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Brown v. Board of Education
Supreme Court ourlaws school segregation in Brown v. Board of Education
-Plessy vs. Ferguson allowed seperate but equal facilities
-The segregation of students in public schools in Topeka Kansas violates the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment
-The Supreme Court declared that the segregation of students in public schools was unconstitutional -
The Rev. George Lee
The Rev. George Lee was killed for leading voter-registration drive in Belzoni, Mississippi -
Lamar Smith
Lamar Smith was murdered for organizing black voters in Brookhaven, Mississippi -
Emmett Louis Till
Emmett Louis Till was murdered for speaking to a white woman in Money, Mississippi -
John Earl Reese
John Earl Reese was slain by nightriders opposed to school improvements in Mayflower, Texas -
Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks arrested for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama
-Rosa was sitting near the front of the bus by the whites and when asked to move the the back, she refused the white man
-Rosa was arrested for Civil Disobedience and sparked the 381-day boycott of the Montgomery Bus System -
Montgomery Bus
Montgomery bus boycott begins -
Supreme Court
Supreme court bans segregated seating on Montgomery buses -
Willie Edwards Jr.
Willie Edwards Jr. was killed by Klansmen in Montgomery, Alabama -
Civil Rights Act
Congress passes the first civil rights act since recontruction
-President Eisenhower passed the law
-It was primarily a voting rights bill -
Events of Little Rock, Arkansas
President Eisenhower orders federal troops to enforce school desegregation in Little Rock, Arkansas
-Law enforcement was sent to schools to impliment desegregation
-They would stay with the students so they were not harmed physicaly or emotoinaly -
Mack Charles Parker
Mack Charles Parker was taken from jail and lynched in Pearl River County, Mississippi -
Sit-in
Black students stage a sit-in and a "whites only" lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina -
Bus Terminals
Supreme Court outlaws segregation in bus terminals -
Attack of the Freedom Riders
Freedom Riders attacked in Alabama while testing compliance with bus desegregation laws
-The CORE and the SNCC helped organize the freedom riders
-There were Blacks and Whites -
Herbert Lee
Herbert Lee was a voter registration worker and was killed by white legislator -
Voter Registration Drive
Civil rights groups join forces to launch voter registration drive -
CPL. Roman Ducksworth Jr.
CPL. Roman Ducksworth Jr. was taken from a bus and killed by police -
James Meredith
Riots erupt when James Meredith, a black student, enrolls at Ole Miss -
Paul Guihard
Paul Guihard, a French reporter, was killed during Ole Miss riot -
William Lewis Moore
William Lewis Moore was slain during one-man march against segregation -
Birmingham Police
Birmingham police attack marching children with dogs and fire hoses -
Alabama Governor
George Wallace stands in schoolhouse door to stop university integreation -
Medgar Evers Assassination
Medgar Evers, a civil rights leader, was assassinated in Jackson, Mississippi -
March on Washington
250,000 Americans march on Washington for civil rights
-MLK's I have a dream speach was held at the march -
Birmingham Bombing
Addie Maecollins, Denise Mcnair, Carole Robertson, Cynthia Wesley were the schoolgirls killed in the bombing of Sixteenth Street Baptist Church -
Virgil Lamar Ware
Youth killed during wave of racist violence -
Poll tax
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 Dee & Charles Eddie Moore
Killed by Klansmen -
Freedom Summer
Freedom Summer brings 1,000 young civil rights volunteers to Mississippi -
James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, Michael Schwerner
Civil rights workers abducted and slain by Klansmen -
Civil Rights act of 1964
President Johnson signs Civil Rights Act of 1964
-It outlawed discrimination between races -
LT. COL. Lemuel Penn
Killed by Klansmen while driving north -
Jimmie Lee Jackson
Civil Rights marcher killed by state trooper -
March to Selma
State Troopers beat back marchers at Edmund Pettus Bridge -
March to Selma
-The march was organized to try to get black voters registered in the South
-They were beaten back by state troopers and angry whites
-The Voting Rights Act wasput in place -
The Rev. James Reeb
March volunteer beaten to death -
Selma March
Thousands complete the selma to Montgomery Voting Rights march -
Viola Gregg Liuzzo
Killed by Klansmen while trasporting marchers -
Oneal Moore
Black deputy killed by nightriders -
Voting Rights
Congress passes Voting Rights Act of 1965 -
Willie 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 Chester White
Killed by Klansmen -
Clarence Triggs
Slain 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
-He was a lawyer in the Brown v. Board of Education case
-He was defying everything to do with racism at the time -
Samuel Hammond Jr., Delano Middleton, & Henry Smith
Students killed when highway partolmen fire on protesters -
The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee
-He was shot at his motel
-It showed how much civil rights meant to both blacks and whites
