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The court case that allowed seperate but equal facilities wasn Plessy v. Ferguson. The reason this case started was because a class action suit was was to be filed toward the Board of Education in Topeka Kansas.The result was to outlaw school segregation.
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The Rev. George Lee was killed because he lead voter-registration drive.
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Lamar Smith organized black voters and was killed for it.
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Emmett Till was killed because he tried to speak to a white woman.
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John Earl Reese was killed by people who were against improvement of schools.
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Rosa Parks was riding a bus after a long day when a white man demanded she get out of the seat for him. When she refused, she was arrested.
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A bus boycott in Montgomery started on this day.
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Segregated seating was banned by the Supreme court on Montgomery buses.
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Klansmen killed Willie Edwards Jr. in Montgomery, Alabama
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President Eisenhower passed the Civil Rights Act of 1957. This law states that all Americans have the right to vote.
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Mack Charles Parker was taken out of jail and killed.
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At a "whites only" lunch counter, black students had a sit-in.
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The Supreme Court banned segregation from any buses.
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The Congress of Racial Equality, which is a civil rights group, sent out Freedom Riders which were buses used to protest segregation. Freedom riders weren't just African Americans, they were Whites too.
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Herbert Lee, who was a voter registration worker was killed by a white legislator.
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Cvil rights groups launched a voter registration drive.
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Roman Ducksworth was killed by police after being taken from a bus.
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James Meredith tried to enroll in Ole Miss but riots erupted. The government came in to ensure the safety of James.
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Paul Guihard who was a French reporter was killed in the Ole Miss riot.
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William Lewis Moore was killed during a segregation march.
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Police in Birmingham attacked children with fire hoses and dogs.
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George Wallace who was the Governer of Alabama stopped university integration.
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The March's purpose was to show the challenges that Africans Americans faced. This was where Martin Lither King made his famous "I had a dream" speech.
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The schoolgirls Addie Mae Collins, Denise Mcnair, Carole Robertson, and Cynthia Wesley were killed in the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church bombing.
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Virgil Lamar Ware was killed during a racist violence wave.
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In federal elections, poll tax was outlawed.
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Louis Allen who witnessed a civil rights worker murder was killed.
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Rev. Bruce Klunder was killed while protesting.
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Henry Hezekiah and Charles Eddie Moore were killed by Klansmen
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1,000 young civil rights volunteers were recruited by Freedom SUmmer.
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James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner who were civil rights workers were kidnapped and killed.
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President Johnson passed the Civil rights law of 1964 which is what ends discrimination against race, color, reliion, sex, or national origin.
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Lemuel Penn was killed by Klansmen.
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Jimmie Lee Jackson who was a civil rights marcher was killed by a state trooper.
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Marchers were beat back by state troopers.
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A march volunteer was beaten to death.
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The Selma March was organized to get black voters in the south. The marchers faced violent resistance. The outcome led them to reach their goal.
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Viola was killed by Klansmen.
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Nightstanders killed a black officer.
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The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was passed by Congress
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Nighstanders killed Willie Brewster.
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Deputy killed seminary student.
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Student civil rights activist, Samuel Younge Jr, was killed
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Vernon Dahmer who was a black community leader is killed by Klan bombing.
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Klansmen kill Ben Chestner White.
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Nightriders kill Clarence Triggs.
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After promotion to a 'white' job, Wharlest Jackson, who was a civil rights worker was killed.
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Benjamin Brown is killed by police.
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Before becoming first Supreme Court justice, Thurgood was a lawyer. It was a large achievement for African Americans.
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Samuel Hammond Jr, Delano Middleton, and Henry Smith was killed by patrolmen.
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Martin Luther King was killed at the Lorraine Motel. It had a big impact on both whites and blacks because he was a civil rights worker who mad a change with his speech.
