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1.Plessy v. Ferguson
2.Parents were mad that the Board of Education would'nt let in their black children to a nicer white school so, they went to court in hopes to reverse its policy of racial segregation.
3. Coart declared state laws establishing separate public school to be unconstitutional -
The Rev. George Lee killed for leading voter-registration drive Beizoni, Mississippi.
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Murdered for organizing black voters
Brookhaven, Mississippi -
Murdered for speaking to a white woman.
Money, Mississippi -
Slain by nightriders opposed to school improvements
Mayflower, Texas -
- Rosa Parks was a 42 year old African American who worked as a seamstress. After work she got on a Montgomery bus to go home. Rosa sat in the middle of the bus and was in the seat right behind the 10 reserved ones for whites. But when a white man came on and there were no seats left he asked Rosa and three other blacks to give up their seats for one white man. She refused. 2.Arrested and convicted of violating the laws of segregation
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Montgomery bus boycott begins
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Supreme court bans segregted seating on Montgomery buses
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Killed by klansmen
Montgomery, Alabama -
- President Eisenhower sent it to congress who passed it
- established a civil rights section, established a federal civil rights commition, and empowered federal prosecuters to obtain court injunctions against the inference with the right to vote.
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1.President Eisenhower orders federal troops to enforce school desegregation.
2. Sent in troops so the mobs of angry parents could not get to them -
Mack Charles Parker was taken from jail and lynched.
Poplarville, Mississippi -
Black students stage sit-in at " whites only" lunch counter.
Greensboro, North Carolina -
Supreme court outlaws segregation in bus terminals
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- They were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses to the south and ruled that segregated buses were unconstitutional.
- Congress of racial equality (CORE)
- Both white and black
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Herbert Lee voter registration worker killed by white legislator.
Liberty, Mississippi -
Civil rights groups join forces to launch voter regestration drive
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CPL. Roman Ducksworth Jr. was taken from a bus and killed by police.
Tayforsville, Mississippi -
- Chaos breifly broke out on campus with riots ending in two dead, hundreds wounded and many others arrested.
- Kennedy had to send in some 31,000 National Gaurdsmen to enforce some order.
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Paul Ginard a French reporter was killed during the Ole Miss riot.
Oxford, Mississippi -
William was slain during one-man march against segregation.
Attalla, Alabama -
Birmingham police attack children with dogs and fire hoses.
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Alabama Governer George Wallace stands in schoolhouse door so stop university integration.
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- He was a NAACP field secretary and was a main target for those who opposed racial equality and desagragation.
- Evers was shot in the back in this driveway of his own home in Jackson, Mississippi
- He was a NAACP field secretary and was a main target for those who opposed racial equality and desagragation.
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- It was pressuring JFK for jobs and freedom in the nations capital.
- Martin Luthers " I have a Dream" speech
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Addie Mae Collins, Denise Mcnair, Caroline Robertson, Cynthia Wesley. Schoolgirls killed in bombing of Sixteenth street baptist church.
Birmingham, Alabama -
Virgil Lamar Ware youth killed during wave of racist violence.
Birmingham, Alabama -
Poll tax outlawed in federal elections
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Witness to murder of civil rights worker assassinated.
Liberty, Mississippi -
Rev. Bruce Klunder killed protesting construction of segregated schoo.
Ceveland, Ohio -
Henry Hezekeah Dee and Charles Eddie Moore killed by Klansmen.
Meadville, Mississippi -
Freedom Summer brings 1,000 young civil rights volunteers to Mississippi.
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James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, Michael Schwerner. Civil rights workers abducted and slain by klansmen.
Philadelphia, Mississippi -
- President Johnson
- Outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.
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Lt.Col. Lemuel Penn killed by klansmen while driving north.
Colbert, Georgia -
Jimmie Lee Jackson civil rights marcher killed by state trooper.
Marion, Alabama -
- They were going to march to the capital of Montgomery
- They were met with violent resistance by state and local authorities.
- The voting Rights Act was passed later that year
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Rev. James Reeb march volunteer beaten to death.
Selma, Alabama -
Killed by klansmen wwhile transporting marchers.
Selma highway, Alabama -
Thousands cmplete the Selma to Montgomery voting rights march.
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Oneal Moore black deputy killed by nightriders.
Varnado, Louisians -
Congerss passes the Voting rights act of 1965.
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Killed by nightriders.
Anniston, Alabama -
Jonathan Daniels seminary student killed by deputy.
Hayneville, Alabama -
Student civil rights activist killed in dispute.
Tuskegee, Alabama -
Black community leader killed in klan bombing.
Hattieburg, Mississippi -
Ben Chester White killed by klansmen.
Natchez, Mississippi -
Clarence Triggs slain by nightriders.
Begalusa, Louisiana -
Civil rights leader killed after promotion to "white" job.
Natchez, Mississippi -
Civil rights worker killed when police fired on protesters.
Jackson, Mississippi -
- Was a counsel member to the NAACP
- They were staring to give black people "white" men jobs
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Samuel Hammond Jr., Delano Middleton, Henry Smith. Students killed when highway patrolmen fired on protesters.
Orangeburg, South Carolina -
- King was standing on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel where a sniper shot him in the neck.
- Because he was the leader of the civil rights movement and without him segregation may have never changed.
