Civil Rights

Louis Allen

Jan 31, 1954

Witness to murder of civil rights worker assassinated

Brown vs Board of Education

May 17, 1954

i. Plessy vs Ferguson
ii. 12 black students were denied enrollment in a white school.
iii. The court declared state laws seperate public schools for black and white students to be uncostitutional.

The Rev. George Lee

May 7, 1955

Killed for leading a voter registration drive in Balzoni, Mississppi.

Lamar Smith

Aug 13, 1955

Murdered for organizing black voters in Brookhaven, Mississippi.

Emmett Louis Till

Aug 28, 1955

Murdered for speaking to a white woman Money, Mississippi.

John Earl Reese

Oct 22, 1955

Killed by nightriders oppposed to school improvements Mayflower, Texas

Rosa Parks

Dec 1, 1955

i. She sat at the front of a bus in Alabama after a white man asked her to get up.
ii. Rosa was arrested immediatly afterwards, and later the supreme court banned segregation on city buses,

Montgomergy Bus Boycott

Dec 5, 1955

The bus boycott begins

Supreme Court Bans Segregation on buses

Nov 13, 1956

Supreme court bans segregated bus seating on Montgomery buses.

Willie Edwards Jr

Jan 23, 1957

Killed by Klansman Montgomery, Alabama

Congress Passes First Civil Rights Act

Aug 29, 1957

i. President Eisenhower
ii. He got blacks to vote

Eisenhowers Orders Troops to Enforce Desegregation

Sep 24, 1957

i. 9 black students enrolled at a white school.
ii. they protected them by doing such things as walking them through the side door, to avoid mobs

Mack Charles Parker

Apr 25, 1959

Taken from jain and lynched Poplarville, Mississippi.

Black Students Sit at "Whites Only" Counter

Feb 1, 1960

Blacks sit at whites only lunch counter in North Carolina

Supreme Court Outlaws Segregation in Buses

Dec 5, 1960

Supreme Court bans segregation on bus transportation\

Freedom Riders Attacked

May 14, 1961

i. Civil rights activists
ii. Congress of racial euality (CORE)
iii.Whites joined too

Hebert Lee

Sep 25, 1961

Herbert Lee was a voter registration worker killed by a white legistlator.

Civil Rights Group Forces Registration Drive

Apr 1, 1962

Civil rights groups join together to launch a voter registration drive.

CPL. Roman Ducksworth Jr.

Apr 9, 1962

Taken from bus and killed by police.

James Meredith Enrolls in Ole Miss

Sep 30, 1962

i. Riots occured and 2 people ended up dead
ii. Kennedy called out 31000 national guardsmen to enfore order

Paul Guimard

Sep 30, 1962

French reporters killed during Ole Miss riot

William Lewis Moore

Apr 23, 1963

Killed during one-man march against segregation

Birmingham Police

May 3, 1963

Attacked marching children with dogs and fire hoses

Alabama Governor

Jun 11, 1963

George Wallace stands in schoolhouse doors to stop university integration

Medgar Evers

Jun 12, 1963

i. African American civil rights activist
ii. He was shot by a white in his driveway

250,000 Americans March

Aug 28, 1963

i. Americans marched to Washington DC to see Martin Luther King's speech
ii. The "I have a dream" speech

Schoolgirs Killed

Sep 15, 1963

Schoolgirls were killed in bombing of The Baptist Church

Virgil Lamar Ware

Sep 15, 1963

Killed during a wave of racist violance

Poll Tax

Jan 23, 1964

Poll tax outlawed in federal elections

The Rev. Bruce Klunder

Apr 7, 1964

Killed protesting construction of segregated school

Hezekiah Oee and Eddie Moore

May 2, 1964

Henry Oee and Charles Moore were killed by klansmen

Freedom Summer

Jun 10, 1964

Freedom Summer brings 1,000 young civil rights volunteers to Mississippi.

Chaney, Goodman, Schewerner

Jun 21, 1964

James Chany, Andrew Goodman, and Micheal Schewerner were civil rights workers that were abducted and slain by klansmen

Pres. Johnson Signs Civil Rights Acr of 1964

Jul 2, 1964

i. President Johnson
ii. outlawed discrimintation against gender, race, religion, color, or national origin

Lt. Cole Lemuel Penn

Jul 11, 1964

Lt. Penn was killed by a klansmen while driving north

Jimmie Lee Jackson

Feb 26, 1965

He was a civil rights marcher that was killed by a state trooper

Edmund Pettus Bridge

Mar 7, 1965

State troopers beat back marchers here

The Rev. James Reeb

Mar 11, 1965

March volunteer beaten to death

March to Selma

Mar 25, 1965

i. to register black voters in the south
ii. violent risitance by state and local authoritites
iii. A voting rights act was passed later that year

Viola Gregg Liuzzo

Mar 25, 1965

Viola Liuzzo was killed by a klansman while transporting marchers

Oneal Moore

Jun 2, 1965

Oneal was a black deputy killed by nightriders

Voting Rights

Jul 9, 1965

Congressed passes the Voting Rights Act of 1965

Willie Brewster

Jul 18, 1965

Willie was killed by nightriders

Jonathan Daniels

Aug 20, 1965

Jonathan was a siminary student that was killed by a deputy

Samuel Young Jr.

Jan 3, 1966

Samuel was a student civil rights activast that was killed in a despute

Vernon Dahmer

Jan 10, 1966

Vernon was a black community leader killed in klan bombing

Ben Chester White

Jun 10, 1966

Ben White was killed by a klansmen

Clarence Triggs

Jul 30, 1966

Clarance was slain by nightriders

Warlest Jackson

Feb 27, 1967

Warlest was a civil rights leader killed after promotion to 'white' job

Benjamin Brown

May 12, 1967

Benjamin was a civil rights worker killed when police fired on protesters

Thurgood Marshall

Oct 2, 1967

i. he worked in the staff in the NAACP
ii. he was the nations first black justice

Hammond, Middleton, and Smith

Feb 8, 1968

Samuel Hammond Jr, Delano Middleton, and Henry Smith were students killed when a highway patrolmen fired on protesters

Dr. Marin Luther King Jr.

Apr 4, 1968

i. he was planning for a march to Washington to lobby congress on behalf of the poor
ii. he wsa a huge symbol for blacks and changed many viewpoints on some whites perspectives.