students joined over the months. -
Supreme Court outlaws segregation in bus terminals
The Supreme Court banned segregation in bus terminals -
Herbert Lee
He had been a member of the NAACP since the early 1950s. When SNCC voting rights activists started working in Amite and Pike counties in the fall of 1961, Lee, a close friend of the Amite County NAACP branch chairman E.W. Steptoe, became involved, helping to transport the workers and orient them to the locale. -
Freedom Riders
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Civil Rights Group
Civil rights groups join forces to launch voter registration drive -
CPL. Roman Ducksworth Jr.
He was taken off the bus and killed by police -
James Meredith enrolls at Ole Miss
Roits began when James enrolled at Ole Miss -
Paul Guihard
French-British journalist for Agence France-Press. He was murdered in the 1962 riot at the University of Mississippi while covering the events surrounding James Meredith's attempts to enroll at the all-white university -
William Lewis Moore
Slain during one-mean march against segregation in Attalla, Alabama -
Birmingham Police
Police attack marching children with dogs and fire hoses in Birmingham. -
George Wallace
Alabama Governor stands in schoolhouse door to stop university integration -
Medgar Evers
Civil rights leader assassinated -
March on Washington
250,000 Americans march on Washington for civil rights. A political rally known as the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. -
Schoolgirls killed in bombing
Addie Mae Collins, Denise Mcnair, and Cynthia Wesley kille din the bombing of Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. -
Virgil Lamar Wase
Youth killed during wave of racist violence in Birmingham, Alabama. -
Poll Tax
Poll tax outlawed in federal elections. -
Louis Allen
Witness to murder of civil rights worker assassination in Liberty, Mississippi. -
The Rev. Bruce Klunder
Killed while prostesting contruction of segregated school in Clevland, Ohio. -
Henry Hezekiah Dee and Charles Eddie Moore
Killed by klansmen in Meadville, Mississippi. -
Freedom Summer
Freedom summer brings 1,000 young civil rights volunteers to Mississippi. -
James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner
Civil rights workers abducted and slain by klansmen Philadelphia, Mississippi. -
President Johnson
President Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964. -
LT. Col. Lemuel Penn
Killed by klansmen while driving north in Colbert, Georgia. -
Vernon Dahmer
Black community leader killed in klan bombing in Hattiesburg Mississippi. -
Jimmie Lee Jackson
Civil rights marcher killed by state trooper in Marion, Alabama. -
Edmund Pettus Bridge
State troopers beat back marchers at Edmund Pettus bridge in Selma, Alabama. -
The Rev. James Reeb
March volunteer beaten to death at Selma, Alabama. -
Selma March
Thousands complete the Selma march to Montgomery Voting Rights March. -
Viola Gregg Liuzzo
Killed by klansmen while transporting marchers in Selma Highway Alabama. -
Oneal Moore
Black deputy killed by nightriders in Varnado, Louisiana. -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Congress passes Voting Rights Act of 1965. -
Willie Brewster
Killed by nightriders in Anniston Alabama -
Jonathan Daniels
Seminary student killed by deputy in Hayneville, Alabama. -
Samuel Younge Jr.
Student civil rights activist killed in dispute in Tuskegee, Alabama. -
Vernon Dahmer
Black community leader killed in klan bombing in Hattiesburg Mississippi. -
Ben Chester White
Killed by klansmen in Natchez, Mississippi. -
Clarence Triggs
Slain by nightriders in Bagalusa, Louisiana. -
Wharlest Jackson
Civil rights leader killed after promotuon to 'white' job in Natchez Misssissippi. -
Benjamin Brown
Civil rights worker killed when police fired on protesters in Jackson Mississippi. -
Thurgood Marshall
Thurgood Marshall swom in as first black Supreme Court justice. -
Samuel Hammond Jr, Delano Middleton and Henery Smith
Students killed when highway patrolmen fire on protesters in Orangeburg South Carolina. -
The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee
