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Brown v Boardof Education
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. -
The Rev. George Lee
Killed for leading voter-registration drive. Belzoni,Mississippi -
Lamar Smith
Murdered for organizing black voters. Brookhaven,Mississippi -
Emmett Louis Till
Murdered for speaking to a white women. Money,Mississippi -
John Earl Reese
Slain by nightriders opposed to school improvements. Mayflower,Mississippi -
Rosa Park Arrested
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. -
Bus Boycott
Montgomery bus boycott begins -
Supreme Courts bus seating
Supreme court bans segregated seating on Montgomery buses -
Willie Edwards Jr
Killed by Klansmen. Montgomery,Alabama -
First Civil Rights Act
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. -
Events in Little Rock, Arkansas
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. -
Mack Charles Parker
He was taken from jail and lynched. Poplarville, Mississippi -
Black students sit-in
Black students stage a sit-in at "whites only" lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina. -
Bus Terminals
Supreme court outlaws segregation in bus terminals -
Freedom riders
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. -
Herbert Lee
Voter registration worker killed by a white legislator. Liberty, Mississippi -
Voter Registration Drive
Civil rights groups join forces to launch voter registration drive -
CPL. Roman Ducksworth Jr.
Taken from a bus and killed by police. Taylorsville, Mississippi -
James Meredith
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. -
Ole Miss riots
Paul Guihard, french reporter was killed during the riots. Oxford, Mississippi -
William Lewis Moore
Slain during one-man march against segregation. Attalla, Alabama -
Marching Children
Birmingham police attavk marching childrem with dogs and fire hoses. -
Gerorge Wallace
Alabama Governor George Wallace stands in school house door to stop university integration -
Medgar Evers
Civil rights leader assassinated. He organized voter-registration efforts, demonstrations and boycotts of companies that practiced discrimination. -
March on Washington
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. -
School Bombing
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 -
Virgil Lamar Ware
Youth killed during wave of rasist violence. Birmingham, Alabama -
Poll Tax out Lawed in Federal elections
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Louis Allen
Witness to murder of civil rights worker assassinated. Liberty, Mississippi -
The Rev. Bruce Klunder
Killed Protesting construction of segregated schools, Cleveland, Ohio -
Henry Hezekiah Dee and Charles Eddie Moore
KIlled by Klansmen. Meadville, Mississippi -
Freedom Summer
it brings 1,000 young civil rights volunteers to Mississippi -
James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, Michael Schwerner
Civil rights workers abducted and slain by klasman. Philadelphia, Mississippi -
Civil Rights 1964
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. -
Lt. Col. Lemuel Penn
Killed by Klansmen while driving north. Colbert, Georgia -
Jimmie Lee Jackson
Civil rights marcher killed by state trooper. Marion, Alabama -
Edmund Pettus Bridge
State troopers beat back marchers at Edmund Pettus Bridge. Selma, Alabama -
Rev. James Reeb
March volunteer beaten to death. Selma, Alabama -
March to Selma
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. -
Viola Gregg Liuzzo
KIlled by Klansmen while transporting marchers. SElam Highway,Alabama -
Oneal Moore
Black deputy killed by nightriders. Varnado, Louisiana -
Congress passes Voting Rights Act of 1965
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Willie Brewster
Killed by night riders. Anniston, Alabama -
Jonathan Daniels
Seminary student killed by deputy. Hayneville, Alabama -
Samuel Younge Jr.
Student civil rights activist killed in dispute. Tuskegee, Alabama -
Vernon Dahmer
Black community leader killed in klan bombing -
Ben Chester White
Killed by klansmen -
Clarence Triggs slain by night riders
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Wharlest Jackson
Civil rights leader killed after promotion to 'white' job -
Benjamin Brown
Civil rights worker killed when police fired on protesters. Jackson, Mississippi -
Thurgood Marshall first black Supreme Court Justice
He was instrumental in ending legal segregation. It was monumental because he was the first black person to be a part of the government -
Samuel Hammond Jr., Delano Middleton, Henry Smith
Students killed when highway patrolmen fired on protesters -
MLK Jr. Assassination
He was shot and killed. Protest broke out because of it. He was very inspirational and wanted segragation to end
