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In the previous cout case, Plessy vs. ferguson, segregation of blacks with seperate but equal facilities was ruled ok.The reason the Brown vs. Board of education case was started was because of a case in Topeaka Kansas. they ruled that it was ok for the school to segregate the black students. However, during the brown vs. board of education case, they ruled it unconstitutional to segregate schools.
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He was killed for registering blacks and himself to vote. His death occurred in Belzoni,Mississippi
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He was murdered because he organized black voters in Brookhaven, Mississippi.
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He was mrdered by a man for speaking to his wife, a white woman. This all occured in Money, MIssissippi.
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He was slain by nightriders that were against school improvements.
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She was arrested for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama. Rosa Parks was in her seat on a bus when a white man told her to move so vthat he could sit there. when she refused they put her in jail.
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The boycott began this date.
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The supreme court banned segregated seating on montgomery buses.
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Willie Edwards Jr. was killed by a klansmen in Montgomery, Alabama.
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Congress passed the first civil rights act since reconstruction. The act increased the protection of voting rights and laid the foundation of federal enforccement.
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President Eisenhower orders federal troops to enforce school desegregation in Little Rock, Arkansas. this was due to the integration of 9 African Americas at Central High. There were many protest by white students.that was when president Eisenhower sent in troops to escort the nine students in for their protection.
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Mack Charles Parker was taken from jail and lynched in Poplarville, Mississippi
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Several black students staged a sit-in at a "whites only" lunch counter. The sit-in occured in Greensboro, North Carolina.
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The supreme court outlawed segregation in bus terminals on December 5th, 1960
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Freedom riders were attacked in Alabama while testing compliance with bus segregation laws. the freedom riders rode interstate buses to test the supreme court ruling on segregated interstate travel. they included African Americans and Whites. Two main groups helped organize the freedom riders,The Congress of Racial Equality and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Comitte.
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Herbert Lee ( a voter registration worker) was killed by white legislator in Liberty, Mississippi.
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They joined forces to launch a voter registration drive.
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Corporal Roman Ducksworth Jr. was taken from a bus and killed by the police.
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Riots of white students broke out when James Meredith, a black student, enrolled into Ole Miss. President Kennedy called out about 31000 national guards men and other forces to return things back to order.
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Paul Guihard, a french reporter, was killed during an Ole Miss riot in Oxford, Mississippi.
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William Lewis Moore was slain during a one-man march against segregation in Attalla, Alabama.
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Birmingham police attack marching children with dogs and fire hoses.
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George Wallace ( governor of Alabama) stands in schoolhouse doors to stop university integration.
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Civil rights leder, Medgar Evers, was assassinated in Jaclkson, Mississippi. He became the first field secretary for the NAACP in Mississippi. He was shot in the back in his driveway in Jackson. He was then rushed to the hospital but died within a hour.
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About 250,000 Americans marched on washighton to urge Congress to pass civil rights legislation. When everyone got to Washington, Martin Luther King Jr. gave his famous "I have a dream" speeche.
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Addie Mae Collins, Denise Mcnair, Carole Robertson, and Cynthia Wesley were schoolgirls killed in a bombing of the sixteenth street Baptist Church in Birmingham Alabama.
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Virgil Lamar Ware Youth was killed during a wave of racist violence in Birmingham, Alabama.
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Poll taxes were outlawed in federal elections.
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The witness to a civil rights worker's murder, Louis Allen, was assassinated in Liberty, Mississippi.
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Reverend Bruce Klunder was killed protesting the construction of segregated schools in Cleaveland, Ohio.
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Henery Hezekiah Dee and Charles Eddir Moore were killed by klansmen in Meadville, Mississippi.
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Freedom Summer brings 1,000young civil rights volunteers to Mississippi.
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civil rights wrokers, James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner, were abducted and slain by klansmen in Philidalphia, Mississippi.
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President Johnson signs the Civil Rights act of 1964. the act outlawed any "really bad" forms of segregation against african Americans.
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Lt. Col. Lemuel Penn was killed by klansmen while driving north in Colbert, Georgia.
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Jimmie Lee Jackson was killed by a state trooper in Marion, Alabama.
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State troopers beat back marchers at Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama.
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Reverend James Reeb, a march volunteer, was beaten to death in Selma Alabama.
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Thousands complete the march from Selma to Montgomery march for voting rights. The reason why the march took place was to boycott the transit system because the blacks had to sit in the back. this ultimately made the Montgomery transit system. During the march some people were attacked by police. They often used dogs or fire hoses to attack the protestors.
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Viola Gregg Liuzzo was killed by klansmen while transporting marchers on the selma Highway in Alabama.
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Oneal Moore, a balack deputy, was killed by nightriders in Vernado, Louisiana.
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Congress passed the Voting rights act of 1965.
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Willie Brewster was killed by nightriders in Annistan, Alabama.
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Jonathan Daniels, a seminary student, was killed by a deputy in Hayneville, Alabama.
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Samuel Young Jr., a student civil rights activist, was killed in a dispute in Tuskegee, Alabama.
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Vernon Dahmer, a black commujnity leader, was killed in a klan bombing in Hattiesburg, Mississippi.
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Ben Chester White was killed by klansmen in Natchez, Mississippi.
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Clarence Triggs was slain by nightriders in Bogalusa, Louisiana.
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Civil rights leader, Wharlest Jackson, was slain after a promotion to a "white" job in Netchez, Mississippi.
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Civil rights worker, Benjamin Brown, was killed when polive fired on protestors in Jackson, Mississippi.
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Thurgood Marshall was sworn in as the first black supreme cout justice. Before becoming Supreme court Justice he was the first black U.S. solicitor general. This is significant because he was a black man in the court. He also helped win many cases.
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Samuel Hammond Jr. Delano Middleton, and Henry Smith were students that were killed when highway patroll men fired on protestors in Orangeburg, South Carolina.
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Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee. He was killed on his hotel balcony when a sniper shot him in the cheek. following this were riots of anger. The death had such a big impact because he inspired so many people and was an advocate for nonviolent protests but his death was violent.
