Civil Rights Movement

Brown v Board of Education

May 17, 1954

1. Plessy v. Ferguson Supreme Court decision of 1896 2.The blacks weren't allowed to go to school 3.The result was a unanimous ruling

Rosa Parks Arrested

Dec 1, 1955

1. Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat in the back of the bus to a white person.
2. She was forced off the bus by a officer.

Civil Rights Act of 1957

Aug 27, 1957

1. President Eisenhower 2.This was a voting rights bill

Little Rock Arkansas

Sep 4, 1957

1.9 black students were chased and beat by white people.
2.They put in officers to guide the students and protect them from any harm.

Supreme Court Outlaws segregation in bus terminals

Dec 5, 1960

1. Montgomery bus Boycott 2.2 black men sat behind the driver in the bus after segregation law was passed

Freedom Riders

May 14, 1961

1. A group of people who rode interstate buses to the south in 1961. 2.Congress of Racial equality 3.Both black and white

James Meredith enrolls at Ole Miss

Sep 30, 1962

1. Chaos broke out at the campus 2.Kennedy administration order 31,000 troops to break up the mess and enforce order.

Paul Guihard Killed in Riot

Sep 30, 1962

1. Oxford Mississippi 2.Paul Guihard a French Reporter Killed in a civil rights riot in Mississippi

Birmingham Police attack

May 3, 1963

1. Birmingham Alabama
2. Police officers attack marching children with fire hoses and dogs

Medgar Evers Assassinated

Jun 23, 1963

1. He tried to end segregation in Mississippi. 2.Shot to death by a white supremacist named Byron De La Beckwith

The March on Washinton

Aug 28, 1963

1. It was for jobs and freedom in the nations captial. 2.I Had A Dream

Freedom Summer

Jun 20, 1964

1. Missippi
2. The 1964 Freedom Summer project was designed to draw the nation’s attention to the violent oppression experienced by Mississippi blacks

Civil Rights Act 1964

Jul 2, 1964

1. Lyndon B. Johnson
2. Outlawed discrimination to other people based on skin color and much more

March to Selma

Mar 7, 1965

1. Marched for voting rights 2.A raid of white people 3.Voting rights for black people

Jonathan Daniels shot

Aug 20, 1965

1. Hayneville Alabama
2. Jonathan Daniels was shot by a officer because he was a Civil Rights Activist

Thurgood Marshall first black supreme court justice

Oct 2, 1967

1.Chief Counsel for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).
2.It wouldn't only have white people making the ruling in the supreme court

The Assassination of MLK

Apr 4, 1968

1. He was shot on his way to dinner in the jaw and through his spinal chord.
2. He was the voice of all of America with his speeches