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Outlawed segragation of schools Plessy vs Ferguson allowed separate but equal facilities. A school board rep. son was denied into a white school. The result was that segragatio of school was unconstitutional.
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He was killed for leading voter-registration drive in Belzoni Misississippi.
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He orgamized black voters in Brookhaven, Mississippi
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He was killed by nightriders who opposed to school improvments
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She refused to give up her seat to a white man. So she was aressted. It started boycots.
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Montgomery boycott began because of Rosa parks. She refused to give her seta up to a white person.
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Supreme court banned segragated setaing on montgomery buses
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Willie Edwards JR. was Killed by the KKK in Montgomery Alabama
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It was the first one passed since reconsturction. eisenhower passed this law. Took action to pass civil rights
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Eisenhower ordered federal troops to enforce desegragation in Little Rock, Arkansas where blacks were enrolled at white school.
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Mack Charles Parker was taken form jail and lynched in Mississippi
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The students staged the sit-in at a lunch counter in North Carolina
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The supreme court outlawed segragation in bus terminals
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They attacked in Alabama while testing the compliance with bus desegragation laws. They were supported by the copngress of racial equality. It was blacksa and whites
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A white voter killed the voter registration worker in Liberty, Mississippi.
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Civil Rights groups join forces to launch voter registration drive
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Police took CPL. Roman Ducksworth Jr. from a bus and killed him
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A black student enrolled at Ole Miss which started riots. There were riots so the gov. sent National Guard to restore order.
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A french reporter was killed during the riots in Oxford Mississippi
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He was killed in his one man march against segragation in Alabama
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Birmingham police attck marching children with dogs and fire hoses
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Alabama governor George Wallace stands in schoolhouse door to stop university integration
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Civil rights leader Medgar Evers assassinated in Jackson, Mississippi
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250000 americans march at washington for civil rights. The famous i have a dream speech was delivered by Martin Luther KIng
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Four School girls killed in bombing of sixteenth street baptist church in Birmingham Alabama
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Virgil Lamar Ware was killed by racists in Birminham Alabama
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Poll tax is outlawed in federal elections
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Louis Allen witnessed the mureder of civil rights worker in Liberty, Mississippi
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The Rev. Bruce Klunder killed while protesting construction of segragated schools in Cleveland Ohio
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Henry Hezekah Dee and Charles Eddie Moore killed by klansmen in Meadville, MIssissippi
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Freedom Summer Brings 1000 young civil rights volenteers to Mississippi
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Civil rights workers were abducted and slain by the KKK in Philidelphia, Mississippi
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President Johnson sign the civil rights act of 1964. Blacks and Whites were now equal.
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Lt. Col. Lemuel Penn killed by KKK while driving north in Georgia
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Jimmie Lee Jackson was killed by state trooper in Marion, Alabama
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TRoopers beat back marchers at Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama
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The Rev. James Reeb a march volunteer beaten to death in Selma Alabama
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Thousands complete the march to Montgomery for voting rights. They got the right to vote
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Viola Greggg LIuzzo killed by the KKK while transporting marchers across selma highway, Alabama
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Black deputy killed by nightriders in Lousiana
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Congress passed the voting act of 1965.
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Willie Brewster killed by nightriders
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Jonathan Daniels seminary student killed by deputy in Hayneville, Alabama
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Samuel Younge Jr. Student civil rights activist killed in Tuskegee, Alabama
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Black community leader killed in bombing in Mississippi
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Ben Chester White killed by the KKK in Natchez, Mississippi
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Clarence Triggs slain by nightriders in Louisiana
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Wharlest Jackson Civil rights leader killed after promotion to white job in Mississippi
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Benjamin Brown civil rights worker was killed by police in Jackson, Mississippi
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Thurgood Marshall sworn in as first black Supreme Court Justice. He won brown vs board of education case. This was first black ever on court justice.
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Samuel Hammond Jr, Delano Middleton, Henr Smith all killed by highway patrolmen in Orangeburg, South Carolina
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The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King assassinated in Memphis Tennesse Martin had helped so much with civil rights everybody really liked him.He was killed on his balcony.
