Civil Rights Timeline: Becca Fuller

By beccafuller21

  • Brown v. Board of Education

    1. Plessy v. Ferguson.
    2. In Topeka, Kansas the school board denied Oliver Brown's child an education at a white school, so he argued that the school board was violating the Constitution's Equal Protection Clause. So Oliver Brown went to the Supreme Court which is what started the Brown v. Board of Education.
    3. In the end, the case declared new laws that established separate public schools for black and white students was unconstitutional.

  • Thurgood Marshall

    1. Marshall was first a legal counsel for the NAACP
    2. Thurgood Marshall argued and won many cases to strike down many forms of legalized racism, helping to inspire the American Civil Rights Movement

  • George Lee

    1. Rev. George Washington Lee was the first black person to register to vote in Humphreys County since Reconstruction, was shot to death on a neighborhood street while driving his car

  • Rosa Parks Gets Arrested

    1.In 1955 it was common for a white person to take the spot of a black on a bus if there were no open seats. But Rosa Parks had a long day of work and wanted to get home as soon as possible. The bus was full and a white man couldn't get on. The bus driver asked for Rosa Parks seat and two other black seats. But Rosa said no.
    2.The bus driver was taken back by this answer and threatened to have her arrested. When she still did not move, he called the police, and Rosa Parks was arrested.

  • Segregated Seating Ends

    1. The Supreme Court ruled that the "separate but equal" policy was unconstitutional on buses, and all African Americans returned to their buses after 381 days of boycotting

  • Civil Rights Act of 1957

    1. Einsenhower passed the law
    2. The Civil Rights Act 1957 created the Civil Rights commission and allows the Justice Department to have cases for the African Americans that are being deprived of their voting rights in the South

  • Mack Charles Parker

    1. Mack Charles Parker was an African American that was falsely accused of raping a white woman. He was pleading not guilty to the court, but before he could get the chance, a mob pulled him from his cell and shit him. They chained up his body, and threw it in the river

  • Freedom Riders

    1. Freedom Riders were civil right activists that protested segregation in interstate bus terminals
    2. CORE helped the Freedom Riders
    3. The Freedom Riders was a group of white and African Americans

  • James Meredith

    1. James was admitted into Ole Miss until the school discovered his race, then his admission was withdrawn
    2. General Robert Kennedy sent 500 U.S. Marshals, and JFK sent the National Guard in the school to let James attend the school

  • Birmingham Children's Crusade

    1. 16th street Baptists Church peacefully protested against segregation, to try to get the mayor's attention. But the Commissioner of Public Safety Bull O’Connor ordered police to spray the children with powerful water hoses, hit them with batons, and threaten them with police dogs.

  • Medgar Evers

    1. Medgar Evers was an African American that was very open about fighting against segregation in Mississippi
    2. For openly sharing his opinions, his was threatened often. His house was even fire bombed on May, 12th. But June 12th Medgar was shot in the back in his driveway

  • March on Washington

    1. The March on Washington was created to demand civil and economic rights for African Americans
    2. At the march, Martin Luther King Jr. gave his "I Have a Dream" speech

  • The 24th Amendment End Poll Tax

    1. On January 23, 1964, the United States created the 24th Amendment to the Constitution, prohibiting any poll tax in elections for federal officials

  • Civil Rights Act of 1964

    1. Lyndon B. Johnson passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964
    2. The law banned segregation from public places and need discrimination for someones religion, or race

  • March to Selma

    1. On February 18, white segregationists attacked a group of peaceful demonstrators in the town of Marion. an Alabama state trooper fatally shot Jimmie Lee Jackson, a young African-American. In response to Jackson’s death, King and the SCLC created the march to Selma
    2. The matchers had to face many segregationists until the National Guard came to protect them
    3. After the match, the Voting Rights Act was created

  • Martin Luther King's Assassination

    1. After giving a speech in the Mason Temple Church, Martin Luther King, he went to his hotel, where he was shot from his balcony
    2. His death fueled the power of the Black Power movement, because they wanted to do him justice

  • Little Rock

    1. Nine African American students were admitted into an all white school, Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. Governor Faubus sent the National Guard in to the school to stop the black students from entering the school. It wasn't until September 25th that the students could finally begin their education at Central High School
    2. Eisenhower sent federal troops to allow the students to start school every day