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The court case that allowed separate but equal facilities is Brown vs. Board of Education. This was started after blacks were not receving the same education as whites. as a result, supreme court determinded that people should be "seperate but equal".
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Reverend George Lee is killed for leading voter-registration drive in Belzoni, Mississippi
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Lamar Smith is murdered for organizing black voters in Brockhaven, Mississippi
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Emmett Louis Till is murdered for speaking to a white woman in Money, Mississippi
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John Earl Reese is Slain by nightriders opposed to school improvements in Mayflower, Texas
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Rosa Parks is arrested for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama, By refusing to give up her seat, she began the Montgomery bus boycott, which eventually made Mongomery abolish their bus segregation law.
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sSarted by Rosa Parks, the Montgomery bus boycott begins.
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Supreme court bans segregated seating on Montgomery buses in Montgomery, Alabama.
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Willie Edwards Jr. is killed by Klansmen in Montgomery, Alabama.
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President Dwight D. Eisenhower passed the first civil rights act since reconstruction. This law established the Civil Rights Division, created the United States Civil Rights Commision, and gave power to prosecute people who denied another person's right to vote.
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After governor Orval Faubus prevented African Americans from going to Central High School, President Eisenhower ordered federal troops to enforce desegregation in schools in Little Rock, Arkansas.
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Mack Charles Parker is taken from jail and lynched in Poplarville, Mississippi.
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Black students stage sit-in at "whites only" lunch counter in Greerisboro, North Carolina.
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Supreme court outlaws segregation in bus terminals.
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Freedom Riders challenged segregation laws in the south, and refused to abide by them on the bus. An organization that helped organize the freedom riders was Congress of Racial Equality. Freedom riders were not purely limited to just African Americans, since some whites supported them as well. In Birmingham, Alabama, Freedom Riders were attacked by Klansman while testing compliance with bus desegregation laws.
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Voter registration worker Herbert Lee is killed by a white legislator in Liberty, Mississippi.
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Civil rights groups join forces to launch voter registration drive.
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Corporal Roman Ducksworth Jr was taken from a bus and killed by police in Tayforsville, Mississippi.
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Riots erupted when James Meredith, a black student, enrolled at Ole Miss. When Meredith tried to enroll at Ole Miss, he was accepted until the registsrar found out his race. The governmet became involved in the event by sending over 500 troops.
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Paul Guihard, a French reporter, was killed during the Ole Miss riot.
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William Moore was slain during the one-man march against segregation in Attalla, Alabama.
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Birmingham police attacked 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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Medger Evers was a civil rights actvist that set up boycotts of racist companies and was a secretary for the NAACP. After many death threats, Medger Evers was assassinated in the driveway of his home in Jackson, Mississippi.
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This March was planned to show the hidden stuggles African Americans faced every day. During this event, Martin Luther King's famous "I have A Dream" speech was unveiled.
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Addie Mae Collins, Denise Mcnair, Carole Robertson, and Cynthia Wesley were killed in the bombing of Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama.
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Virgil Lamar Ware, a youth, is killed during a wave of racist violence in Birmingham, Alabama
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Poll tax is outlawed in federal elections.
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Louis Allen, a witness to a murder of a civil rights worker, is murdered in Liberty, Mississippi.
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Reverend Bruce Klunder is killed while protesting the construction of a segregated school in Cleveland, Ohio.
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Henry Hezekiah Dee and Charles Eddie Moore are killed by Klansmen in Meadville, Mississippi.
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Frredom Summer brings 1,000 young civil rights volunteers to Mississippi.
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James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner, civil rights workers, are abducted and slain by Klansmen in Philadelphia, Mississippi.
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President Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
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Lieutenant Colonel Lemuel Penn is killed by Klansmen while driving north in Colbert, Georgia.
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Jimmie Lee Jackson, a civil rights marcher, is killed by a state trooper in Marion, Alabama.
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Reverend James Reeb, a march volunteer, is beaten to death in Selma, Alabama.
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Thousands complete the Selma to Montgomery Voting Rights March.
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Viola Gregg Liuzzo is killd by Klansmen while transporting marchers at Selma Highway, Alabama.
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Oneal Moore, a black deputy, is killed by nightriders in Varnado, Louisiana.
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Congress passes Voting Rights Act of 1965
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Willie Brewster is killed by nightriders in Anniston, Alabama.
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Jonathan Daniels, a seminary student, is killed by a deputy in Hayneville, Alabama.
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Samuel Young Jr, a student civil rights activist, is killed in a dispute in Tuskegee, Alabama
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Vernon Dahmer, a black community leader, is killed in a Klan bombing in Hattiesburg, Mississippi.
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Ben Chester White is killed by Klansmen in Natchez, Mississippi.
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Clarence Triggs is slain by nightriders in Bognlusa, Louisiana.
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Wharlest Jackson, a civil rights activist, is killed after a promotion to a 'white job' in Natchez, Mississippi.
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Benjamin Brown, a civil rights worker, is killed when police fired on protestors in Jackson, Mississippi.
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Before becoming a justice, Thurgood Marshall was the winning lawyer in the Brown vs. Board of Education case. This was a monumental event because it made African Americans "separate but equal".
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Samuel Hammond Jr., Delano Middleton, and Henry Smith are killed when highway patrolmen fire on protestors in Orangeburg, South Carolina.
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Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is killed on the balcony of his home in Memphis, Tennessee by James Earl Ray. This event had a big impact on whites and African Americans because this event sparked riots in over 100 cities, fueling the end to racism.
