Civil Rights Timeline-2nd Hour History

Brown v. Board of Education

May 17, 1954

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.

Rev. George Lee

May 7, 1955

The Rev. George Lee was killed for leading voter-registration drive.
Beizoni, Mississippi

Lamar Smith

Aug 13, 1955

Murdered for organizing black voters.
Brookhaven, Mississippi.

Emmett Louis Till

Aug 13, 1955

Emmet Louis Till was murdered for speaking to a white woman.
Money, Mississippi.

John Earl Reese

Oct 22, 1955

Slain by nightriders opposed ro school improvements.
Mayflower, Texas.

Rosa Parks

Dec 1, 1955

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.

Bus Boycott

Dec 5, 1955

Montgomery bus boycott begins.

Segregation Seating Ban

Nov 13, 1956

Supreme court bans segragated seating on Montgomery buses.

Willie Edwards Jr.

Jan 23, 1957

Killed by Klansmen.
Montgomery, Alabama.

Civil Rights Act of 1957

Aug 29, 1957

Congress passes first civil rights act since reconstruction.
i. Congress.
ii. It gave people of color voting rights.

Events At Little Rock

Sep 24, 1957

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.

Mack Charles Parker

Apr 25, 1959

Taken from jail and lynched.
Poplarville, Mississippi.

Sit-in in North Carolina

Feb 1, 1960

BLack students stage a sit-in at "whites only" lunch counter in Greereboro, North Carolina.

Outlaw Bus Terminal Segregation

Dec 5, 1960

Supreme court outlaws segregation in bus terminals.

Attack of Freedom Riders

May 14, 1961

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.

Herbert Lee

Sep 25, 1961

Voter registration worker killed by white legislator.
Liberty, Mississippi.

Voter Registration Drive

Apr 1, 1962

Civil rights groups join forces to launch voter registration drive.

Cpl. Roman Docksworth Jr.

Apr 9, 1962

Taken from bus and killed by police.
Toyforsville, Mississippi.

James Meredith Enrolls at Ole Miss

Sep 30, 1962

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.

Paul Guihard

Sep 30, 1962

French reporters killed during Ole Miss riot.
Oxford, Mississippi.

Willian Lewis Moore

Apr 23, 1963

Slain during one-man march against segregation.
Artalla, Alabama.

Police Attack Children

May 3, 1963

Birmingham police attack marching children with dogs and fire hoses.

George Wallace

Jun 11, 1963

Alabama Governer, George Wallace, stands in schoolhouse door to stop univeristy integragation.

Medgar Evers

Jun 12, 1963

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.

March On Washington

Aug 28, 1963

250,000 Americans march on Washington for civil rights.
i. For civil rights to black americans.
ii. The "I Have A Dream" speech.

Schoolgirls Killed In Bombing

Sep 15, 1963

Addie Mae Collins, Denise Mcnair, Carole Robertson, Cynthia Wesley. They were killed in the bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church.
Birmingham, Alabama.

Virgil Lamar Ware

Sep 15, 1963

Youth killed during wave of racist violence.
Birmingham, Alabama

Poll Tax Outlaw

Jan 23, 1964

Poll tax outlawed in federal elections.

Louis Allen

Jan 31, 1964

Witness to murder of civil rights worker assassinated.
Liberty, Mississippi.

Rev. Bruce Klunder

Apr 7, 1964

Killed protecting construction of segregated school.
Cleveland, Ohio.

Henry Hezekiah Dee & Charels Eddie Moore

May 2, 1964

Killed by Klansmen.
Meadville, Mississippi.

Freedom Summer

Jun 20, 1964

Brings 1,000 youth civil rights volunteers to Mississippi.

James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, Michael Schwerner

Jun 21, 1964

Civil rights workers abducted and slain by Klansmen.
Philadelphia, Mississippi.

Civil Rights Act of 1964

Jul 2, 1964

President Johnson signs Civil Rights Act of 1964.
i. President Johnson.
ii. Ended segregation in public places.

Lt.Col. Lemuel Penn

Jul 11, 1964

Killed by Klansmen while driving north.
Colbert, Georgia.

Jimmie Lee Jackson

Feb 26, 1965

Civil Rights marcher killed by state trooper.
Marion, Alabama.

State Troopers Beat Back Marchers

Mar 7, 1965

At Edmund Pettus Bridge.
Selma, Alabama.

Rev. James Reeb

Mar 11, 1965

March volunteer beaten to death.
Selma, Alabama.

March To Selma

Mar 25, 1965

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.

Viola Gregg Liuzzo

Mar 25, 1965

Killed by Klansmen while transporting marchers.
Selma Highway, Alabama.

Oneal Moore

Jun 2, 1965

Black deputy killed by nightriders.
Varnado, Louisiana.

Voting Rights Act of 1965

Jul 9, 1965

Congress passes Voting Rights Act of 1965.

Willie Brewster

Jul 18, 1965

Killed by nightriders.
Anniston, Alabama.

Jonathan Daniels

Aug 20, 1965

Seminary student killed by deputy.
Hayneville, Alabama.

Samuel Younge Jr.

Jan 3, 1966

Student civil rights activist killed in dispute.
Tuskegee, Alabama.

Vernon Dahmer

Jan 10, 1966

Black community leader killed in Klan bombing.
Hattiesbrag, Mississippi.

Ben Chester White

Jun 10, 1966

Killed by Klansmen.
Natchez, Mississippi.

Clarence Triggs

Jul 30, 1966

Slain by nightriders.
Bogalusa, Louisiana.

Wharlest Jackson

Feb 27, 1967

Civil rights leader killed after promotion to 'white' job.
Natchez, Mississippi.

Benjamin Brown

May 12, 1967

Civil rights worker killed when police fired on protesters.
Jackson, Mississippi.

Thurgood Marshall First Black Supreme Court Justice

Oct 2, 1967

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.

Samuel Hammond Jr., Delano Middleton, Henry Smith.

Feb 8, 1968

Students killed when highway patrolmen fire on protesters.
Orangeburg, South Carolina.

Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Apr 4, 1968

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.