Civil Rights Movement Lindsey Fronizer

Brown v. Board of Education

May 17, 1954

1. Plessy v. Ferguson
2. A girl named Linda Brown was not allowed to attend her school in Topeka, Kansas because of her race.
3. The segregation of public schools was ruled unconstitutional.

The Assassination of Rev. George Lee

May 7, 1955

1. The assassination of Rev. George Lee.
2. Belzoni, Mississippi 3.He was killed for leading African Americans in a vote-registration drive
   

The Murder of Emmett Till

Aug 28, 1955

1.The Murder of Emmett Till
2. Money, Mississippi
3. He was murdered for speaking to a white woman.

Rosa Parks

Dec 1, 1955

1. Rosa parks was sitting in the front of the bus. She refused to give up her seat to a white man. Then she was arrested for violation of the Jim Crow laws.
2. The started the beginning of the civil rights movement

Civil Rights Act of 1957

Aug 29, 1957

1. Eisenhower sent this law to Congress, which they passed.
2. This protected the right of African Americans to vote.

Events at Little Rock, Arkansas

Sep 24, 1957

1. 9 African American students were to attend Central High school with 2,000 white students. The governor, Orval Faubus was determined to win reelection. He believed he could do this by enforcing white supremacy. He then ordered troops from The Arkansas National Guard to stop the students from entering.
2. Eisenhower ordered troops from the U.S. Army to protect the African Americans.

Mack Charles Parker

Apr 25, 1959

1. Mack Charles Parker
2. Poplarville, Mississippi
3. He was taken from jail and lynched.

Attack of the Freedom Riders

May 14, 1961

1. The Freedom Riders rode buses into the South to show how the buses were still segregated there, even though it was ruled unconstitutional.
2. CORE (Congress of Racial Equality)
3. Whites joined in too.

James Meredith

Sep 30, 1962

1. He tried to enroll at the University of Mississippi but was stopped by the governor.
2. President Kennedy had to send 500 federal marshals to escort Meredith into the school.

Medgar Evers

Jun 12, 1963

1. Medgar Evers was a civil rights activist and the first state field secretary of the NAACP in Mississippi. He organized boycotts and fought for equal voting rights.
2. On June 12, 1963, Evers was shot in his driveway in Jackson. He then died less than a hour later at a hospital nearby.

The March on Washington

Aug 28, 1963

1. It was to speed up the passage of the Civil Rights Act stalled in Congress. It was also a demand for economic equality.
2. I Have A Dream

Abuduction of Civil Rights Workers

Jun 21, 1964

1. James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Micheal Scwerner were abducted.
2. Philadelphia, Mississippi
3. Civil rights workers were abducted and slain by Klansmen

Civil Rights Act of 1964

Jul 2, 1964

1. President Johnson
2. It gave the federal government power to prevent discrimination in many places. It made segregation illegal in most public places. It gave the attorney general more power to force schools to desegregate. It also created the Equal Employment Opportunity Agency.

March to Selma

Mar 7, 1965

1. It was for equal voting rights.
2. They were attacked and beaten by mobs.
3. President Johnson then created a new voting law.

Rev. James Reeb

Mar 24, 1965

1. Rev. James Reeb
2. Selma, Alabama
3. He was a March volunteer who was beaten to death.

Thurgood Marshall

Oct 2, 1967

1. He represented the NAACP in the Brown v Board of Education case. He did many other things for the NAACP.
2. It showed that African Americans were making progress in the fight for equality.

Assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Apr 4, 1968

1. Dr. King was assassination on the balcony of his hotel room in Memphis. He was supporting a strike of African American sanitation workers.
2. It caused mourning for both American Americans and whites. Congress passed the Civil Rights act of 1968 which outlawed discrimination in house sales and rentals.