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Supreme court outlaws school segregation in Brown v. Board of Education
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The court case that allowed separate but equal facilities was called Plessy v. Ferguson
Linda Brown not being able to attend a school five blocks from her home because she was black was what started the Brown V. Board of Education case.
The result of the case was, it created laws ending segregation in schools. -
killed for leading voter-registration drive
Belzoni,Mississippi -
Murdered for organizing black voters
Brockhaven,Mississippi -
Murdered for speaking to a white woman
Money, Mississippi -
Slain by nightriders opposed to school improvements
Mayflower, Texas -
Rosa Parks boarded a bus in Montgomery and sat near the middle.When the bus was full and a white man walked on and asked for her seat she refused She was then arrested for violating the Jim Crow Laws.
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arrested for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white man
Mongomery, Alabama -
boycott begins
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Supreme Court bans segregated seating on Montgomery buses
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Killed by klansmen
Montgomery, Alabama -
Congress passes first Civil Rights Act since reconstruction
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Dwight D. Eisenhower signed this act on September 9, 1957.This act gave the everyone the right to vote.
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orders federal troops to enforce school disegregation in Little Rock, Arkansas
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A group of nine black kids were invited to a school where they were beat up by whites when they entered the doors. Eisenhower sent troops to supervise the school doors.
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Taken from jail and lynched
Poplarville, Mississippi -
Black students stage sit in a "whites only" lunch counter in greensboro, North Carolina
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Supreme Court outlaws segregation in bus terminals
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Freedom Riders rode buses through the souoth to protest against segregation The congress of racial equality helped organize this. Whites joined too.
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Freedom Riders attacked in Alabama while testing compliance with bus desegregation laws
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Voter registration worker killed by white legislator
Liberty, Mississippi -
Civil Rights groups join forces to launch voter registration drive
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Taken from bus and killed by police
Taylorsville, Mississippi -
riots erupt when James Meredith, a black student enrolls at Ole Miss
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French reporter killed during Ole Miss riot
Oxford, Mississippi -
He was shot just after he enrolled at the school. The federal Governement enforeced laws to prevent this.
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Slain during one man march against segregation
Attalla, Alabama -
attack marching children with dogs and fire hoses
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George Wallace stands in a schoolhouse door to stop university segregation
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He was a civil rights activist who was involved in overturn of the segregation at Mississippi University. He was shot to death in his own drive way by Bryon De La Beckwith.
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Civil Rights leader assassinated
Jackson, Mississippi -
people marched for jobs and freedom in the nation's capital.Martin Luther King Jr.'s speech was delivered here.
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250,00 Americans march on Washington for Civil Rights
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schoolgirls killed in bombing of 16th Street Baptists Church
Birmingham, Alabama -
Youth Killed during wave of racist violence
Birmingham, Alabama -
poll tax outlawed in federal elections
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Witnesss to murder of civil rights worker assasinated
Liberty, Mississippi -
killed protesting construction of segregated school
Cleveland, Ohio -
killed by klansmen
Meadville, Mississippi -
brings 1,000 young civil rights volunteers to Mississippi
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civil rights workers abducted and slain by klansmen
Philadelphia, Mississippi -
Lyndon Johnson singed this act. It ended discrimination in public places.
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signs Civil Rights Act of 1964
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Killed by klansmen while driving north
Colbert, Georgia -
Civil Rights marcher killed by state trooper
Marian, Alabama -
They marched for civil rights. They were attacked after six blocks.
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marchers at Edmund Pettus Bridge
Selma, Alabama -
March volunteer beaten to death
Selma, Alabama -
thousads complete the Selma to Montgomery Voting Rights March
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Killed by klansmen while transporting marchers
Selma Highway, Alabama -
Black deputy killed by nightriders
Varnado, Louisiana -
Congress passes Voting Rights Act of 1965
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killed by nightriders
Anniston, Alabama -
Seminary student killed by deputy
Hayneville, Alabama -
Student civil rights activist killed in dispute
Tuskegee, Alabam -
Black community leader killed in klan bombing
Hattiesburg, Mississippi -
killed by klansmen
Natchez, Mississippi -
Slain by nightriders
Louisiana -
Civil Rights leader killed after promotion to 'white' job
Natchez, Mississippi -
Civil Rights worker killed when police fired on protesters
Jackson, Mississippi -
He was part of the NAACP. He was the first black.
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sworn in as first black supreme court justice
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students killed when highway patrolmen fire on protesters
Orangeburg, South Carolina -
He was asssassinated at a motel at the age of 39. He was rushred to the hospital but passsed away soon after. He changed the world by making it a more equal place.
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Assassinated
Memphis, Tennessee
