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Brown v. Board of Education is decided
Thurgood Marshall won in a major civil rights victory. The Supreme Court ruled that racial; segregation in public education facilities as unconstitutional.This case was brought up because of Lina Brown, a young African American girl who was denied admission to her local elementary school in Topeka, Kansas because she was black. -
Bus Boycott in Motgomery, Alabama
African Americans refused the ride city buses in Montgomery, Alabama to protest segregated seating from Dec. 5 1955 to Dec. 20, 1956.Started the day of Rosa Parks court hearing and lasted 381days. The Suppreme Court ultimately ordered to intergrate the bus system. -
Integration of Little Rock Central
9 black students,known as the Little Rock Nine, entered Central High School in Little Rock, Arkensas. They enter a school of 2,000 plus white students and was tourmented and teased while at school. -
James Meredith wins the right to attend 'Ole Miss
James Meredith was American civil rights movement figure, a writer, and a political adviser. After being moved by presedent Kenndys speech he applied to university of mississsippi and exersise his rights. -
Sit In at Woolworths in Mississippi
This sit in was know the most violent sit in to occur. Severl hundred people joined in the white mob and the mob eventually beat the group of three blacks sitting at the counter -
President Kennedy forces University of Alabama to desegregate
JFK federalized the national guard to desgregate the University of Alabama. The govoner promoted seggregation and called in state troopers to block off the enrollment office which was countered by JFK's national guard. -
Medgar Evers is Assassinated
In Jackson, Mississippi Medgar Evers, civil rights activist was shot dead in his driveway by Byron De La Beckwith. In life Evers worked with the NAACP and served in the Normandy Invasion. -
"I Have a Dream" speech is given by Dr. KIng
MLK delivered his speech at the Lincoln memorial in Washington DC. HIs speech outlined rights for blacks and rights for all people. And followed with the March on Washington -
Freedom Summer Project Begins
Freedom Summer was a voter registration project in Mississippi to set up voting booths and help blacks register to vote. It was durring that time that the KKK killed two white males and a black male and the town tried to cover up there dissaperience. -
Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman, & James Chaney are reported misssing in Mississippi
These Civil rights workers were setting up voting booths when members of the KKK killed them and hid their bodies. Members of the clan included people from the police department who tried to cover up the crime. -
De Facto Segregation and De Jure Segregation is Reconized
De facto segregation is segregation when a majority group agrees on a certain segregation. The black codes is an example of de facto segregation because the rules were not enforced by law but were taken seriously throughout the southern states
De jure segregation is segregation is forced by law. Signs that have blacks and whites sit on oppisite sides of the resturaunt and different drinking fountains. -
Malcolm X is assassinated
When Malcolm X left the Nation of Islam he was not well liked and received death threats. Malcolm X was shot 15 times after a speech he gave in the Audubon Ballroom in Harlem. The shooter, Talmadge Hayer, served 45 years in jail and was realesed in 2010. -
Voting Rights Act is passed
Gave blacks the equal right to vote. Before, in the south blacks were disgriminated and were products of violence when they tried to vote. Voting in the south rose from 6% to 59% in the south after the voting rights act was passed -
Black Panther Party emerges
The Black Panthers were a civil rights group who beleived that campaigning in non violent methods took too long. They used violence to get what they wanted. They stood for equality in education, civil rights, housing and employment and created a 10 point plan. -
Kerner Commission is established
Kerner Commission is established and is consisted of 11 members. It stood for civil disorders and in 1968 the commission made a report. The report urged intergration to legislation. It talked about creation of jobs, job training and decent housing for blacks. -
Dr. King is assassinated
Dr. Martin Luther King was standing on his balcony outside of Lorraine Motel in Memphis Tennessee when he was shot by a sniper in the head. After his death, the black community started riots in the street furious over Dr. King's death. The FBI found and arrested a suspect but many beleived that the FBI was in on the assasination and that the man they arrested was innocent.