Civil Rights timeline Maria Raneses

(A) Brown v. Board of Education

May 17, 1954

1. Plessy vs. Ferguson.
2. A group of citizens (with the help of the NAACP) filed a report against the segregated schools in Kansas.
3. The court ruled that segregation in public schools are unconstitutional.

(O) Emmett Louis Till murder

Aug 28, 1955

1. Money Mississippi.
2. Emmett, a 14 year old boy, Mississippi to visit relatives. He went to a local store, Byrant's Grocery and Meat Market, when he reportedly "flirted" with the check out lady, Carolyn Byrant. A few days later Carolyn's husband and his half brother kidnapped Emmett, beat him and threw him in the river.
   

(B)Rosa Parks arrested for refusing to give up her bus seat

Dec 1, 1955

1. During this time period, the whites got the front of the bus and the blacks had to sit in the back or they had to stand up if all the seats were taken. After a long day, Rosa Parks sat down on the bus. The bus was filling up and the driver told her to give up her seat to a white person. She refused to give up.
2. The bus driver yelled at her over and over. She says no again and the driver went to go get a police. The police officer arrested her for a very short time.

(Q) Supreme Court bans segregated seating on buses in Montgomery

Nov 13, 1956

1. Montgomery, Alabama
2. Thanks to Rosa Park's bus for not giving her seat up and MLK Jr. for leading bus boycotts. Park's actions inspired people to not ride Montgomery buses and organized car pools (ran by MLK Jr. ). Soon the Supreme Court against segregation on their buses and overruled by the police chief. Two months later federal district court, ruled that segregation was unconstitutional. It was then ran by the Supreme Court and banned segregation on Montgomery bus systems.
   

(D) Events at Little Rock, Arkansas

Sep 5, 1957

1. 9 African American students enrolled into Little Rock Central High School. The governor Orval Faubus ordered the National Gaurd to prevent the kids from entering the school. This was then brought to Eisenhower's attention, he told Orval that this action is unconstitutional. Then Orval removed the National Guard. Once the students were able to attend the high school, riots broke out. Eisenhower ordered Federal Troops to go to the school.
2. Eisenhower called Federal troops to protect them.

(C) Civil Rights Act of 1957

Sep 9, 1957

1. President Eisenhower passed this law.
2. This law states that there can't be any discrimination for voting.

(E) Attack of the Freedom Riders

May 4, 1961

1. Free Riders scheduled tons bus rides to the south and protested against segregation. They used white only things or had sit ins.
2. CORE and the SNCC
3. No, Freedom Riders were not only African Americans, whites joined in too.
   

(F) James Meredith enrolls at Ole Miss

Sep 30, 1962

1. When he enrolled riots broke out killing some and injuring many.
2. To stop the riots, Robert Kennedy sent tons of Federal Guards and other forces
   

(G) Medgar Evers Assassinated

Jun 12, 1963

1. He was a African American activist. He was part of the NAACP.
2. It all started with threats he had received for many years because he was an important figure in the NAACP. He was shot on June 12th, 1963 in his drive way. Bryon De La Beckwith was a prime suspect and was on trial twice. During the second trial he was set free.
   

(H) The March on Washington

Aug 28, 1963

1. The purpose of the march was to show the political and social problems for African Americans. They were also protesting for jobs and freedom.
   
2. The famous speech that was given was the "I Have a Dream" by Martin Luther King.

(P) Virgil Lamar Ware shot

Sep 15, 1963

1. Birmingham, Alabama
2. Just a few hours after the bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, Virgil and his older brother went for a bike ride. While riding their bikes, Michael Lee Farley and Larry Joe Sims two 16 white boys thought it would be funny to shoot a handgun to scare the Ware siblings. Misfiring the gun, it hit Virgil in the chest and the face, killing him instantly. Sims did confess to accidentally shooting him. Both of the boys faced a second-degree manslaughter.

(N) The bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church

Sep 15, 1963

1. Birmingham, Alabama.
2. Just before a regular Sunday morning service a bomb went off in the Church. The bombings killed Addie Mae Collins, Cynthia Wesley and Carole Robertson and Denise McNair, and injured many other people. This church was a main target for the KKK because it was an all black church and it was used as a meeting place for civil rights leaders.
   

(I) Civil Rights Act of 1964

Jul 2, 1964

1. President Johnson passed this law.
2. This law stated that its unconstitutional to discriminant based on sex, race, color, origin and religion in the United States.

(J) March to Selma

Mar 7, 1965

1. The purpose of the march was to gain voting rights for African Americans in the South.
2. They faced very violent encounters with people against African American voting rights.
3. The outcome was that the Voting Rights Act was passed. It allowed African Americans to vote without taking literally tests or any other tests that would restrict them from being able to vote.
   

(M) Oneal Moore's assassination

Jun 2, 1965

1. Oneal Moore murder case.
2. Varnado, Louisiana.
3. Moore was the first black sheriff apart of the force in Varnado. He was driving home from work when a truck pulled up next to him and shot throw the window. There were two suspects in this murder, Ernest Ray McElveen as the prime suspect.

(K) Thurgood Marshall first black Supreme Court Justice

Jun 13, 1967

1. He was a lawyer that fought to desegregate public schools in the Brown v. Board of Education case.
2. This was a monumental event because He was the first black person to be on the Supreme Court. It showed the discrimination has faded and the society is becoming united.
   

(L) The Assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King

Apr 4, 1968

1. Martin Luther King was staying at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis. A sniper shot him straight in the neck, landing him into a hospital. He was killed by James Earl Ray.
2. MLK Jr. had a big impact on both whites and blacks because he was a huge impact on this world today, all the things he has done its been for a large group and not for him. He made this world a more fair and equal. He also demonstrated how to fight with words. MLK never used violence in any way.