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Sepreme Court outlawas school segregation- Plessy v. Ferguson, Topeka declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional, "separate eduction facilities are inherently unequal."
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Killed for leading voter-registration drive in Belzoni, Mississippi.
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Murdered for organizing black voters in Brookhaven, Mississsippi.
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Murdered for speaking to a white woman in Money, Mississippi.
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Slain by neighbors opposed to school improvements in Mayflower, Texas.
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Arrested for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama. The result was that there was a riot and a protest.
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Montgomery bus boycott begins.
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Supreme court bans segregated seating on Montgomery buses.
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Killed by Klansmen in Montgomery, Alabama.
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Congress passed first civil rights act since reconstruction. Law was primarily a voting rights bill.
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President Eisenhower orders federal troops to enfource school desegregation in Little Rock, Arkansas. The government escorted them in and out of school to help keep them safe.
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Taken from jail and lynched in Poplarville, Mississippi.
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Black students stage sit-in at "whites only" lunch counter in Greereboro, North Carolina.
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Supreme court outlaws segregation in bus terminals.
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Freedom riders attacked in Alabama while testing compliance with bus segregation laws. SNCC helped organize and others joined in,
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Voter registration worker killed by white legislator in 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 policde in Taylorsville, Mississippi.
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Riots erupt when James Meredith, a black student, enrolls at Ole Miss.
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French reporters killed during Ole Miss riot in Oxford, Mississippi. The event was a flashpoint and he got shot but recovered after he got in.
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Slain during one-man march against segregation in Attalia, Alabama.
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Birmingham police attack marching children with dogs and fire hoses.
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Alabama Governor George Wallace stands in schoolhouse door to stop university integration.
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Civil rights leader assassinated in Jackson, Mississippi. Involved in efforts to overturn segragation at the University of Mississippi.
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250,000 Americans march on Washington for civil rights. For jobs and freedom, MLK speech "I have a dream" speech took place.
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Addie Mae Collins, Denise Mcnair, Carole Robertson, Cynthia Wesley were schoolgirls killed in bombing of sixteenth street baptist church in Birmingham, Alabama.
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Youth killed during wave or racist violence in Birmingham, Alabama.
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Poll tax outlawed in federal elections.
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Witness to murder of civil rights worker asassinated in Liberty, Mississippi.
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The rev. Bruce Klunder killed protesting construction of segregated school in Cleveland, Ohio.
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Killed by Klansmen in Meadville, Mississippi.
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Brings 1,000 young civil rights volunteers to Mississippi.
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Civil rights workers abducted and slain by Klansmen in Philadelphia, Mississippi. Passed by congress, basically gave people rights no matter what race or gender.
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President Johnson sighns Civil Rights Act of 1964.
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Killed by Klansmenwhile driving north in Colbert, Georgia.
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Civil rights marcher killed by state trooper in Marion, Alabama.
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Beat back marchers at Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama.
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The rev, James Reeb was a march volunteer beaten to death in Selma, Alabama. Americans wanteed rights to vote, marched 54-mile highway, many other marches started and fights broke out.
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Thousands complete the Selma to Montgomery Voting Rights March.
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Killed by Klansmen while transporting marchers in Selma Highway, Alabama.
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Black deputy killed by nightriders in Varnado, Louisiana.
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Voting Rights Act of 1965.
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Killed by nightriders in Anniston, Alabama.
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Seminary student killed by deputy in Hayneville, Alabama.
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Student civil rights activist killed in dispute in Tuskegee, Alabama.
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Black Community leader killde in Klan bombing in Hattiesburg, Mississippi.
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Killed by Klansmen in Natchez, Mississippi.
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Slain by nightriders in Bognlusa, Alabama.
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Civil rights leader killed after promotion to 'white' job in Natchez, Mississippi.
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Civil rights worker killed when police fired on protesters in Jackson, Mississippi.
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Sworn in as first black Supreme Court Justice. Was a lawyer, first african-american judge.
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Students killed when highway patrolmen fire on protesters in Orangeburg, South Carolina.
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The rev, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. assasinated in Memphis, Tennessee. The family thought it was conspiracy by government and it impacted the people because he was the first black pesident.
