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Supreme court otlaws school segregation in Brown v. Board of Education
Springfield,Missouri
i. Plessy v. Ferguson and Brown v. Board of Education
ii.Jim Crow laws were in efeect and judges ruled that black students were being violated in Topeka schools
iii.Justice Warren delivered the court's opinion, stating that "segregated schools are not equal and cannot be made equal, and hence they are deprived of the equal protection of the laws." -
killed for leading voter-registratioon drive
Belzoni,Mississsippi -
Murdered for organizing black voters
Brookhaven,Mississippi -
Murdered for speaking to a white woman
Money,Mississippi -
Slain by nightriders opposed to school improvements
Mayflower,Texas -
Rosa Parks arrested for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white man
Montgomery,Alabama
i.Rosa Parks was on the bus and when there were no open seats. Then a white man tried to come and take her spot. She had refused to move because she saught there was no reason why she should get up for a white man.
ii.She was arrested -
Montgomery bus boycott begins
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Supreme court bans segregated seating on Montgomery buses
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Willie Edwards Jr. killed by klansmen
Montgomery,Alabama -
Congress passes first civil rights act since reconstruction
Washington,DC
i.Congress
ii.Primarily a voting rights bill, was the first civil rights legislation passed -
President Eisenhower orders federal troops to enforce school desegregation
Little Rock,Arkansas
i.Eisenhower ordered federal troops to enforce school desegregation
ii.The president sent troops and the President federalized the Arkansas National Guard and authorized calling the Guard and regular Federal forces to remove obstructions to justice in Little Rock school integration. -
Maack Charles Parker taken from jail and lynched
Poplarville,Mississippi -
Black students stage sit-in at "whites only" lunch counter
Greensberg,North Carolina -
Supreme court outlaws segregation in bus terminals
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Freedom Riders attacked in Alabama while testing compliance with bus desegregation laws
Alabama
i. Civil rights activists who rode buses into the segregated southern United States and following years to challenge the non-enforcement of the United States Supreme Court decisions Irene Morgan v. Commonwealth of Virginia and Boynton v. Virginia, which ruled that segregated public buses were unconstitutional
ii.Organizations that were against civil rights movements
iii.Whites too -
Voter registration worker killed by white legislator
Liberty,Mississippi -
Civil rights groups join forces to launch voter registration drive
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Taken from bus and killed by police
Taylorsville,Mississippi -
Riots errupt when James Meredith,a black student,enrolls at Ole miss
Ole Miss,Mississippi
i.Meredith applied and was accepted to the University of Mississippi, but his admission was revoked when the registrar learned of his race. When he enrolled again the office was blocked by Governor Ross Barnett. He was later shot by a sniper
ii.The government was involved because the governor was found guilty of civil contempt -
A french reporter killed during Ole Miss riot
Oxford,Mississippi -
Slain during one-man march against segregation
Artalla,Alabama -
Birmingham police attack marching children with dogs and fire hoses
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Alabama governor George Wallace stands in schoolhouuse door to stop university integration
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Medgar Evers civil rights leader assassinated
Jackson,Mississippi
i.A civil rights leader during this time who is a African American
ii.He was at his house in bhis drive way and had gotten shot in the back and ricocheted into his home. The klu Klux Klan had killed him. -
250,000 Americans march on Washington for civil rights
Washington,DC
i.Showed political and social challenges African Americans continued to face across the country and to gain jobs and freedom
ii.Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech -
Addie Mae Collins,Denise Mcnair,Carole Robertson,Cynthia Wesley schoolgirls killed in bombing of Sixteenth Street Baptist Church
Birmingham,Alabama -
Youth killed during wave of racist violece
Birmingham,Alabama -
Poll tax outlawed in federal elections
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Witness to murder of civil rights worker assassinated
Liberty,Mississippi -
Killed protesting construction of segregated schools
Cleveland,Ohio -
Killed by klansmen
Meadville,Mississippi -
Brings 1,000 young civil rights volunteers to Mississippi
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James Chaney,Andrew Goodman,Michael Schwerner civil rights workers abducted and slain by Klansmen
Philadelphia,Mississippi -
President Johnson signs Civil Rights Act of 1964
Washington,DC
i.President Jonson
ii.outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.It ended unequal application of voter registration requirements and racial segregation in schools, at the workplace and by facilities that served the general public -
Killed by Klansmen while driving north
Colbert,Georgia -
Civil rights marcher killed by state trooper
Marion,Alabama -
State troopers beat back marchers at Edmuund Pettus Bridge
Selma,Alabama -
March volunteer beaten to death
Selma,Alabama -
Thousands complete the Selma to Montgomery Voting Rights March
Selma,Alabama
i. In support of a boycott by blacks of the Montgomery transit system
ii. violent resistance by state and local authorities
iii.They reached there goal to Montgomery with protection of federalized National Guard troops -
Killed by Klansmen while transporting marchers
Selma Highway,Alabama -
Black deputy killed by nightriders
Varnado,Louisiana -
Congress passes Voting Rights Act of 1965
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Killed by nightriders
Anniston,Alabama -
Seminary student killed by deputy
Hayneville,Alabama -
Students civil rights activist killed in dispute
Tuskegee,Alabama -
Black communist leader killed in Klan bombing
Hattiesbrag,Alabama -
Killed by Klansmen
Natchez,Mississippi -
Slain by nightriders
Bogalusa,Louisiana -
Civil rights leader killed after promotion to "white job"
Natchez,Mississippi -
Civil rights worker killed when police fired on protesters
Jackson,Mississippi -
Thurgood Marshall came in as first Supreme Court justice
Maryland,Delaware
i.He led the fight to dismantle the "separate but equal" doctrine in public education.
ii.This was a important event because it was a step in ending segregation. Also was a huge step in ending segregated schools and seeing that all people should be treated equally -
Samuel HammondJr.,Delano Middleton,Henry Smith. students killed when highway patrolmen fire on protesters
Orangeburg,South Carolina -
Assassinated
Memphis,Tenessee
i. He was shot by Earl Ray when he was standing on the balcony at evening and instantly a wave of riots broke out. He was in Memphis to support a sanitation worker's strike.
ii.He was saught by bopth as a man with great courage and strength by both races. He was the leader in peacful protests to help the people of the United States and to help the economically disadvantaged.
