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supreme courts out law school segregation in Brown v. Board of Education. Plessy v. Ferguson was the court case that allowed seperate but equal facilities. THe case was started by 13 parents on behalf of their kids. They did not think that they were being treated equal.The court ended up declaring it unconstitutional to have separater public schools for black and white students.
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Rev. George Lee killed for leading voter-regstration drive in Belzoni, Mississippi
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Lamar smith was murdered for organizing black voters in Brookhaven, Mississippi
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Emmett Louis Till murfered for talking to a white woman in Money,Mississippi
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John Earl Reese slainn by night riders opposed school improvements in Mayflower,Texas
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Rosa parks was arrested for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama. She is arrested for violating segregation laws.
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Montgomery Boycott begins
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supreme court bans segregated seating on Montgomery, Alabama
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Willie edward jr. killed by Klansmen in Montgomery, Alabama
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Congress passes first civil rights act since reconstuction. It initiated a greater federal role in protecting the rights of African Americans and other minorities. It didnt actually make new rights, it just increased protection of the rights.
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Nine black students couldn't get into their high school, which was preveously an only white school. To protect the African American Students President Eisenhower orders federal troops to enforce school desegregation and escort the nine black students to their class safely in litlle rock, arkansas.
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MAck Charles Parker taken from jail and lynched in poparville, Mississippi
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Black students stage a sit-in at "whites only"lunch counter in Greensboro, NC
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supreme court outlaws segregation in bus terminals
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Freedom riders attacked in Alabama while testing compliance with bus desegregation laws. Freedom riders were freedom rights activists that rode interstate buses in southern states. CORE and SNCC helped organize the rides. Both whites and African aAmericans participated in Freedom rides.
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Herbert Lee, a voting regestration worker killed by white legislator in Liberty, Mississippi
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Civil rights groups join forces to launch voter registration drive
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Cpl. Roman Ducksworth Jr. taken from bus and killed by police in Taylorsville, Mississippi
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French reporter, Paul Guihard, killed during Ole Miss riots in Oxford Mississippi
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James Meridith, a black student,enrolled at Ole Miss. The school rejected him becuase of his race. The supreme court ruled that Meridith had the right to go there. Riots errupted. JFK sent state troops to stop the riots and let Meridith enroll.
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William Lewis Moore slain during one-man march against segregatin in Artalla, Alabama
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Birmingham police attack marching children with dogs and fire hoses
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Alabama Govener, George Wallace, standed in front of schoolhouse to stop university integration.
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Medgar Evers ,who was a Civil rights leader, was assassinated in Jackson, Mississippi. After returning from overseas in WW2, he finiished secondary school and became a civil rights activist. He was assassinated by a White Citizens' council.
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250,000 people marched in Washington for Civil Rights. The famous spech given was Martin Luther King Jr. "i have a dream..." speech.
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Schhol girls,Addie Mae Collins, Denise McNair, Carole Robertson, Cynthia Wesley, killed in bombing of sixteenth steet baptist church in Birmingham, Alabama
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youth,Virgil Lamar Ware, killed during wave of racist violence in Birmingham, Alabama
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Poll tax outlawed in federal elections
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Witness to murder of civil rights worker assassinated,Louis Allen, in Liberty, Mississippi
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The Rev. Bruce Klunder killed protesting construction of segregated school in Cleveland, Ohio
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Henery Hezeklaz Dee and Charles Eddie Moore killed by Klansmen in MEadville, Mississippi
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Freedom Summer brings 1,000 young civil rights volunteers to Mississippi
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Civil rights workers, James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner, abducted and slain by klansmen in Philadelphia, Mississippi
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Pres. Johnson signs Civil Rights act of 1964. This act outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin
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Lt. Col Lemuel Penn killed by klansmen while driving north in Colbert, Georgia
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civil rights marcher,jimmie Lee Jackson, killed by state trooper in Marion, Albama
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The march was organized as a part of the voting rights movement in Alabama. They faced police and Storm Troops that would attack the peace march with things like tear gas. The result of the march was outrage to "bloodly Sunday" and some civil disobedience, and that, that summer a voting rights act wsa passed.
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The rev. James Reeb march volunteer 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 Liuzzi killed by Klansmen while transporting marchers on Selma Highway in Alabama
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Black Deputy,Oneal Moore, killed by nightriders in Varnado, Louisiana
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Congress passed the Voting Right Act of 1965. The law stated that it is prohibits racial discrimination in voting.
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Willie Bruster killed by night riders in Anniston , Alabama
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Semitary student, Jonathan Daniels, killed by deputy in Hayneville, Alabama
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Student and civil righs activist, Samuel Younge Jr., Killed in dispute in Tushkegee,Alabama
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Black community keader, Veron Dahmer, killed iin klan Bombing in Hattiesburg,Mississippi
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BEnn Chester White Kileed by Klansmen in Natchez, Mississippi
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Clarence Triggs slain by nightriders in Bogalusa, Louisiana
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Samuel Hammond Jr., Delano Middleton, Henery smitth, studemts, killed when highway patrolmen fire on protesters in Orangeburg, Sc
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Cilivil rights leader, Wharlest Jackson, killed after being promoted to a "white" job in Natchez, Mississippi
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Civil rights worker, BEnjamin Brown, killed when police fired at protesters
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Thurgood Marshall sworn in as first black Supreme court justice. Before, he had gotten his law degree and was a cheif counsil in NAACP. This was monomental event becuase it was a huge step to full equality for African Americans.
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, Tennesse. MLK Jr. was shot and rushed to a hospitale but was prononced dead later that day. To honor his death their was a silent march where nearly 40,000 people walked in silence in Memphis. Some riots broke out to in reaction to his death. His death had a big impact on many becuase he was a huge leader for change and many admired and looked up to him.
