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The court case that all owed seperate but equal facilities was The Plessy vs. Ferguson. It was a pivotal case that ruled that racially seperate facilities, if equal, dd not violate the constution. The thing that started this case up was school districts ignored plessys "equal" requirement. Also, the NAACP challenged school segration in a series of court cases. The outcome of this cse was seperate schools for blacks ad whites be unconstutional.
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George Lee lived in Belzoni,MS. He was a staunch civil rights and NAACP supporter. On the morning he was killed he went to a small grocery store for his sick wife, when he was visited by two white men. He was shot in his car while driving down he street not far from his home.
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Lamar Smith was shot in cold blood on the crowded courthouse lawn in the state of Brookhaven, MS for organizing for blacks to vote.
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Emmettt Lousie Till was only 14 when he murdered for repeatly flirting with a white cashier while visted home in Money, MS.
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John Reese was slained by neighbors because he was trying to make the schooling sytems for blacks safer. Before he was killed a series of school shotting had taken place.
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Rosa Parks got arested on December 1, 1955 for refusing to give up her sit fo a whie person.The result in her refusing to give up her seat was getting arrested by Alabama law inforcement. She was charged eith a 381 day boycott.
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This was a 13 month mass protest. The protest was to stop segrrtion on buses. It was to make everyone has equl rights on the bus.
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This was when the U.S supreme court make seating on buses unconstitutional. So anyone could sit where they wanted.
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Willie Edwards was a truck driver on his way home after a long drive when he was stopped by 4 Klansmen. They had mistaken Willie for a black man dating a white women. At gunpoint they made Willie jump of a bridge into the Alabama River. He body was discovered 3 months later.
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Mack Charles Parker went to jail for apprently raping a pregnant white womenon highway 11 about a mile south of the Lamar County line.
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Four college students sat down at a lunch counter in Greerboro, NC and asked to be served. There request was denied. When they were asked to move they did not move. Their passive resistance and peaceful sit-down demand helped ignite a youth-led movement to challenge racial inequality throughout the South.
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The amount of black people getting areested for not giving up thier sits was sky rocketing. So the supremem court outlawed segration on buses.
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Freedom riders were riding in Alabama when they were attacked while testing the new bus segrartion laws.
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After the coroner’s jury said it was a homicide Louis Allen, told FBI investigators that he had been forced to lie to the coroner’s jury. Allen endured beatings and harassment immediately after he came forward to the FBI.There have been no arrests in the Allen murder.
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When the civil rights committe started the Mississippi summer project to help increase the amount of votes they got including black
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2 people were killed, 75 injured when rioting when James meridth enrolled to Ole miss college. He was the first black student to enroll. People thought he should not be there which lead to the riot.
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2 french reporters were killed during the James meredith riot for trying to get information on his and protesting against it.
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William Lewis Moore was shot during a one-man march against segregation. Moore was going to deliver a letter to the governor of Mississippi to end intolerance.
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During this time one of the most influencial marches took place. Many children/ young teens were partisipating in this march so Alabama police force brought out the dogs and fire hoses to make the kids stop marching.
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Governor of Alabma blocks doors to keeep blacks from enrolling in University of Alabama.
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Rev. George was killed by a bull dozer on a School construction site. people say they were yelling at the driver but they he could not hear them because of the machinery
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Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman, and James Chaney are killed by a KKK mob near Meridian, Mississippi. The three young civil rights workers were working to register black voters in Mississippi, this inspiring the ire of the local Klan.
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When SNCC activist Robert Moses launched a voter registration drive in Mississippi in 1964, he made a system so that blacks could vote
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This is the day President Johnson signed the civil rights activists this is the day President Johnson signed the civil rights act
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Lemuel Penn was abutted snd killed by klansman
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Jimmie lee was kill by a state trooper for for leading a civil rights campaign
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State troopers killed predestined for marching about civil rights
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Samuel Hammond Jr. , Delano Middleton, Henry smith, are killed when police officer are in a shoot out on highway
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Ducksworth was traveling to Mississippi on a interstate bus to visit his wife who was expecting their sixth child. He was shot when he refused to move to the back of the bus.
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Martin Luther king was assinated on this day
