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Reverend George Lee was killed for leading voter-regestration drive in Belzoni, Mississippi
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Lamar Smith was murdered for organizing black voters in Brookhaven, Mississippi
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Emmett Louis Till was murdered for speaking to a white woman in Money,Mississippi
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John Earl Reese was killed by nightriders opposed to school improvments in Mayflower, Texas
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Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama.
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Montgomery bus boycott begins
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Supreme court bans segregated seating on Montgomery buses.
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Willie Edwards Jr. was killed by Klansrren in Montgomery, Alabama.
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Plessy v. Ferguson allowed seperate but equal facilities. The segregation in schools started the Brown v. Board of Education case. The result of this case is that the supreme court outlaws school segregation.
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President Eisenhower signed the Civil Rights Act of 1957, the first civil rights act since reconstruction. This act started the civil rights movement.
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President Eisenhower orders ferderal troops to enforce school desegregation in Little Rock Arkansas. To protect the African American students, somes schools closed and in some towns the National Gaurd was called in.
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Mack Charles Parker was taken from jail and killed in Poparville, Mississippi.
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Black students staged a sit-in at "whites Only" lunch counter in Greensbora, North Carolina
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Supreme court outlaws segregation in but terminals.
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Freedom riders attacked in Alabama while testing compliance with bus desegregation laws. The Congress of Racial Equality and The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee helped organize the Freedom Rides. Freedom Riders were blacks and white civil rights activists. African-American Freedom Riders tried to use “whites-only” restrooms and lunch counters.
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Herbert Lee was a voter regestration worker and he was killed by white legislater in Liberty,Mississippi.
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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 the police in Taylorsville, Mississippi.
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Riots erupt when the black student James Menedith enroles at Ole Miss. The government got involved by sending troops to Mississippi.
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The french reporter, Paul Guihard, was killed during Ole Miss riot in Oxford, Mississippi.
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William Lewis Moore wasa killed during a one-man march against segregation in Attalla, Alabama.
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Birmingham police attacked marching children with dogs and fire hoses.
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Governer of Alabama, George Wallace stood in a schoolhouse door to stop university integragation.
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In the driveway outside his home, the civil rights leader, Medgar Evers, was shot to death in Jackson, Mississippi.
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250,000 Americans marched on Washington for civil rights, such as jobs and freedom in the U.S capital. The "I have a dream" speech was delivered by Martin Luther King Jr. at the March on Washington.
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Addie Mae Collins, Denise Mcnair, Carole Robertson, and Cynthia Wesley were killed in the bombiing of 16th street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama
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Vigil Lamar Ware Youth killed during a wave of racist violence in Birmingham, Alabama.
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Poll tax outlawed in federal elections.
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Louis Allen witnessed the murder of civil rights worker assasinated in Liberty, Mississippi.
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Reverend Bruce Klunder killed for protesting construction of the segregated school in Clevland, Ohio.
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Henry Hesekiahoee & Charles Eddie Moore killed by Klanarren in Meadville,Mississippi.
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Freedom Summer brings 1,000 young civil rights volunteers to Mississippi.
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James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner abducted and killed by Klansmen in Philadelphia, Mississippi.
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President Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964. This law 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 in Cabert, Georgia
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The civil rights marcher Jimmie Lee Jackson was killed by a state trooper in Marion, Alabama
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State troopers beat back marches at Edmun Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama.
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March volenteer, Reverend James Reeb, beaten to death in Selma, Alabama.
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Thousands of people complete the Selma to montgomery voting rights march. The marchers faced much violence. The result of this march was that blacks got voting rights.
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Viola Gregg Liuzza killed by Klansmen while transporting marchers on Selma highway in Alabama.
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Oneal Moore, a black Deputy, was killed by nightriders in Varnado, Louisiana.
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Congress passed the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
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Willie Brewster killed by nightriders in Anniston, Alabama.
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Semintary student,Johnathon Daniels killed by the deputy in Hayneville, Alabama.
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Samuel Youngw Jr. was a student civil rights activist killed in dispute in Taskegee,Alabama.
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Vermon Dahmer was a black community leader, he was killed by Klan bombing in Hattisberg, Mississippi.
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Ben Chester White killed by Klansmen in Natchez, Mississippi.
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Clarence Triggs killed by nightriders in Bogalusa, Louisiana.
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Wharlest Jackson, civil rights leader, killed after promotion to a 'white' job in Natchez, Mississippi.
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Civil rights worker,Benjamin Brown, killed when police fired at protesters in Jackson, Mississippi.
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Thurgood Marshall first black supreme court justice. This was a monumental event because he was the first black involved in the government. He worked for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
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Samuel Hammond Jr. ,Dleano Middleton, and Henry Smith killed when highway patrolmen fire at protesters in Orangeberg, South Caralina.
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Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. assasinated in Memphis, Tennessee. King was standing on the second-floor balcony of the motel he was staying at, when he was hit with a bullet in the neck. He was rushed to a hospital, and a hour later it was said that he was dead. His assassination led to a rush of anger among black Americans. This is because he was such a big leader and person who people looked up to.
