Civil Rights Movement Ashley Pilon

Brown v Board of Education

May 17, 1954

1. Plessy v Ferguson
2. Linda Brown was denied admission to her neighborhood school her parents then sued the school board.
3. Segregation is public school was ruled unconstitutional

The Rev. George Lee killed

May 7, 1955

1. Rev. George Lee was killed
2. Belzoni Mississippi
3. When the sheriff stopped him from voting he reported it and began to receive death threats. He was later killed.

Emmett Till is killed

Aug 28, 1955

1. Emmett Till was killed
2. Money Mississippi
3. Emmett Till said hi to a white women and was later beaten and killed. The men who killed him went to trial but were founf innocent.

Rosa arrested for refusing to give up her bus seat.

Dec 1, 1955

1. A white person got onto the bus and told parks to give up her seat and stand.She refused and was later arrested for it.
2. Because she was arrested other African Americans began the bus boycott.

Civil Rights Act of 1957

Sep 9, 1957

1. Dwight D. Eisenhower
2. It protected the right of African Americans to vote.

Events at Little Rock,Arkansas

Sep 24, 1957

1. African Americans tried to enter an all white school and were met by an angry white mob.
2. Eisenhower sent 1,000 troops to Little Rock to protect the students. The troops escorted to students from class to class for the rest of the year.

Mack Charles Parker is killed

Apr 25, 1959

1. Mack Charles Baker was killed
2. Poplarville Mississippi
3. A mob came during the night and took Parker from his cell. The mob shot him tied weights onto him and threw him into the river.

Black students sit at whites only table

Feb 1, 1960

1.Black students sit at whites only table
2. Greeensboro North Carolina
3. Four black students sat down at an all white lunch counter and refused to give up their seats. The police were called but were not able to do anything. They stayed until closing and returned the next day.

Attack of the Freedom Riders

May 14, 1961

1. They rode segregated buses into southern towns to draw attention to racism. 2.CORE
2. Whites joined in too

James meredith enrolls at Ole Miss

Sep 30, 1962

1. White mobs protested his entry
2. Kennedy sent troops to escort him to class

Police attack marching children

May 3, 1963

1. The Birmingham Police attacked children who were marching.
2. Birmingham Alabama
3. Many kids left school to march for civil rights. Police arrived and responded by using dogs and water cannons and eventually arresting them.

Medgar Evers Assassination

Jun 12, 1963

1. He was a civil rights leader.
2. When he returned home from a integration meeting , he was shot a member of the Ku Klux Klan was suspected for the murder but was never charged.

The march on Washington

Aug 28, 1963

1. It was a political led by African Americans to shed light on their challenges. 2.Dr. MLK's I have a dream

Civil Rights Act of 1964

Jul 2, 1964

1. President Johnson
2. Gave government power to end segregation

March to Selma

Mar 25, 1965

1. The SCLC wanted to register black voters in the south
2. Local and state authorities violently resisted
3. The Voting rights Act Passed later that year.

Thurgood Marshal first black Supreme Courrt Justice

Oct 2, 1967

1. He was on the staff of the NAACP
2. It was a step toward ending segregation.

The Assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Apr 4, 1968

1. He was leading a march in Memphis Tennessee when he was shot on his balcony
2. African Americans looked up to him and whites saw how unfair this was because he was always peaceful.