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The court case that allowed seperate but equal faciities was the 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson case. Linda Brown was denied admission to he local elementary school because she was black. The result was seperate but equal school facilities.
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Killed for leading voter- registration drive Beizoni, Mississippi
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Murdered for organizing black voters Brockhaven, Mississippi
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Murdered for speaking to a white woman Money, Mississippi
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Slain by nightriders opposed to school improvements Mayflower, Texas
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Rosa Parks a old black women was sitting on the white side of the bus and refused to give her seat up to white men. She was arrested. Montgomery, Alabama
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Mongomery bus boycott begins
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Supreme court bans segregated seating on Mongomery Busses
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Killed by Klansmen Montgomery, Alabama
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Congress passes first Civil Rights Act since reconstruction. Stated that all americans have the right to vote.
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The Govenor Orval Faubus ordered Arkansas National Guard to keep african americans out of central highschool. Government built a second school. Little Rock, Arkansas
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Taken from jail and lynched Poplarville, Mississippi
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Black students stage sit-in at "Whites only" lunch counter Greensboro, North Carolina
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Supreme Court outlaws segregation in bus terminals
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The freedom riders were a series of poloitical protests against segregation by blacks and whites who rode busses together in the south. The american civil rights movement supported the freedom rides.
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Voter registration worker killed by white legislator. LIberty, Mississippi
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Civil rights groups join forces to launch voter registration drive
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Taken from bus and killed by police. Taylorville, Mississippi
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Riots erupted after James Meredith tried to enroll at Ole Miss. The government got involved by sending in troops to put the campus in order. University, Mississippi
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French reporter killed during Ole Miss riot Oxford, Mississippi
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Slain during one-man march against segregation. Attala, Alabama
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Birmingham Police attack marching children with dogs and fire hoses. Birmingham, Alabama
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Alabama Governer
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Medgar Evers was an African-American civil rights activist from Mississippi involved in efforts to overturn segregation. Evers was shot while going into his house Jackson, Mississippi
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The march was to pressure the Kennedy administration into giving Stronger Civil rights to African Americans. The famous speech that was given by Martil Luther King JR. was his "I have a Dream" Speech. Washington DC
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Addie Mae Collins, Denise Mcnair, Caroline Robertson, Cynthia Wesley were schoolgirls killed in the bombing of Sixteenth Street Babtist Church Birmingham, Alabama
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Youth killed during wave of racist violence Birmingham, Alabama
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Poll Tax outlawed in federal elections.
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Witness to murder of civil rights worker assassination Liberty, Mississippi
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Killed protesting construction of segregated school Clevland, Ohio
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Killed by Klansmen Meadville, Mississippi
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Freedom Summer brings 1,000 young civil rights volunteers to Mississippi
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Civil rights workers abducted and slain by Klansmen Philidelphia, Mississippi
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President Johnson passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, The right stated an act to enforce the constitutional right to vote, to confer jurisdiction upon the district courts of the United States of America to provide injunctive relief against discrimination in public accommodations, to authorize the Attorney General to institute suits to protect constitutional rights in public facilities and public education, to extend the Commission on Civil Rights.
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Killed by Klansmen while driving north Cobert, Georgia
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Civil Rights marcher killed by State Trooper Marion, Alabama
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The Selma Marches were organized to help gain voting rights when they were obstructed. The opposition was the state troopers who were holding them back. The Selma Marches contributed to the passage of the Voting Rights Act.
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State Troopers beat back marchers at Edmund Pettus Bridge Selma, Alabama
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March Volunteer beaten to death Selma, Alabama
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Thousands Complete the Selma to Mongomery Voting Rights March
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Killed by Klansmen while transporting marchers Selma Highway, Alabama
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Black Deputy Killed by Nightriders Varnado, Lousiana
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Congress Passes voting rights act of 1965
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KIlled by Nightriders Anniston, Alabama
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Seminary student killed by deputy Hayneville, Alabama
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Student civil rights activist in dispute Taskege, Alabama
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Black community Leader killed in bombing Hattiesburg, Mississippi
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Killed By Klansmen Matchez, Mississippi
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Slain by night riders Bognlusa, Louisiana
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Civil Rights leader killed after promotion to 'White' Job Natchez, Mississippi
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Civil rights worker killed when police fired on protestor Jackson, Mississippi
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Marshall was a Lawyer before becoming a judge. This event was monumental because he was the first black person to be in the supreme court.
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Students killed when highway patrolmen fire on protestors Orangeberg, South Carolina
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During the assassination Martin was giving a speech called "I've Been To The Mountaintop". Because he was insporation on not to give up frighting for your rights.
