Civil Rights

By Jackw.hour1

  • Brown v. Board of education

    This court case ment that discimination in schools is illigal and violated the equal protection clause. Unlike the previos case the was plessy v. Board of education that said seperate but equal facilities. This was caused because Linda Brown a student wasn't allowed in a school because of her black skin. This case ended with a win for blacks and it wasn't enforced to well.

  • George Lee killed

  • Lamar Smith Murdered

  • Emmett Louis Till Murdered

  • John Earl Reese Murdered

  • Rosa Parks Arrested

    Rosa Parks was commuting home from work on a thursday. Many people didn't really like to ride the bus becaus they thought the blacks in the back policy was to demanding. She sat near the front and a white man wanted the seat. She refused to get up and she got arrested and black people boycotted the busses causing the company to loose money.

  • Supreme court bans segregated seating on Montgomery buses

  • Willie Edwards Jr. Murdered by Klan

  • Congress passes civil rights act of 1957

    President eisenhower passed the law and the law created a civil rights commission and empowered prosecutors to obtain court injustifications.

  • President Eisenhower orders troops at Little Rock, Arkensas for desegregation in schools

    Nine black students we not allowed in school because governor put troops around in. President Eisenhower put frderal troops around protecting the students.

  • Mack Charles Parker lynched

  • Black students stage sit-in at white only lunch

  • Supreme court out laws segregation in bus terminals

  • Freedom Riders attacked

    The freedom riders rode round in public busses from D.C. and rode around in the south. CORE was behind starting the bus rides to show that segregated bus rides were unconstitutional. The bus was full of blacks and whites.

  • Herbert Lee Murdered

  • Cilvil rights groups join together to launch voter registration drive

  • CPL. Rdman Ducksworth Jr. killed by police

  • Riots over black student James Menedith enrolls at Ole Miss

    Riot occured because black student James Menedith enrolled in Ole Miss school. The overnment sent 31,000 troops to help stop the rioting.

  • Paul Guihard killed during Ole Miss riot

  • William Lewis Moore killed during one man march

  • Birmingharn police attack children with dogs and fire hoses

  • Alabama Governor George Wallace stands in school house door to stop university intergration

  • Medgar Evers civil rights leader assassinated Jackson, Mississippi

    Medgar Evers was a civil rights leader. Medgar Evers encuraged many african americans to vote. He was later killed in his driveway in Jackson, Mississippi.

  • 250,000 Americans march on Washignton for civil rights

    250.000 people marched on washington for jobs and freedom. While there Martain Luther King Jr. Gave the "I Have a Dream" speach.

  • Addie Mae Collins, Denise Mcnair, Carole Robertson, and Cynthia Wesley killed in bombong of Sixteenth street Baptist Church

  • Virgillamar Ware killed during racist violence

  • Poll tax outlawed in federal elections

  • Louis Allen Witness to murder of civil rights worker assassinated

  • THe Rev. Bruce Klunder killed protesting construction of segregated school

  • Henry Hezekiah Bee and Charles Eddie Moore killed by Klan

  • President Johnson signs Cilvil rights act

    President Johnson signed civil rights act. This ended segregation in public places and banned discrimination in employment.

  • Freedom Summer brings 1,000 young civil rights volunteers to mississippi

  • James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner abducted and killed by klan

  • Lemuel Penn Killed by Klan

  • Jimmie Lee Jackson civil rights marcher killed by Klan

  • State troopers beat back marchers at Edmund Pettus Bridge

  • The Rev. James Reeb march volunteer beaten to death in Selma, Alabama

    This march was so many black people could register to vote. Many angry white people tried to stop them. 300 people registered out of 15,000.

  • Thousands complete the Selma to Montgomery Voting Rights march

  • Viola Gregg Liuzzo Killed by Klan while transporting marchers

  • Oneal Moore Black deputy killed by Nightriders

  • Congress passes Voting act of 1965

  • Wille Brewster Killed by Nightriders

  • Jonathan Daniels Seminary student killed by deputy

  • Samuel Younge Jr. Student civil rights activist killed in dispute

  • Vernon Dahmer Black community leader killed in klan bombing

  • Ben Chesyer White killed by klansmen

  • Clarence Triggs killed by Nightriders

  • Wharlest Jackson civil rights leader killed after promotion to white job

  • Benjamin Brown civil rights worker killed when police fired on protesters

  • Thurgood Marshall sworn in as first black supreme court justice

    Before being a supreme he was a lawyer with the highest success rate in arguing. This was a huge moment for blacks showing that the fight is going somewhere.

  • Samuel Hammond Jr., Delano Middleton, Henry Smith students killed when highway patrolmen fire on protesters

  • THe Rev. Dr. Martain Luther King Jr. assassinated

    The king was shot while he was on his balcony in suite 306 at lorraine motel. He had recived many death threats and this one killed him. He was rushed to the hospital when he was considered dead at 7:05 pm. This was a huge imact because he was many peoples leader and hero.