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Brown vs Board Of Education
Supreme Court outlaws school segregation. United States Supreme Court case in which th court decieved state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional. Plessy v. Ferguson <img src="http://www.brownat50.org/images/HuntStepsPictLOC.jpg" alt="[Nettie Hunt Photo]"/> -
The Rev. George Lee: Killed
Killed for leading voter-regristration drive -
Lamar Smith: Killed
Murdered for organizing black voters -
Emmett Louis Till
Murdered for speaking to a white woman in Money, Mississippi -
JOhn Earl Reese: Killed
Slain by nightriders opposed to school improvements in Mayflower, Texas -
Rosa Parks: Arrested
She sat near the middle of the bus, just behind the 10 seats reserved for whites. Soon all of the seats in the bus were filled. When a white man entered the bus, the driver (following the standard practice of segregation) insisted that all four blacks sitting just behind the white section give up their seats so that the man could sit there. Mrs. Parks, who was an active member of the local NAACP, quietly refused to give up her seat.
Montgomery Alambama. -
Montgomey Bus
Montgomery bus boycott begins -
Surpreme Court bans segregation
Surpreme Court bans segregated seating on Montgomery buses -
Willie Edwards Jr.:Killed
Killed by Klansmen in Montgomery, Alabama -
President Eisenhower
President Eisenhower orders federal troops to enforce school desegregation.President Eisenhower signs the Civil Rights Act of 1957 into law on September 9, 1957. On September 9, 1957, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed into law the Civil Rights Act of 1957, the first federal civil rights legislation to be enacted since Reconstruction in Little Rock, Alabama -
Mack Charles Parker: Killed
Mack Charles Parker was taken from jail and lynched in Poplarvillie, MIssissippi -
Black Student Stage sit- in at the "white's only" lunch counter
Black Student Stage sit- in at the "white's only" lunch counter -
Supreme Court outlaws segregation
Supreme court outlaws segregation in bus terminals. -
Freedom Riders attacked in Alabama
Freedom Riders attacked in Alabama while testing compliance with bus desegregation laws. In 1961, the Freedom Riders set out for the Deep South to defy Jim Crow laws and call for change. They were met by hatred and violence — and local police often refused to intervene. But the Riders' efforts transformed the civil rights movement. -
Herbert Lee: Killed
Herbert Lee voter registration worker killed by white legislator in LIberty, Mississpi -
Cpl. Roman Ducksworth Jr.: Killed
CPL. ROMAN DUCKSWORTH JR. Was taken from the bus and was killed by the polica in Tayforsville, Mississipi -
Civil Rights
Civil rights groups join forces to launch voter registraton drive. President Eisenhower signs the Civil Rights Act of 1957 into law on September 9, 1957. On September 9, 1957, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed into law the Civil Rights Act of 1957, the first federal civil rights legislation to be enacted since Reconstruction. -
Riots erupt when James Menedith, a black student,
Riots erupt when James Menedith, a black student, erolls at Ole Miss. an African-American man named James Meredith attempted to enroll at the University of Mississippi. Chaos briefly broke out on the Ole Miss campus, with riots ending in two dead, hundreds wounded and many others arrested, after the Kennedy administration called out some 31,000 National Guardsmen and other federal forces to enforce order. -
Paul Guinhard: Killed
Paul Guinhard a French reporters killed during Ole MIss roit in Oxford, MIssissippi -
William Lewis Moore: Killed
Slain during one-man march against segregation in Antalla, Alabama -
Birmingham police attack
Birmingham police attack marching children with dogs and fire hoses -
Govenor Georhe Wallace
Alabama Govenor George Wallance stands in schoolhouse door to stop university integration -
Medgar Evers: Killed
Medgar Evers Civil rights leader assassinated in Jackson, MIssissippi -
Medgar Evers: Killed
Medgar Wiley Evers was an African-American civil rights activist from Mississippi involved in efforts to overturn segregation at the University of Mississippi. -
Americans march on Washington
250,000 Americans march on Washington for civil rights. March on Washington had several precedents. In the summer of 1941 A. Philip Randolph, founder of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, called for a march on Washington, D. C., to draw attention to the exclusion of African Americans from positions in the national defense industry. This job market had proven to be closed to blacks, despite the fact that it was growing to supply materials to the Allies in World War II. The threat of 100,000 -
Addie Mae Collins, Denise Mcnair...: Killed
Addie Collins, Denise Mcnair, Carole Robertson and Cythea Wesley were schoolgirls killed in bombing of Sixteen Street Bapist Church in Birmingham, Alabama -
Virgil Lamar Ware: Killed
Virgil Lamar Ware you killed during wave of racist violence in Birmingham, Alabama -
Poll tax
Poll Tax outlawed in federal elcetions -
Louis Allen
Louis Allen was a witness to murder of civil right worker assassinated in Liberty, Mississippi -
The Rev. Bruce Klunder: Killed
He was killed protesting construction of segregated schoo in Cleveland Ohio -
Henry Hezekiahdee and Charles Eddie Moore: Killed
Thery were killed by Klansmen in Meadville, Mississippi -
James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, Michael Schwerner
March on Washington had several precedents. In the summer of 1941 A. Philip Randolph, founder of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, called for a march on Washington, D. C., to draw attention to the exclusion of African Americans from positions in the national defense industry. This job market had proven to be closed to blacks, despite the fact that it was growing to supply materials to the Allies in World War II. The threat of 100,000 marchers in Washington, D.C., pushed President Franklin -
March to Selma
Martin Luther King led thousands of nonviolent demonstrators to the steps of the capitol in Montgomery, Alabama, after a 5-day, 54-mile march from Selma, Alabama, where local African Americans, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) had been campaigning for voting rights. King told the assembled crowd: ‘‘There never was a moment in American history more honorable and more inspiring than the pilgrimage of clergymen and laymen o
