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The Supreme Court outlawed school segregation. It ruled a separate but equal public school for blacks and whites. Donald Murry wanted to go to a white people law school, but he could not because of the law. He said that the black law school wasn't as good as the white. This case ended in saying that having separate schools for blacks and whites was unconstitutional.
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Killed for leading voter-registration drive. Belzoni,Mississippi
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Murdered for organizing black voters. Brookhaven,Mississippi
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Murdered for speaking to a white women. Money,Mississippi
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Slain by nightriders opposed to school improvements. Mayflower,Mississippi
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Rosa Park was arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white man on the bus. She was sitting in the "black area" on the bus and all of the white seats were taken. This resulted in a bus boycott.
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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. Montgomery,Alabama
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Congress passes first civil rights act since reconstruction. It ensured that all Afrrican Americans had the right to vote. If anyne tried to stop people from regestering, they would be put on trail.
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President Eisenhower orders federal troops to enforce school desegregation in Little Rocl, Arkansas. A white mob gathered around Central High on the frist day of school not wanting the 9 black students to attend there.
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He was taken from jail and lynched. Poplarville, Mississippi
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Black students stage a sit-in at "whites only" lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina.
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Supreme court outlaws segregation in bus terminals
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Freedom Riders attacked in Alabama while testing compliance with bus desegregation laws. A group of 13 blacks and whites that launched the freedom rides, a series of bus ride through the American south. the Congress of Racial Equality helped organize them.
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Voter registration worker killed by a white legislator. Liberty, Mississippi
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Civil rights groups join forces to launch voter registration drive
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Taken from a bus and killed by police. Taylorsville, Mississippi
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Riots erupt when James Meredith, a black student, enrolls at Ole Miss. Meredith wrote to the US Justice Department asking for help. Mississippi governor says he wants to keep Ole Miss an all white school.
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Paul Guihard, french reporter was killed during the riots. Oxford, Mississippi
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Slain during one-man march against segregation. Attalla, Alabama
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Birmingham police attavk marching childrem with dogs and fire hoses.
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Alabama Governor George Wallace stands in school house door to stop university integration
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Civil rights leader assassinated. He organized voter-registration efforts, demonstrations and boycotts of companies that practiced discrimination.
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250,000 Americans marched on Washington for civil rights. MLK Jr. gave his famous "i had a dream" speech. the event was designed to shed light on the political and social challenges African Americans continued to face across the country.
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Addie Mae Collins, Denise McNair, Carole Robertson, and Cynthia Wesly were all school girls killed in the bombing of Sixteenth Street Baptist Church. Birmingham, Alabama
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Youth killed during wave of rasist violence. Birmingham, Alabama
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Witness to murder of civil rights worker assassinated. Liberty, Mississippi
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Killed Protesting construction of segregated schools, Cleveland, Ohio
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KIlled by Klansmen. Meadville, Mississippi
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it brings 1,000 young civil rights volunteers to Mississippi
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Civil rights workers abducted and slain by klasman. Philadelphia, Mississippi
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Presidents Johnson signs it. he provisions of this civil rights act forbade discrimination on the basis of sex as well as race in hiring, promoting, and firing.
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Killed by Klansmen while driving north. Colbert, Georgia
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Civil rights marcher killed by state trooper. Marion, Alabama
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State troopers beat back marchers at Edmund Pettus Bridge. Selma, Alabama
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March volunteer beaten to death. Selma, Alabama
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Thousands complete the Selma to Montgomery Voting Rights March.That March, protesters attempting to march from Selma to the state capital of Montgomery were met with violent resistance by state and local authorities.Congress passed the Voting Rights Act.
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KIlled by Klansmen while transporting marchers. SElam Highway,Alabama
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Black deputy killed by nightriders. Varnado, Louisiana
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Killed by night riders. Anniston, Alabama
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Seminary student killed by deputy. Hayneville, Alabama
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Student civil rights activist killed in dispute. Tuskegee, Alabama
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Black community leader killed in klan bombing
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Killed by klansmen
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Civil rights leader killed after promotion to 'white' job
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Civil rights worker killed when police fired on protesters. Jackson, Mississippi
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He was instrumental in ending legal segregation. It was monumental because he was the first black person to be a part of the government
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Students killed when highway patrolmen fired on protesters
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He was shot and killed. Protest broke out because of it. He was very inspirational and wanted segragation to end
