Civil Rights movement Kyle Bearer

Brown v. Board of Education

May 17, 1954

1. Plessy v. Ferguson
2. An African American girl wanted to go to an all white school
3. That segregated schools were unconstitutional

Emmett TIll is murdered

Aug 28, 1955

1. He was killed in Mississippi
2. 14 year old Emmett is visiting family when he is kidnapped, brutally beaten, shot, and dumped in the Tallahatchie River for allegedly whistling at a white woman.

Rosa parks arrested for refusing to give up her seat

Dec 1, 1955

1. She was tired from her work day and she sat down in the front of the bus in the nearest seat to rest, then a white man got on the bus and requested her seat and the law says she had to give it up but she did not.
2. She was arrested by the police, and sparked the bus boycott

Events at little rock, Arkansas

Sep 4, 1957

1. Nine African American students were being admitted into central high school and the governor sent in the national guard to bar them from the school as did the white mob that had gathered.
2. President Kennedy sent in the army to admit them into the school and protect them the rest of the school year.

civil rights act of 1957

Sep 9, 1957

1. President Eisenhower
2. It allowed everyone to of any race to vote equally and without segregation

North carolina sit in

Feb 1, 1960

1. it happened in Greensboro North Carolina
2. four black students from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College begin a sit-in at a segregated Woolworth's lunch counter. Although they are refused service, they are allowed to stay at the counter.

Attack of the freedom riders

May 4, 1961

1. Freedom riders would sit on a bus or a train until it arrived at its destination and basically protest by being on the bus or train or they would try to enter white only bathrooms or sit at whites only counters
   
2. CORE
3. Freedom riders were white and African American

James Meredith enrolls at Ole Miss

Oct 1, 1962

1. The Governor of Mississippi himself barred James from entering the enrollment offices
2. Kennedy sent in men of the national guard to protect Meredith and get him inside the school

Martin Luther arrested

Apr 16, 1963

1. Happened in Birmingham Alabama
2. Martin Luther King is arrested and jailed during anti-segregation protests in Birmingham

Medgar Evers Assassinated

Jun 12, 1963

1. Medgar Evers was a civil rights activist who organized voter registration efforts, demonstrations, and boycotts
2. he was shot in the back walking up to his house

the March on Washington

Aug 28, 1963

1. It was a demonstration for jobs and freedom in the nations capital
2. I have a dream
   

Bomb explodes

Sep 15, 1963

1. In Birmingham Alabama
2. four young girls are killed by a bomb that exploded at the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church

The civil rights act of 1964

Jul 2, 1964

1. president Lyndon Johnson
2. it ended segregation in all public places including schools and resultants

malcolm x assassination

Feb 21, 1965

1. He was assassinated in New York city
2. He was killed by rival black Muslims from a group he left and talked bad about in his speeches

march on Selma

Mar 7, 1965

1. Getting the right to vote
2. Beaten and sprayed with fire hoses
3. President Johnson called for a federal legislation of voting

Thurgood Marshall first black supreme court justice

Oct 2, 1967

1. a civil rights advocate
2. He was the first black person in a high ranking government position
   

Assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King

Apr 4, 1968

1. He was standing on the balcony of his hotel in Memphis when he was shot by a sniper, he was rushed to the hospital and was later pronounced dead
   
2. He was such an influential leader and it shocked everyone when they learned he died for his cause