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Plessy v. Ferguson was the court case that allowed separate but equal facilities. In Topeka Kansas, a group of families challenged the segregation laws and tried to enroll their African American children in a white school but were declined. As a result of this, it became unconstituional to separate white and black students in school.
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Killed for leading voter-regestration drive
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Murdered for organizing black voters in Brookehaven, Mississippi
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Murdered for speaking to a white woman in Money, Mississippi
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Slain by nightriders opposed to school improvements in Mayflower, Texas
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Rosa Parks sat in the front seat of a public bus when they were supposed to go to back. When a white man tried to tell her to move, she said no. As a result of her refusal, she was sent to jail.
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Montgomery bus boycott begins
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Supreme court bans segregated seating on Montgomery buses
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Killed by klansmen in Montgomery, Alabama
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On August 29th of 1957, Dwight D. Eisenhower, President of the United States, signed the Civil Rights Act of 1957 which established the civil rights section in the justice department and ensured that there would be no voting interferences.
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Eisenhower orders federal troops to enforce desegregation in Little Rock, Arkansas.
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Taken from jail and lynched in Poplarville, Mississippi
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Black students stage a "sit-in" at "whites only" lunch counter in Greenboro, North Carolina.
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Supreme court outlaws segregation in bus terminals
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Freedom Riders rode around the U.S. protesting segregation of blacks and whites in public transportation. They were attacked in Alabama while testing the compliance with bus segregation laws.
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Voter regestration worker killed by white legislator in Liberty, Mississippi
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Civil rights groups join forces to launch voter registration drive
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Taken from bus and killed by police in Taylorsville, Mississippi
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James Meredith, an African-American, tried to enroll at Ole Miss college and was protested and met with segregation and rioting against his enrollment. The government stepped in to prohibit rioting overnight and prevent injuries and deaths.
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French reporter killed during Ole Miss riot
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Slain during one-man march against segregation in Attalla, Alabama
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Birmingham police attack marching children with dogs and fire hoses
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Alabama Governor Geore Wallace stands in schoolhouse door to stop university segregation
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Medgar Evars was an African American civil rights activist who worked to extinguish segregation at the University of Mississippi. After success, he was sadly assassinated like many others trying to do the same.
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The March On Washington was organized to request a civil rights bill, an end to racial segregation in schools and the creation of jobs for the unemployed. These wishes were delivered by the "I Have A Dream" speech by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
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Several school girls killed in bombing of Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama
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Youth killed during wave of racist violence in Birmingham, Alabama
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Witness to murder of civil rights worker assassinated in Liberty, Mississippi
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Killed protesting construction of segregated school in Cleveland, Ohio
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Killed by klansmen 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, Michael Schwerner were abducted and slain by Klansmen in Philadelphia, Mississippi
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President Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964
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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 Pettis Bridge in Selma, Alabama
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March volunteer beaten to death in Selma, Alabama
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The March To Selma in Alabama was part of the creation of the Voting Rights Movement. Along the way from Montgomery, they were beaten by state troopers and faced alot of segregation. As a result, President Lyndon Johnson called for African Americans to be protected from barriers that prevented them from voting.
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Killed by Klansmen while transporting marchers on Selma Highway, Alabama
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Black deputy killed by night riders 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
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Killed by Klansmen in Natchez, Mississippi
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Slain by nightriders in Bogalusa, Lousiana
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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
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Thurgood Marshall started as a lawyer arguing for cases such as Brown v. Board of Education before becoming the 1st Black Supreme Court Justice of the United States. This was monumental because it was the first major government position taken up by a black person, and also opened the gateway for more African Americans to get jobs in government as well.
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Samuel Hammond Jr., Delano Middleton, and Henry Smith were killed when highway patrolmen fired at the protestors in Orangeburg, South Carolina
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On April 4th of 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was shot in Memphis, Tennessee while sitting on his balcony at the Lorainne Hotel. The death of MLK brought a great loss of inspiration and perseverance among the U.S. as a whole, because he had inspired so many people on human rights and was just beginning to change the U.S. as a whole.
