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"... Until Justice Rolls Down Like Waters And Righteousness Like A Mighty Stream"0
-- Martin Luther King, Jr.
17 May 1954 Supreme Court Outlaws School Segregation In Brown Vs. Board Of Education
7 May 1955 Rev. George Lee Killed For Leading Voter Registration Drive Belzoni, Ms
13 Aug 1955 Lamar Smith Murdered For Organizing Black Voters Brookhaven, Ms
28 Aug 1955 Emmett Louis Till Youth Murdered For Speaking To White Woman Money, Ms
22 Oct 1955 John Earl Reese Slain By Nightriders Opposed To Black School Improvements Mayflower, Tx
1 Dec 1955 Rosa Parks Arrested For Refusing To Give Up Her Seat On Bus To A White Man Montgomery, Al
5 Dec 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott Begins
13 Nov 1956 Supreme Court Bans Segregated Seating On Montgomery Buses
23 Jan 1957 Willie Edwards Jr. Killed By Klan Montgomery, Al
29 Aug 1957 Congress Passes First Civil Rights Act Since Reconstruction
24 Sep 1957 President Eisenhower Orders Federal Troops To Enforce School Desegregation Little Rock, Ar
25 Apr 1959 Mack Charles Parker Taken From Jail And Lynched Poplarville, Ms
1 Feb 1960 Black Students Stage Sit-In At "Whites Only" Lunch Counter Greensboro, Nc
5 Dec 1960 Supreme Court Outlaws Segregation In Bus Terminals
14 May 1961 Freedom Riders Attacked In Alabama While Testing Compliance With Bus Desecration Laws
25 Sep 1961 Herbert Lee Voter Registration Worker Killed By White Legislator Liberty, Ms
I Apr 1962 Civil Rights Groups Join Forces To Launch Voter Registration Drive
9 Apr 1962 Cpl. Roman Ducksworth Jr. Taken From Bus And Killed By Police Taylorsville, Ms
30 Sep 1962 Riots Erupt When James Meredith, A Black Student, Enrolls At Ole Miss
30 Sep 1962 Paul Guihard European Reporter Killed During Ole Miss Riot Oxford, Ms
23 Apr 1963 William Lewis Moore Slain During One-Man March Against Segregation Attalla, Al
3 May 1963 Birmingham Police Attack Marching Children With Dogs And Fire Hoses
11 Jun 1963 Alabama Governor Stands In Schoolroom Door To Stop University Integration
12 Jun 1963 Medgar Evers Civil Rights Leader Assassinated Jackson, Ms
28 Aug 1963 250,000 Americans March On Washington For Civil Rights
15 Sep 1963 Addie Mae Collins -- Denise McNair -- Carole Robertson -- Cynthia Wesley -- Schoolgirls Killed In Bombing Of 16th St. Baptist Church Birmingham, Al
15 Sep 1963 Virgil Lamar Ware Birmingham, Al Youth Killed During Wave Of Racist Violence
23 Jan 1964 Poll Tax Outlawed In Federal Elections
31 Jan 1964 Louis Allen Witness To Murder Of Civil Rights Worker Assassinated Liberty, Ms
7 Apr 1964 Rev. Bruce Klunder Killed Protesting Construction Of Segregated School Cleveland, Oh
2 May 1964 Henry Hezekiah Dee -- Charles Eddie Moore Killed By Klan Meadville, Ms
20 Jun 1964 Freedom Summer Brings 1,000 Young Civil Rights Volunteers To Mississippi
21 Jun 1964 James Chaney -- Andrew Goodman -- Michael Schwerner -- Civil Rights Workers Abducted And Slain By Klan Philadelphia, Ms
2 Jul1964 President Johnson Signs Civil Rights Act of 1964
11 Jul 1964 Lt. Col. Lemuel Penn Killed By Klan While Driving North Colbert, Ga
26 Feb 1965 Jimmie Lee Jackson Civil Rights Marcher Killed By State Trooper Marion, Al
7 Mar 1965 State Troopers Beat Back Marchers At Edmund Pettus Bridge Selma, Al
11 Mar 1965 Rev. James Reeb March Volunteer Beaten To Death Selma, Al
25 Mar 1965 Civil Rights March From Selma To Montgomery Completed
25 Mar 1965 Viola Gregg Liuzzo Killed By Klan While Transporting Marchers Selma Highway, Al
2 Jun 1965 Oneal Moore Black Deputy Killed By Nightriders Varnado, La
9 Jul 1965 Congress Passes Voting Rights Act Of 1965
18 Jul 1965 Willie Wallace Brewster Killed By Nightriders Anniston, Al
20 Aug 1965 Jonathan Daniels Seminary Student Killed By Deputy Hayneville, Al
3 Jan 1966 Samuel Younge Jr. Student Civil Rights Activist Killed In Dispute Over Whites-Only Restroom Tuskegee, Al
10 Jan 1966 Vernon Dahmer Black Community Leader Killed In Klan Bombing Hattiesburg, Ms
10 Jun 1966 Ben Chester White Killed By Klan Natchez, Ms
30 Jul 1966 Clarence Triggs Slain By Nightriders Bogalusa, La
27 Feb 1967 Wharlest Jackson Civil Rights Leader Killed After Promotion To "White" Job Natchez, Ms
12 May 1967 Benjamin Brown Civil Rights Worker Killed When Police Fired On Protesters Jackson, Ms
2 Oct 1967 Thurgood Marshall Sworn In As First Black Supreme Court Justice
8 Feb 1968 Samuel Hammond, Jr. -- Delano Middleton -- Henry Smith -- Students Killed When Highway Patrolmen Fired On Protesters Orangeburg, Sc
4 Apr 1968 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Assassinated Memphis, Tn |