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Civil Rights The Fight for Equality

1888 Legal segregation begins in Mississippi with a law that segregated passengers on trains.

1896 Supreme Court rules in Plessy v. Ferguson that segregation is legal as long as the facilities are equal. This case established the separate-but-equal concept.

1954 Supreme Court rules in Brown v. Board of Education that segregation in the schools was unconstitutional. The ruling stated that the fact that schools were separate made them inherently unequal.

Thurgood Marshall

1955 Fourteen-year-old Emmett Till is murdered in Money, Mississippi for allegedly speaking to a white woman in a store.

Carolyn Bryant

Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam

Rosa Parks is arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a city bus. 1955 Rosa Parks is arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a city bus.

1957 9 African American teens are escorted into Little Rock Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas.

1960 Ruby Bridges became the first African American child to attend a white school in Louisiana.

James Meredith becomes the first African American to attend Ole Miss. 1962 James Meredith becomes the first African American to attend Ole Miss.

1963 Dr. Martin Luther King delivers his famous “I Have a Dream” speech at the March on Washington.

Fannie Lou Hamer is arrested, jailed, and beaten in Winona, MS. 1963 Fannie Lou Hamer is arrested, jailed, and beaten in Winona, MS.

1963 Medgar Evers is murdered in the driveway of his home by Byron De La Beckwith.

1964 Freedom Summer: Campaign designed to register African American voters. Over 1,000 people volunteered knowing that they were risking their safety.

Volunteers

Volunteers

James Chaney, Michael Schwerner, and Andrew Goodman

Philadelphia, MS

Edgar Ray Killen

1964 Civil Rights Act is passed on July 2, 1964 under President Kennedy outlawing segregation in public places.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is assassinated in Memphis, TN. 1968 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is assassinated in Memphis, TN.

Who killed Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.? James Earl Ray Who killed Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.?

Most Mississippi schools integrated peacefully in the 1970s.