-
Laws of Desegregation
Supreme Court outlaws
school segregation in Brown
v. Board of Education -
Period: to
Civil Rights Era
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Anti-Desegregation
White citizens council is
formed to resist desegregation -
Emmet Louis Till
Murdered for speaking to a white woman,
Money, Miss. -
Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks arrested for
refusing to give up her
seat on a bus to a white
man, Montgomery, Ala. -
Boycott
Montgomery bus
boycott begins -
Laws of Desegregation on Busses
Supreme Court bans
segregated seating on
Montgomery buses -
Civil Rights Act Passed
Congress passes first
Civil Rights Act since
Reconstruction -
School Desegregation in Little Rock
President Dwight D.
Eisenhower orders
federal troops to enforce
school desegregation,
Little Rock, Ark. -
The Lovings Are Married
Mildred Loving age 18, and Richard Loving age 24 are married after bearing their first child, they reside in Virginia where Interatial marriage is illigal -
The Arrest of the Lovings
Richard and Mildred Loving plead guilty as a result of the violation of miscegenation laws of Virginia in Caroline County Circuit Court on January 6, 1959. -
Whites only Table
Black students stage sit-in
at “whites only” lunch
counter, Greensboro, N.C. -
SNCC is Founded
Student Nonviolent
Coordinating Committee
(SNCC) is founded to promote youth involvement -
Bus Terminal Desegregation
Supreme Court outlaws
segregation in bus terminals -
UGA Desegregated
The University of Georgia
is desegregated after a
federal judge orders that two
African-American students
be admitted. White students
jeer, “two, four, six, eight, we
don’t want to integrate. -
Freedom Riders Attacked
Freedom Riders attacked
in Alabama while testing
compliance with bus
desegregation laws -
Fed. Marshals Protect Against Mob
Federal Marshals sent to
protect civil rights activists
threatened by a mob in
Montgomery, Ala. -
Civil Rights Groups Collaborate
Civil rights groups join
forces to launch voterregistration drive -
Riot at Ole Miss
Riots erupt when James
Meredith, a black student,
enrolls at Ole Miss
(University of Mississippi) -
Police Invade March
Birmingham police
attack marching
children with dogs
and fire hoses -
Alabama Governor Resists School Integration
Alabama governor
stands in schoolhouse door to stop
university integration -
Medgar Evers Assassinated
Civil rights leader
assassinated,
Jackson, Miss. -
March on washington
25,000 Americans march on
Washington for civil rights -
Four Girls Killed in Bombing
ADDIE MAE COLLINS, DENISE
MCNAIR, CAROLE ROBERTSON
& CYNTHIA WESLEY
Schoolgirls killed in bombing
of Sixteenth Street Baptist
Church, Birmingham, Ala -
Mildred Files Complaint about Laws
Mildred Loving after being removed from virginia for 25 years wrote a letter to Robert F. Kennedy and the American Civil Liberties Union disscussing the injustices at hand, a court case was put into effect in hopes to change the miscgenation laws of Virginia. The case took effect from October 28, 1964 to June 12, 1967 -
Constitiutions 24th Amendment
The 24th amendment to the
U.S. Constitution outlaws poll
tax in federal elections -
Civil Rights Workers Abducted by KKK
JAMES CHANEY, ANDREW GOODMAN
& MICHAEL SCHWERNER
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Civil rights workers abducted and
slain by klansmen, Philadelphia, Miss. -
Period: to
Timespan of Injustices in the Civil Rights Era
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1000 Civil Rights Volunteers
Freedom Summer brings
1,000 young civil rights
volunteers to Miss. -
President Signs Civil Rights Act
President Lyndon B. Johnson
signs Civil Rights Act of 1964 -
State Trooper Kills Civil Rights Marcher
JIMMIE LEE JACKSON
Civil rights marcher
killed by state trooper,
Marion, Ala. -
Black Marchers Beaten By Authorities
State troopers beat back
marchers at Edmund
Pettus Bridge, Selma, Ala. -
March Completed
Civil rights march from Selma
to Montgomery completed -
Congress Passes Voting Act
Congress passes Voting
Rights Act of 1965 -
The Court Rules in Favor of the Lovings Case
The case of the miscgenation laws in Virginia had finally come to a conclusion when the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the lovings over Virginia, The Anti-Miscgenation laws were then abolished in Virginia.
