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The case that allowed seperate but equal facilities was Plessy V. Ferguson. Oliver Brown's Daughter had to walk six blocks to the bus to get to her black school, when she could just walk down the street to catch the bus to go to the white school. This was unfair and very rascist. The supreme court ruled in Brown's favor 9-0
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George Lee is killed for leading a voter registration drive in Belzoni, Mississippi
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Lamar Smith is murdered for organizing black voters in Brookhaven, Mississippi
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Emmett Louis Till is murdered for talking to a white woman in Money, Mississippi
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John Earl Reese is killed by nightriders who are opposed to school improvements in Mayflower, Texas
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Rosa Parks was riding the bus on December 1, 1955 and was asked to move to another seat so a white man could sit down. She refused and was arrested because she refused
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African Americans began to boycott the Montgomery Bus System after Rosa Parks was arrested
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The Supreme Court bans segregated seating on Montgomery Buses
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Willie Edwards Jr. is killed by Klansmen in Mongomery, Alabama
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Dwight D. Eisenhower passed this law and it created the Civil Rights Section in the Justice Department. This also created the Civil Rights Commission and empowered federal prosecutors to obtain court injunctions with anyone who interefered with someone's right to vote
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Eisenhower ordered Federal Troops to enforce school desegregation in Little Rock, Arkansas. Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus ordered the Arkansas National Guard to prevent African Americans from enrolling at an all white school. Eisenhower sent 1,000 Army paratroopers to control the Arkansas National Guard and keep peace in the high school in Little Rock.
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Mack Charles Parker is taken from jail and lynched in Poplarville, Mississippi.
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Black Students stage sit in at a whites only lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina
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The Supreme Court outlaws segregation in bus terminals
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The Freedom Riders test the compliance of bus desegregation laws. The Congress of Racial Equality and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee helped organize freedom rides. There were whites who joined this movement and they felt that they could do this without being too risky. This really is when white people begin to support integration.
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Herbert Lee was a voter registration worker that was killed by a white legislator in Liberty, Mississippi
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Civil Rights Groups join forces to launch a voter registration drive
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CPL. Roman Ducksworth Junior is taken from a bus and is killed by police in Taylorsville, Mississippi
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Riots Broke out at Ole Miss when James Meredith attempted to enroll there. Kennedy ordered national guardsmen and federal troops to keep peace at Ole Miss
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Paul Guihard, a French reporter is killed during the Ole Miss riot in Oxford, Mississippi
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William Lewis Moore is slain during one-man march against segregation in Attalla, Alabama
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Birmingham police attack marching children with dogs and fire hoses
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Alabama Governor George Wallace stands in schoolhouse door to stop university integration
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Medgar Evans was a civil rights leader that was assassinated. He worked for the NAACP as a voter registration organizer. He became a high profile member of the NAACP which made him a target. He was shot in the back at his home in Jackson.
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Americans wanted Civil Rights so 250,000 of them went to Washington to protest Civil Rights issues. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his I have a Dream speech here.
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Addie Mae Collins, Denise McNair, Carole Robertson, and Cynthia Wesley are killed in the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham, Alabama
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Virgil Lamar Ware is killed during a racist wave of violence in Birmingham, Alabama
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Poll Tax is outlawed in Federal Elections
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Louis Allen witnesses a murder of a civil rights worker in Liberty, Mississippi
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Reverand Bruce Klunder is killed protesting consturction of a segregated school in Cleveland, Ohio
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These two men are killed by Klansmen in Meadville, Mississippi
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Freedom Usmmer brings 1,000 young civil rights volunteers to Mississippi
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James Cheney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner are abducted and slain by Klansmen in Philadelphia, Mississippi
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This law was signed by Lyndon B. Johnson and it outlawed discrimination on the basis on race, color, sex, religion, or nationality
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Lemuel Penn is killed by Klansmen while driving north in Colbert, Georgia
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Jimmie Lee Jackson, a civil rights marcher is killed by a state trooper in Marion, Alabama
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This march was organized to help African Americans gain Voting Rights. These people faced state troopers with all sorts of tear gas and billy clubs. They made it from Selma to Montgomery and eventually earned Voting Rights later that year
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Reverand James Reeb, a march volunteer is beaten to death in Selma, Alabama
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Thousands complete the Selma to Montgomery Voting Rights March
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Viola Gregg Liuzzo is killed by Klansmen while transporting marchers on the Selma Highway
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Oneal Moore, a black deputy is killed by nightriders in Varnado, Louisiana
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Congress passes the Voting Rights Act of 1965
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Willie Brewster is killed by nightriders in Anniston, Alabama
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Johnathan Daniels, a seminary student is killed by deputy in Haynesville, Alabama
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Samuel Younge Jr. is a student and civil rights activist and is killed in a dispute in Tuskegee, Alabama
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Vernon Dahmer a black community leader is killed in a Klan bombing in Hattiesburg, Alabama
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Ben Chester White is Killed by Klansmen in Natchez, Mississippi
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Clarence Triggs is slain by nightriders in Bogalusa, Louisiana
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Wharlest Jackson, a civil rights leader is killed after being promoted to a "white" job in Natchez Mississippi
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Benjamin Brown, a civil rights worker is killed when police fired on protesters in Jackson, Mississippi
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Before becoming a Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall was a lawyer that was known for his great arguing skills. This was monumental because before any cases that went to the Supreme Court involved white men so you didn't have someone of color to hear that person's side of the story. Also this was the first minority to be represented on the Supreme Court
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Samuel Hammond Jr, Delano Middleton, and Henry Smith are killed when highway patrolmen fire on protesters in Orangeburg, South Carolina
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MLK went to Memphis to support African American city sanitation workers protest. He later gave a speech that was his last sppech ever. Then the next day he was shot by a sniper at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis. This was a huge impact on both whites and African Americans because MLK was a huge symbol for Civil Rights in America
