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Brown v. Board of Education
In the Plessy vs Ferguson case segregation was legal if the white places are equal to black places. In Topeka Kansas the Brown's child was not allowed into a white school. In the Brown v. Board of Education the Supreme Court outlawed segregtion in schools. -
Emmett Louis Till
Emmett Louis Till was murdered for speaking to a white woman Money, Mississippi. -
Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white man. Her actions led to the bus boycott. -
Civil Rights Act of 1957
Congress passed the Civil Rights Act. The law reinforced African American voting rights. -
Events at Little Rock, Arkansas
At Little Rock high school nine black students attempted to go inside but they were met by the national guard and a angry white mod. The national guard and the mob would not allow the 9 black students in side the school. The President sent the army to make shore the nine black students in the high school. -
Mack Charles Parker
Mack Charles Parker was taken from jail and lynched in Poplarville, Mississippi. -
Attack of the Freedom Riders
The freedom riders were African Americans and a few white people went on busses and sat anywhere on the bus and drove into the south. The organization, Congress of Racial Equality or (CORE) helped organize the freedom riders. -
Civil Rights voter registration drive
Civil right groups join forces to launch a voter registration drive. -
James Meredith
James Meredith tried to enroll at Ole Miss, but the Governor was there and denied him admission to this college. The Government sent the army to make sure that James Meredith enrolled. -
Paul Guihard
Paul Guihard was a french reporter killed during Ole Miss riot in Oxford, Mississippi. -
Medgar Evers Assassinated
Medgar Evers was the field secretary for the NAACP, he was shot in the back while walking up to his house. -
The March on Washington
250,000 Americans marched to Washington for civil rights, at this march Martin Luther King Jr. gave one of his most famous speeches "I Have a Dream". -
Civil Right Act of 1964
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was a law that outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. This law was signed in by President Johnson. -
March to Selma
From Selma to Montgomery African Americans marched to raise awareness of the hardships African Americans face in the south. On the march many African Americans were beaten and some killed. In the end the marchers had completed what they set out to do, They raised awareness of the cruelties in the south. -
Samuel Young Jr.
Samuel Young Jr. was a Student civil rights activist killed in a dispute at Tuskegee, Alabama. -
Thurgood Marshall
Thurgood Marshall was a well known lawyer that one at the Brown v. Board of Education. He became the first black man in the Supreme Court Justice. -
Samuel Hammond Jr., Delano Middleton, Henry Smith.
Samuel Hammond Jr., Delano Middleton, Henry Smith were students killed when highway patrolmen fire on protesters Orangeburg, Carolina. -
The Assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
MLK Jr. was shot on a balcony outside his room at a Motel in Memphis, Tenn. With the news of his death African Americans and whites were angry and sad at this horrific event.
