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The case arose due to a violation and then erpealment of the outcome of the case Plessey vs Fergison. The incident itself happened in Topeka Kansas after an african american named Linda Brown was not allowed to attend a multi-race school. After the case was brought to the Supreme Court, the final ruling was that scholl segregation would be no more
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Rev George Lee is Killed in a protest march
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LAmar Smith is muredered for organizing black voters
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Emmett Louis Till is killed for talking to a white woman. He was only 14
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jhon Earl Resse is killed in a drive-by shooting in a cafe
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Rosa Parks is arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white man in the front of a public bus. Her refusal in my opinion, was justified and it seems a little too harsh to arest a woman for sitting someplace
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Four days after the arrest of Rosa Parks, most African AMericans in Montgomery boycott riding on public buses
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Congress finally enacted a law to end segregation on the public buses
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Willie Edwards jr was killed by members of the kkk
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Congress passes first civil rights law since post-civil war. The law stated that it was now illegal to make african americans pay poll taxes before voting
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Eisenhower sends federal troops to protect african american students in Little Rock
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Mack Charles parker was abducted from prision and lynched
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Black students sit at an all-white lunch counter until they are served
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Congress makes Bus Segregation illegal
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The freedom riders were a group of civil rights activists that rode the public buses across multiple states to the south. Many organizations like ncaap helped give them a backbone.
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Vote registration worker killedby white legislator
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Civil rights group workers and groups ban together to end segregation
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Roman Was Taken from a bus and killed by cops
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James Meredith enrolls at the university of Mississippi, despite almost being turned down due to race. The Government had to send him an escort of us marshals to ensure his security. JFK also took control of the school board to ensur his security too
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French reporter Paul is killed during Ole Miss riot,resulting in the enrolment of James Meredith
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William Lewis Moore was shot twice by an unknown assailent during a one-man-segregation march
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Birmingham police attack young black protesters with dogs and fire hoses
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Medgar Evers was a civil rights activist and WW2 vetran. One day while he was getting out of his car and walking into his house, he was struck by a fatal shot.
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Alabama govenor George Wallace stands in the door of a school house to stop integration as a last ditch.
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The purpose of the march was so African Americans would be able to get equal pay and jobs. At the Lincoin memorial, the famous "I Have a Dream" speech was delivered by Martin Luther King Jr.
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Multiple schoolgirls are killed in a church bombing
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Youth killed during mob violence
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Poll Taxes are outlawed
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Louis Allen, witness to murder of civil right worker is killed
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Rev Bruce Klunder is killed during a protest for the construction of a segregated school.
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Henery Dee and Charles Moore are killed by kkk members
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are abducted and killed by klansmen
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In 1964, Lyndon B. Jhonson enacted a civil rights at which stated that states that no people of any race are to have inequal voting, housing, or public rights violated
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Lt. Colnel Lemuel Penn is killed by a clansmen
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Freedom Summer brings 1,000 young civil rights volunteers to Mississippi
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Civil rights marcher killed by state trooper
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After a rigorus and challenging march from Slema to Montgomery, the African Americans are finallyable to vote. The whole plan of the Selma march was to march from Selma to Montgomery so that they could vote. The marchers face police and state troopers armed with dogs, tear gas, and fire hoses. Through it all, the marchers were able to get to Montgomery and vote.
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Viola Luzzo is killed by klansmen while transporting marchers
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Congress passes 1965 voting act
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Willie Brewster is killed by nightriders
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civil rights activist killed in a dispute
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Black community activist killed in bombing
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Thurgood Marshall was a laywer best known for supporting blacks in the court. His appwalment to the us supreme court is monumental because no black had ever had a rank like that before.
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In the saddest murder of the civil rights movement, activist and reverend Martin Luther King jr was killed in the lorraine hotel in Memphis after being shot from an angle which hit his spine and left cheek. His death caused many African Americans to start rioting and before the riots, mourning.
