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In the Plessy v. Ferguson court case allowed seperate but equal facilities for blacks and whites. In Topeka Kansas a young girl was denied admission into the local elementary school because she was black. Similar cases were brought up as part of the Brown v. Board of Education.
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George pastored a Baptist in Belzoni, MS. He was killed for registering blacks in Humphrey's County to vote.
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A 63 year old farmer and World War II veteran was a voting rights activist and a member of the Regional Counsel of Negro Leadership. He was murder for organizing black voters.
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Emmett was a 14 year old African American who was flirting with a white woman. Four days later, two white men kidnapped Till, beat im and shot him in the head.
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He was murdered at the age of 16 in a cafe with his cousins Joyce Nelson, 13, and her sister Johnnie, 15.
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Rosa sat down on the bus in Mongomery, Alabama. She refused to give up her seat on the bus when a white man needed it, she got arrested.
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African Americans refused to ride city buses in Montgomery, Alabama, to protest segergated seating.
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Laws requiring racial segregation on buses in Montgomery and throughout Alabama were declared unconstitutional.
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Members from the KKK had driven him to the Alabama River and pointed a gun at him, and told him to get oon the bridge and jump. He jumped off the bridge and fell into the water killing himself.
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Eisenhower signed this act into law.
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Eisenhower sends troops to protect the students in Arkansas
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He was accused of raping a white pregnant woman. He was killed two days later.
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Black college students sit down at "white only" lunch counter and more black students joined over the months.
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The Supreme Court banned segregation in bus terminals
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He had been a member of the NAACP since the early 1950s. When SNCC voting rights activists started working in Amite and Pike counties in the fall of 1961, Lee, a close friend of the Amite County NAACP branch chairman E.W. Steptoe, became involved, helping to transport the workers and orient them to the locale.
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Civil rights groups join forces to launch voter registration drive
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He was taken off the bus and killed by police
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Roits began when James enrolled at Ole Miss
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French-British journalist for Agence France-Press. He was murdered in the 1962 riot at the University of Mississippi while covering the events surrounding James Meredith's attempts to enroll at the all-white university
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Slain during one-mean march against segregation in Attalla, Alabama
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Police attack marching children with dogs and fire hoses in Birmingham.
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Alabama Governor stands in schoolhouse door to stop university integration
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Civil rights leader assassinated
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250,000 Americans march on Washington for civil rights. A political rally known as the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.
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Addie Mae Collins, Denise Mcnair, and Cynthia Wesley kille din the bombing of Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama.
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Youth 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 assassination in Liberty, Mississippi.
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Killed while prostesting contruction of segregated school in Clevland, Ohio.
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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 abducted and slain by klansmen Philadelphia, Mississippi.
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President Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
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Killed by klansmen while driving north in Colbert, Georgia.
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Black community leader killed in klan bombing in Hattiesburg Mississippi.
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Civil rights marcher killed by state trooper in Marion, Alabama.
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State troopers beat back marchers at Edmund Pettus bridge in Selma, Alabama.
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March volunteer beaten to death at Selma, Alabama.
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Thousands complete the Selma march to Montgomery Voting Rights March.
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Killed by klansmen while transporting marchers in Selma Highway Alabama.
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Black deputy killed by nightriders in Varnado, Louisiana.
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Congress passes Voting Rights Act of 1965.
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Killed by nightriders in Anniston Alabama
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Seminary student killed by deputy in Hayneville, Alabama.
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Student civil rights activist killed in dispute in Tuskegee, Alabama.
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Black community leader killed in klan bombing in Hattiesburg Mississippi.
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Killed by klansmen in Natchez, Mississippi.
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Slain by nightriders in Bagalusa, Louisiana.
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Civil rights leader killed after promotuon to 'white' job in Natchez Misssissippi.
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Civil rights worker killed when police fired on protesters in Jackson Mississippi.
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Thurgood Marshall swom in as first black Supreme Court justice.
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Students killed when highway patrolmen fire on protesters in Orangeburg South Carolina.
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Assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee
