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Supreme Court outlaws school segregation in Brown v. Board of Education.
i. Plessy v. Ferguson
ii. When colored childern in Topeka were denided access to white schools.
iii. When the court declared state laws saying separate public schools for black and white students were unconstitutional. -
The Rev. George Lee was killed for leading voter-registration drive.
Beizoni, Mississippi -
Murdered for organizing black voters.
Brookhaven, Mississippi. -
Emmet Louis Till was murdered for speaking to a white woman.
Money, Mississippi. -
Slain by nightriders opposed ro school improvements.
Mayflower, Texas. -
Arrested for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white man.
Montgomery, Alabama.
i. Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat, near the front of the bus, to a white man.
ii.She was arrested. -
Montgomery bus boycott begins.
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Supreme court bans segragated seating on Montgomery buses.
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Killed by Klansmen.
Montgomery, Alabama. -
Congress passes first civil rights act since reconstruction.
i. Congress.
ii. It gave people of color voting rights. -
President Eisenhower orders federal troops to enforce school desegregation on Little Rock, Arkansas.
i. The President ordered troops to enforce desegregation in schools.
ii. They sent out troops to protect the children. -
Taken from jail and lynched.
Poplarville, Mississippi. -
BLack students stage a 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 desegregation laws.
i. They were beaten badly and their bus was set on fire.
ii. A group called CORE and the Student NonViolent Coordinating Committee.
iii. Whites joined as well. -
Voter registration worker killed by white legislator.
Liberty, Mississippi. -
Civil rights groups join forces to launch voter registration drive.
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Taken from bus and killed by police.
Toyforsville, Mississippi. -
Riots eupt when he, a black student, enrolls at Ole Miss.
i. Riots erupted, trying to prevent him from going.
ii. Gaurded him as he went to school. -
French reporters killed during Ole Miss riot.
Oxford, Mississippi. -
Slain during one-man march against segregation.
Artalla, Alabama. -
Birmingham police attack marching children with dogs and fire hoses.
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Alabama Governer, George Wallace, stands in schoolhouse door to stop univeristy integragation.
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Civil rights leader assassinated.
Jackson, Mississippi.
i. An African-American civil rights activist from Mississippi.
ii. In his driveway, Medgar Evers was shot to death by Byron De La Beckwith. -
250,000 Americans march on Washington for civil rights.
i. For civil rights to black americans.
ii. The "I Have A Dream" speech. -
Addie Mae Collins, Denise Mcnair, Carole Robertson, Cynthia Wesley. They were killed in the bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church.
Birmingham, Alabama. -
Youth killed during wave of racist violence.
Birmingham, Alabama -
Poll tax outlawed in federal elections.
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Witness to murder of civil rights worker assassinated.
Liberty, Mississippi. -
Killed protecting construction of segregated school.
Cleveland, Ohio. -
Killed by Klansmen.
Meadville, Mississippi. -
Brings 1,000 youth civil rights volunteers to Mississippi.
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Civil rights workers abducted and slain by Klansmen.
Philadelphia, Mississippi. -
President Johnson signs Civil Rights Act of 1964.
i. President Johnson.
ii. Ended segregation in public places. -
Killed by Klansmen while driving north.
Colbert, Georgia. -
Civil Rights marcher killed by state trooper.
Marion, Alabama. -
At Edmund Pettus Bridge.
Selma, Alabama. -
March volunteer beaten to death.
Selma, Alabama. -
Thousands complete the Selma Montgomery Voting RIghts March.
i. It campaigned for voting rights.
ii. They faced a blockade of state troopers and local lawmen.
iii. Thousands completed the march, 2% of blacks got voting rights. -
Killed by Klansmen while transporting marchers.
Selma Highway, Alabama. -
Black deputy killed by nightriders.
Varnado, Louisiana. -
Congress passes Voting Rights Act of 1965.
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Killed by nightriders.
Anniston, Alabama. -
Seminary student killed by deputy.
Hayneville, Alabama. -
Student civil rights activist killed in dispute.
Tuskegee, Alabama. -
Black community leader killed in Klan bombing.
Hattiesbrag, Mississippi. -
Killed by Klansmen.
Natchez, Mississippi. -
Slain by nightriders.
Bogalusa, Louisiana. -
Civil rights leader killed after promotion to 'white' job.
Natchez, Mississippi. -
Civil rights worker killed when police fired on protesters.
Jackson, Mississippi. -
Thurgood Marshall sworn in as first black Supreme Court justice.
i. He was on the staff of the NAACP.
ii. Because no other black man or woman had been a Supreme Court Jusice. He could protect blacks inside the government. -
Students killed when highway patrolmen fire on protesters.
Orangeburg, South Carolina. -
Assassinated.
Memphis, Tennessee.
i. He was standing on his balcony when he was shot by James Earl Ray.
ii. Because he had a huge impact on many people.
