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Supreme Court outlaws school segregation. Oliver Brown, in Topeka, a welder and world war II vetran was consolidated in the cases of 1952.
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The Rev. George Lee killed for leading voter-registration drive
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Lamar Smith murdered for organizing black voters
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Emmett Louis Till murdered for speaking to a white woman
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John Earl Reese Slain by nightriders opposed to school improvements.
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Rosa Parks arrested for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white man. She had to go to prison all because she wouldn't let someone sit in her spot.
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Montgomery bus boycott begins cause of Rosa Parks
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Supreme Court bans segregation seating on Montgomery buses.
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He was killed by Klansmen in Montgomery, Alabama.
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Congress pass the first civil rights act since reconstruction. It empowered fedaral prosecuters to obtain court injunctions against interference with the right to vote.
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President Eisenhower orders federal troops to enforce school desegregation in Arkansas. They had them send troops in to stop the bad things.
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He was taken from jail and lynched in Mississippi.
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Black students stage sit-in at "white only" lunch counter in Greensboro.
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The supreme court outlaws segregation in bus terminals. This was a good thing to do.
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They tested complience with bus desegregation laws. All were african american and this took place in Alabama. The freedom riders burnt a bus down.
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Voter registration worker killde by white legislator in Liberty, Mississippi.
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Civil rights grouos join forces to launch voter registration drive on april first.
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He was taken from a bus and killed by police in Taylorsville, MIssissippi.
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A riot erupts when James Meredith, a black sstudent, enrolls at Ole Miss. Riots started from this and the government tried to help calm things down.
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French reporter was killed during the Ole Miss riot in Oxford, Mississippi.
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Slain during one-man march against segregation Artalla, Alabama.
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The police in Birmingham attack marching children with dogs and fire hoses.
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George Wallace stands in a schoolhouse door at a univerity to stop segregation.
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Civil rights leader assassinated in Jackson, Mississippi.
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250,000 americans march on Washington for civil rights. They marched there for one famous speach. This speach was "I have a dream" spoke by Martin Luther King Jr. on August 28th, 1963
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Two school girls were killed in bombing of Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama.
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Youth killed during wavee of racist violence in Birmingham, Alabama.
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Poll tax outlawed in federal elections.
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Witness to murder of civil rights worker assasinated in Liberty, Mississippi.
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Killed protesting construction of segregated school in Cleveland Ohio
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They were killed by Klansmen in Meadville, Mississippi.
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Freedom Summer Brings 1,000 civil rights volunteers to Mississippi.
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Civil right workers were abducted and slain by Klansmen in Philadelphia, Mississippi.
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President Johnson signs the Civil right act of 1964. This act outlawed segregation based on race, religion, or sex.
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He was killed by Klansmen while driving north in Colbert Georgia.
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Civil rights marcher killed by state trooper in Marion, Alabama.
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State troopers beat back marchers at Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama.
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March volunteer was brutally beaten to death in Selma Alabama. His name was Rev James Reeb.
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Thousands of people complete the Selma to Montgomery voting rights march.
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Killed by klansmen while transporting marchers on Selma Highway, Alabama
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Black deputy killed by nightriders in Varnado, Louisiana.
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Congress passes voting rights act of 1965
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Killed by nightriders in Anniston, Alabama
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Seminary student killed by deputy in Hayneville, Alabama.
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Student civil rights activist killed in dispute in Tuskegee, Alabama.
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Black community leader killed in Klan bombing in Hattiesberg, Mississippi.
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He was killed by klansmen in Natchez Mississippi.
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He was slain by nightriders in Bagalusa, Louisiana.
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Civil rights leader killed after promotion to "white" job in Natchez< Mississippi.
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Civil rights worker killed when police fired on protesters in Jackson MIssissippi.
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Thurgood Marshall sworm in as first black supreme court justice.
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Students killed when highway patrolmen fire on protestors in Orangeburg, South Carolina.
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Assasinated at his hotel in Memphis Tenessee. He was a big part of giving the African Americans rights so when he was killed that made them angry that one man who did so much was just gone and never got to see the outcome
