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The Plessy vs. Ferguson denied relief under a seperate but equal doctrine. A bunch of students were not aloud in a public school. The court ruled that a quality education was needed for all children and school segregation was banned.
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Rev. George Lee was murdered for leading voter-registration drive in Belzoni, Mississippi
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Lamar Smith is murdered for orginizing black voters in Brookhaven, Mississippi
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Emmit Louis Till was murdered for speaking to a white woman in Money, Mississippi
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John Earl Reese was slain by nightriders opposed to school improvements in Montgomery, Alabama
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Rosa Parks broke the rules by sitting up front in a bus in Montgomery and then refused to give up her seat to a white man. As a result, she was takin away by police and aressted.
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Montgomery bus boycot begins
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Supreme court bans segregated seating on Montgomery buses
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Willie Edwards Jr. was murdered was killed by Klansman from Montgomery Alabama.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower passes the first Civil Rights Act that states that empowered federal prosecutors to obtain court injuctions against interference with the right to vote.
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In Little Rock Arkansas, 9 students enrolled at a white school and the whites hated them so much that they needed to be escorted by federal troops.
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Mack Charles Parker was taken from jail and lynched in Mississippi
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Black students stage sit-in at a "White Only" lunch counter in North Carolina
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Supreme court outlaws segregation in bus terminals
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The Freedom Riders were groups of Civil Activists that rode buses into segregated areas to protest. Not all members were black.
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Herbert Lee, worker at a voter resistration in Mississippi, killed by a white legislator
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Civil Rights groups join forces to launch voter registration drive
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Civil rights groups join forces to launch voter registration drive
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Roman Ducksworth Jr. was taken from a bus and killed by a police in Mississippi
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When black student, James Meriedith, enrolls at Ole Miss, riots break out causing 2 deaths and at least 100 injuries. When James Meriedith succesfuly enrolled at Ole Miss, the gov. gave 24 hour protection to him.
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French reporter Paul Guimard was killed during an Ole Miss riot
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William Lewis Moore was slain during a march against segregation in Alabama
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Birmingham police attack matching children with dogs and fire hoses
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Alabama govenor George Wallace stands in schoolhouse door to stop university integration
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Medgar Evers was a Civil Rights Activist, and was murdered while walking up to his house. His 2 children witnessed the murder
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250,000 people marched on Washington for jobs and freedom. Martin Luther King Jr. gave his "I Have a Dream" speech.
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Addie Mae Collins, Denise Mcnair, Carole Robertson, Cynthia Wesley, schoolgirls killed in bombing at the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church
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Virgil Lamar Ware, Youth killed during wave of racial violence in Alabama
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Poll Tax outlawed in federal election
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Louis Allen witnessed the murder of Civil Rights worker
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Bruce Klunder was killed protesting the construction of segregated schools
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Henrey Hezekeah Dee and Charles Eddie Moore killed by Klansman
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James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, Michael Schwerner, civil rights workers, abducted and slain by Klansman
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In 1964, Congressed passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964. This Act forbided discrimination on sex as well as race in hiring and firing in jobs.
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Lt. Col. Lemuel Penn was murdered by Klansman while driving North
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Civil Rights marcher killed by state trooper
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The March to Selma was orginized for a voting campaign. At first, not many oppositions were faced, but later, there were. police started breaking them up and a marcher was shot. As a result of the march, President Jhonson signed the Voting Rights Act.
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Thousands complete the Selma to Montgomery voting rights march
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Oneal Moore, Black deputy killed by nightriders
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Jonathan Daniels killed deputy
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Thurgood Marshall was the Chief Counsel for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. I think that it was a monumental event because it showed that people were taking steps to give blacks more rights.
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Martin Luther King Jr. was shot dead while standing on his balcony at a motel in Memphis Tennessee. This might have impacted many Africans to keep fighting to get their freedom. Also, it might have impacted whites to understand that Africans were just normal people and one of them just got murdered.
