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Supreme Court outlaws school segregation. 1.) The court case that allowed saparate but equal facilities was Plessy vs. Ferguson.
2.) Most schools ignored Plessy's "equal" requirement which caused the Brown vs. Board case.
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The rev. George Lee is killed for leading voter-registration drive; Belzoni, Mississippi.
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Lamar Smith murdered for organizing black voters; Brookhaven, Mississippi.
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Emmett Louis Till murdered for speaking to a white woman; Money, Mississippi.
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John Earl Reese slain by nightriders opposed to school improvements; Mayflower, Texas
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Rosa Parks arrested for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white man; Montgomery, Alabama
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Supreme Court bans segregated seating on Montgomery buses.
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Willie Edwards JR. killed by Klansmen; Montgomery Alabama.
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Congress passes the first civil rights act since reconstruction. 1,) President Eisenhower passed the Civil Rights Act of 1957.
2.) This law stated that all African Americans were ensured the right to vote. -
President Eisenhower orders federal troops to enforce school desegregation; Little Rock, Arkansas 1.)Governor Orval Faubus ordered the Arkansas National Guard to prevent African American students from enrolling at Central High School.
2.) Eisenhower ordered federal troops to enforce school desegregation and proted the African American students enrolled in the school. -
Mack Charles Parker 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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Freedom Riders attacked in Alabama while testing compliance with bus segregation laws. 1.)Freedom Riders rode in interstate buses into the segregated southern United States to test the U.S. Supreme Court decision Boynton v. Virginia, (1960).
2.) Freedom rides were usually organized by the Congress of Racial Equality.
3.) Freedom Riders were just African American and often faced violence by whites. -
Herbert Lee, a voter registration worker, is killed by white legislator; 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 by police; Taylorsville, Mississippi.
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Riots erupt when James Meredith, a black student, enrolls at Ole Miss. 1.) Chaos briefly broke out on the Ole Miss campus, with riots ending in two dead, hundreds wounded and many others arrested.
2.),The Kennedy administration called upon federal forces to enforce order. -
Paul Guihard, a French reporter, killed during Ole Miss riot; Oxford, Mississippi
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William Lewis Moore slain during one-man march against segregation; Attalla, Alabama
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Birmingham police attack marching children with dogs and fire hoses.
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Alabama Governer, George Wallace, stands in schoolhouse door to stop university integration.
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Medgar Evers, a Civil Rights leader, is assassinated; Jackson, Mississippi 1.) Medgar Evers was an African American civil rights activist who was involved in trying to overturn segregation in the University of Mississippi.
2.) Medgar Evers was shot to death by white supremacist Byron De La Beckwith. -
250,000 Americans march on Washington for Civil Rights. 1.) The March on Washington had the purpose of protesting for jobs and freedom for African Americans.
2.) The "I Have A Dream" speech was delivered when everyone met in Washington. -
Schoolgirls, Addie Mae Collins, Denise McNair, Carole Robertson, Cynthia Wesley,killed in the bombing of Sixteenth Street Baptist Church; Birmingham, Alabama
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Virgil Lamar Ware, Youth killed during wave of racist violence; Birmingham, Alabama
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Poll taz outlawed in federal elections.
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Louis Allen witness to murder of civil rights worker assassinated; Liberty, Mississippi
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The REV. Bruce Kulnder likked while protesting the construction of segregated school; Cleveland, Ohio
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Henry Hezekiah Dee and Charles Eddie Moore are killed by klansmen; Meadville, Mississippi
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Freedom Summer brings 1,000 young civil rights volenteers to Mississippi
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Civil rights workers, James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, Michael Schwerner, abducted and slain by klansmen; Philadelphia, Mississippi
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President Johnson signs Civil Rights Act of 1964 1.) Lyndon B. Johnson passed the Civil rights Act of 1964.
2.) The Civil Rights Act of 1964 ended segregation in public places and banned employment discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin. -
LT.COL. Lemuel Penn is killed by klansmen while driving north; Colbert, Georgia
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Civil rights marcher, Jimmie Lee Jackson, killed by state trooper; Marion, Alabama
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State troopers beat black marchers at Edmund Bridge; Selma, Alabama
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The REV. James Reeb, a march volenteer, is beaten to death; Selma, Alabama
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Viola Gregg Liuzzo is killed by klansmen while transporting marchers; Selma Highway, Alabama
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Thousands complete the Selma to Montgomery Voting Rights March 1.)The march to Selma was organized to campaign for African American voting rights.
2.) The marchers were met with violent resistance by state and local authorities.
3.) The March helped raise awareness of the difficulty faced by black voters in the South, and the need for a Voting Rights Act, passed later that year. -
Oneal Moore, a black deputy is killed by nightriders; Varnado, Louisiana
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Congress passes the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
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Willie Brewster is killed by nightriders; Anniston, Alabama
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Jonathon Daniels, a seminary students, is killed by deputy; Hayneville, Alabama
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Samuel Younge JR., student civil rights activist killed in dispute; Tuskegee, Alabama
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Vernon Dahmer, Black community leader, is killed in klan bombing; Hattiesburg, Mississippi
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Ben Chester White is killed by klansmen; Natchez, Mississippi
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Clarence Triggs is slain by nightriders; Bogalusa, Louisiana
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Wharlest Jackson, a civil rights leader, is killed after promotion to 'White' job; Natchez, Mississippi
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Benjamin Brown, a civil rights worker, is killed when police tired on protesters; Jackson, Mississippi
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Thurgood Marshall is sworn in as the first black Supreme Court justice. 1.) Thurgood Marshall was on the legal counsel for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and helped destroy the Jim Crow Laws
2.) This is an important event because Jim Crow Laws were severely detrimental to African Americans and destrying these laws is a huge step in the right direction for civil rights, -
Three students, Samuel Hammond JR., Delano Middleton, and Henry Smith, are killed when highway patrolmen fire on protesters; Orangeburg, South Carolina
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The Reverand DR. Martin Luther King JR., is assassinated; Memphis, Tenessee 1.) Dr. King was in Memphis to support a sanitation workers’ strike and was on his way to dinner when a bullet struck him in the jaw and severed his spinal cord.
2.) MLK Jr's assassination widened the rift between black and white Americans, as many blacks saw King’s assassination as a rejection of their vigorous pursuit of equality through the nonviolent resistance he had championed
