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The Plessy vs. Ferguson case allowed the "seperate but equal facilities". What started the Brown vs. Board of Education case is that Linda Brown wasn't allowed into a public school for her skin color. The turn out was that schools could no longer deny colored children from attending.
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George Lee was killed for leading a voter-registration drive that would allow colored people to have their say in elections in Befzoni, Mississippi.
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He was murdered for organizing black voters in Brookhaven, Mississippi.
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He was murdered for merely speaking to a white women in Money, Mississippi.
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He was killed by night riders that disagreed with school improvements for colored children in Mayflower, Texas.
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Rosa Parks was arrested by the police for not leaving her seat so that a white civilian may sit. Due to her arrest, colored people rallied and boycotted busses.
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The colored citizens of Montgomery, Alabama boycotted the use of busses until they were given what they asked.
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The Supreme Court ruled that busses were no longer allowed segregation on busses.
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He was killed by Klansmen in Montgomery, Alabama.
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President Eisenhower passed the Civil Rights Act of 1957 which established the Civil Rights Section of the Justice Department and allowed the government to take action against segregation and/or discrimination against a group of people. It also made it difficult for people to stop others from voting.
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President Eisenhower ordered troops to enforce school desegregation as well as protect the colored students that are being attacked in Little Rock, Arkansas. This was needed as students of color were greeted with a mob of angry parents, students, and protestors.
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He was taken out of jail to be lynched in Poplarville, Mississippi.
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Some black students staged a sit-in at a white only lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina.
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The Supreme Court outlaws segregation in bus terminals.
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Freedom riders would ride busses across the country to protest the ruling for segregation in interstate busses. They were organized by CORE. These freedom riders were met with hostility and violence. At one point, a mob of 1000 attacked the buses and riders.
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A voter registration worker named Herbert Lee was killed by a white legislator in Liberty, Mississippi.
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Some civil rights groups joined forces to launch a voter registration.
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A man named Roman Ducksworth Jr. was taken from a bus by police in Taylorsville, Mississippi.
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A mob of 2000 students stood to block the way of the first colored student James Meredith from going to Ole Miss. John F. Kennedy sent many troops to aid and protect him.
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During the Ole Miss riot, the French reporter Paul Guinard was killed.
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He did a one man march on segregation in Artalla, Alabama and was killed.
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Children in Birmingham were marching when police used dogs and fire hoses to attack and disperse them.
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Alabama Governor George Wallace stood in the doorway of a school house to stop the integration of colored and white students.
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Medgar Evers was a civil rights activist. He was killed after he got evidence and witnesses to decide the Emmitt Till murder case.
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Over 250,000 Americans marched on Washington to protest the unequal rights given to African Americans both in the political and economic sense. The "I have a dream..." speech was given by Martin Luther King Jr.
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Four young colored girls were killed in a terrorist attack by racists during a church bombing in Birmingham.
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The young man Virgil Lamar Ware was killed during a surge of racist violence in Birmingham, Alabama.
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The tax on voting was removed so that the poor, which most colored and minority people qualified as, could vote.
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Louis Allen was assassinated by racists because he was a witness to the killing of some civil rights workers.
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Reverend Bruce Klunder was killed while protesting the construction of a segregated school in Cleveland, Ohio.
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Henry Dee and Charles Moore were both killed by Klansmen in Meadville, Mississippi.
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Freedom Summer brings together 1,000 young civil rights volunteers to Mississippi to help the cause.
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President Lyndon Johnson passed a civil rights law stating that people could not be denied employment based on race, color, gender, or other factor of that liking as well as ended segregation in public places.
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Lt. Colonel Lemuel Penn was killed by Klansmen while driving North in Colbert, Georgia.
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Civil rights marcher Jimmie Jackson was killed by a state trooper in Marion, Alabama.
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During the march on Selma, state troopers beat marchers on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama.
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During the march on Selma, reverend James Reeb was beaten to death.
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Viola was killed by Klansmen while marchers were being transported from Selma.
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The march on Selma was organized due to it being one of the most resistant places for black voting rights. The marchers were met with opposition from local and state authorities, but they eventually made it to Montgomery, their goal.
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Oneal, a black deputy, was killed by nightriders in Varnado, Louisiana.
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Congress passed the voting rights act of 1965.
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Willie Brewster was killed by nightriders in Anniston, Alabama.
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Jonathon Daniels was killed by a deputy in Hayneville, Alabama.
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Samuel, a student civil rights activist was killed in a dispute in Tuskegee, Alabama
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Vernon was a black community leader that was killed in a Klan bombing in Hattiesburg, Mississippi.
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Ben was killed by Klansmen in Natchez, Mississippi.
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Clarence was slain by nightriders in Begalusa, Louisiana.
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Wharlest was a civil rights leader that was killed after receiving a promotion into a job that was considered a white person job.
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Benjamin was a civil rights worker killed by policemen when they opened fire on protestors in Jackson, Mississippi.
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Thursgood Marshall was a legal counsel for the NAACP before his became the first black Supreme Court Justice. This was monumental as it put an African American in the position to decide very important cases.
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Three students named Samuel Hammond Jr., Delano Middleton, and Henry Smith were killed when highway patrolmen opened fire on protestors in South Carolina.
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Earlier the day of the assassination of Dr. King, he had given a speech which seemed to imply he thought he'd die soon. He had said that he may not make it to the "promised land" with his people. A little after 6 pm, he was standing on his hotel room balcony when he was shot in the neck and rushed to the hospital. He had been the voice of the civil rights movement, and his death shocked and shook America's people.
