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The court case that allowed separrate but equal facilities was called the Plessy v. Ferguson. IN Topeka, Kansas a black student got denied from an all white school which claimed to go angainst the consitituion's equal protection clause because the black schools were not eaual to the white schools. The result of the Brown v. Board of education was the seperation between white and black schools and state laws declared creating separate schools was to be uncontitutional.
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The Rev. George Lee was killed for leading voter-regstration drive Belzoni, Mississippi
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Murdered for organizing black voters. Brookhaven, Mississippi
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Murdered for speaking to a white women Money, Mississippi
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Slain by nightriders opposed to school improvements Mayflower, Texas
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What happened on december 1st that changed history Rosa parks went on the Montgomery bus after work and sat near the middle of the bus after all the reserved white people seats. And the bus driver asked if all the black people could move back one more row because a white man needed a seat and Rosa simply refused to do so. And the result of her refusal to give up her seat she was arrested for violating the Jim Crow laws. And soon that started a boycot on the Montgomery buses.
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Supreme court bans segregated seating on Montgomery buses
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Wille Edward Jr. killed by Klansmen Montgomery, Alabama
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Who passed the Civil Act of 1957 was Dwight D. Eisenhower. The Act stated that it would protect the rights of African Americans and other minorites.
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What happened in Litle Rock, Arkansas was Orval Faubus the Governor at the time ordered the National Gaurd to not allow any African American to enroll in an all white school. The government responded by the President sending Army troops to the school and protecting the students trying to attened there.
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Mack Charles Parker taken from jail and lynched Poplarville, Mississippi
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black students stage sit-in at "whites only' lunch counter in Greersborg, North Carolina
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Supreme court outlaws segergation on bus terminals.
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The Freedom Riders fought against segergation. The (CORE) The Congress of Racial Equality hepled organize the Freedom Riders. Not only were African Americans Freedom Riders many White people joined too.
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Herbert Lee voter registration worker killed by white legslator Liberty, Mississippi
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Civil rights groups join forces to launch voter registration drive.
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CPL. Roman ducksworth Jr. Taken from bus and killed b police Taylorsville, Mississippi
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Paul Guihard french reporters killed during Ole miss riot Oxford, Mississippi
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When James Meredith tried to enroll at Ole Miss riots erupted and 31,000 National Graudsmen and more federal forcees were sent to enforce order.
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William Lewis Moore slain during one rain march against segergation Artalla, Alabama
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Brimingham police attack marching children with dogs and dire hoses
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Alabama Governor george Wailace stands in schoolhouse door to stop university intergration
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Medger Evers was a civil rights activist. It all started when Medger was denied from The University of Mississippi Law School. He then joined the NAACP. he soon became a feild secertary of the NAACP. And many people who were againsts him looked at him as a target and he was later shot and killed.
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The March on Washimgton happened because the African Americans needed to address that the political and social challenges they were facing at the time. The famous speech giving at Washington was the "I Have a Dream' speech.
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Virgil Lamar Ware youth killed during wave of racist violence Birmingham, Alabama
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Addie Mae Collins, Denise Mcnair, Carole Robertson, Cynthia Wesley Schoolgirls killed in bombing of sixteenth street Baptist Church Birmingham, Alabama
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Witness to murder of civil rights worker assassinated Liberty, Mississippi
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Killed by Klansman 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 Klansman Philadelphia, Mississippi
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President Lyndon B. Johnson signed The Civil Rights Act of 1964. This Act ended segregation in public places and banned discrimination due to race, color, religon, sex or national origin.
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Killed by Klansmen while driving north Colbert, Georgia
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Civil rights marcher killed by state trooper Marion, Alabama
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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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Killed by Klansmen while transporting marchers Selma highway, Alabama
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The march to Selma was organized to register black voters. During the march many troopers tried to stop them buy attacking the marchers and trying to create a blockade. the result of the march to Selma was Congress passed the Voting Rights Act.
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Killed protesting construction of segergated school Cleveland, Ohio
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Black deputy killed by nightriders Varnado, Louisiana
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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 killed in dispute Tuskegee, Alabama
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Black community leader killed in Klan bombing Hattiesburg, Mississippi
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killed by Klansmen Natchez, Mississippi
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Slain by nightriders Begalusa, Louisiana
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civil rights leader killed after promotins to "white" job Natchez, MIssissippi
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Civil rights worker killed when police fired on protesters Jackson, Mississippi
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Before Thurgood Marshall became a supreme court justice he was the cheif counsel for the National Association for the Advancement of colored people (NAACP). I think this was a monumental event because he was the first black Sumpreme court justice adn he helped make many decisons and he won more cases before the supreme court than any other American.
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Students killed when highway patrolmen fire on protesters Orangeburg, South Carolina
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Mrtin Luther King Jr. was on the balcony at his hotel and was shot in his jaw and severed his spinal cord. Many people started riots across the country after they found out he passed away he influenced many people and not only African Americans but White people to.
