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Brown VS. Board of Education
The case arose due to a violation and then erpealment of the outcome of the case Plessey vs Fergison. The incident itself happened in Topeka Kansas after an african american named Linda Brown was not allowed to attend a multi-race school. After the case was brought to the Supreme Court, the final ruling was that scholl segregation would be no more -
Rev George Lee
Rev George Lee is Killed in a protest march -
Lamar Smith
LAmar Smith is muredered for organizing black voters -
Emmett Louis Till
Emmett Louis Till is killed for talking to a white woman. He was only 14 -
Jhon Earl Resse
jhon Earl Resse is killed in a drive-by shooting in a cafe -
Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks is arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white man in the front of a public bus. Her refusal in my opinion, was justified and it seems a little too harsh to arest a woman for sitting someplace -
The bus boycott
Four days after the arrest of Rosa Parks, most African AMericans in Montgomery boycott riding on public buses -
end of the bus boycott
Congress finally enacted a law to end segregation on the public buses -
Willie Edwards jr.
Willie Edwards jr was killed by members of the kkk -
New Reconstruction
Congress passes first civil rights law since post-civil war. The law stated that it was now illegal to make african americans pay poll taxes before voting -
Eisenhower reacts
Eisenhower sends federal troops to protect african american students in Little Rock -
Mack Charles Parker
Mack Charles parker was abducted from prision and lynched -
Greensbro sit-in
Black students sit at an all-white lunch counter until they are served -
Congress helps again
Congress makes Bus Segregation illegal -
Freedom Riders
The freedom riders were a group of civil rights activists that rode the public buses across multiple states to the south. Many organizations like ncaap helped give them a backbone. -
Herbet Lee
Vote registration worker killedby white legislator -
Joining together
Civil rights group workers and groups ban together to end segregation -
Roman Ducksworth
Roman Was Taken from a bus and killed by cops -
Ole Miss
James Meredith enrolls at the university of Mississippi, despite almost being turned down due to race. The Government had to send him an escort of us marshals to ensure his security. JFK also took control of the school board to ensur his security too -
Paul Gunard
French reporter Paul is killed during Ole Miss riot,resulting in the enrolment of James Meredith -
One-Man-March
William Lewis Moore was shot twice by an unknown assailent during a one-man-segregation march -
police brutality
Birmingham police attack young black protesters with dogs and fire hoses -
Medgar Evers
Medgar Evers was a civil rights activist and WW2 vetran. One day while he was getting out of his car and walking into his house, he was struck by a fatal shot. -
Crybaby Govenor
Alabama govenor George Wallace stands in the door of a school house to stop integration as a last ditch. -
March on Washinton
The purpose of the march was so African Americans would be able to get equal pay and jobs. At the Lincoin memorial, the famous "I Have a Dream" speech was delivered by Martin Luther King Jr. -
Birmingham Bombings
Multiple schoolgirls are killed in a church bombing -
Virgil Lamar Ware
Youth killed during mob violence -
End of Poll Taxes
Poll Taxes are outlawed -
Witnesses too?
Louis Allen, witness to murder of civil right worker is killed -
Rev Bruce Klunder
Rev Bruce Klunder is killed during a protest for the construction of a segregated school. -
Henery Hezekah Dee and Charles Eddie Moore
Henery Dee and Charles Moore are killed by kkk members -
James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner
are abducted and killed by klansmen -
Presedint Jhonson helps
In 1964, Lyndon B. Jhonson enacted a civil rights at which stated that states that no people of any race are to have inequal voting, housing, or public rights violated -
The army too?
Lt. Colnel Lemuel Penn is killed by a clansmen -
Freedom Summer
Freedom Summer brings 1,000 young civil rights volunteers to Mississippi -
Jimmie Lee Jackson
Civil rights marcher killed by state trooper -
Selma March
After a rigorus and challenging march from Slema to Montgomery, the African Americans are finallyable to vote. The whole plan of the Selma march was to march from Selma to Montgomery so that they could vote. The marchers face police and state troopers armed with dogs, tear gas, and fire hoses. Through it all, the marchers were able to get to Montgomery and vote. -
Viola Gregg Liuzzo
Viola Luzzo is killed by klansmen while transporting marchers -
Thanks again Congress
Congress passes 1965 voting act -
Willie Brewster
Willie Brewster is killed by nightriders -
Jhonathan Daniels is killed by a deputy
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Samuel Younge jr.
civil rights activist killed in a dispute -
Vernon Dahmer
Black community activist killed in bombing -
Ben Chester White killed by KKK
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Clarence Triggs killed by neighbors
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Wharlest Jackson killed after promotion to 'White' job
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Benjamin Brown killed by police during protest
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Thurgood Marshall
Thurgood Marshall was a laywer best known for supporting blacks in the court. His appwalment to the us supreme court is monumental because no black had ever had a rank like that before. -
Samuel Hammond jr, Delano Middleton, and Henery Smith are killed by cops in a protest
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Martin Luther King jr. is killed
In the saddest murder of the civil rights movement, activist and reverend Martin Luther King jr was killed in the lorraine hotel in Memphis after being shot from an angle which hit his spine and left cheek. His death caused many African Americans to start rioting and before the riots, mourning.
