|
11/26/45 |
Saxophonist Charlie Parker records
“Now’s the Time” with Dizzy
Gillespie, Miles Davis |
|
4/18/46 |
Jackie Robinson signs with Brooklyn
Dodgers, beginning demise of Negro
Leagues |
|
1877 – mid-60s |
Jim Crow laws in effect |
|
1916-1970 |
Great Migration brings more than
500,000 African Americans from South
to urban North |
|
1950s – 1980s |
Thermal fogging trucks used
extensively to control mosquitoes |
|
8/28/55 |
Emmett Till murdered |
|
12/01/55 |
Rosa Parks arrested for refusing to
give up her bus seat |
|
12/05/55 |
Montgomery Bus Boycott begins |
|
1956 |
Alternative newspaper
Chicago Defender
becomes a daily |
|
11/13/56 |
US Supreme Court rules segregation
on buses unconstitutional (Browder
v. Gayle, 352 US 903) |
|
2/14/57 |
Ella Baker starts Southern Christian
Leadership Conference with Dr. King
in Atlanta |
|
9/15/57 |
Little Rock 9 successfully enter
Little Rock Central High School |
|
May 1958 |
Clennon King committed to Whitfield
Mental Hospital after attempting to
enroll at Ole Miss |
|
2/01/60 |
Woolworth sit-ins begin in
Greensboro, North Carolina |
|
1/20/61 |
President John F. Kennedy
inaugurated |
|
1/25/61 |
President Kennedy holds 1st
presidential press conference |
|
3/04/61 |
F2 tornado devastates Chicago’s
South Side |
|
10/01/62 |
James Meredith’s enrollment at Ole
Miss sparks riots |
|
January 1963 |
Chicago Area Friends of SNCC
(Student Nonviolent Coordinating
Committee) founded |
|
5/28/63 |
Woolworth’s sit-in in Jackson, MS,
most violently attacked of 1960s |
|
6/12/63 |
Medgar Evers assassinated |
|
July 1963 |
CCCO (NAACP, Friends of SNCC, CORE,
Woodlawn Org.) calls for Chicago
“Freedom Movement” |
|
8/28/63 |
March on Washington |
|
9/15/63 |
Birmingham’s 16th Street Baptist
Church bombed |
|
10/22/63 |
Mass boycott of Chicago public
schools, known as “Anti-Willis
Freedom Day” |
|
11/22/63 |
President Kennedy assassinated |
|
1964 |
College students recruited to join
Mississippi Summer Project |
|
6/21/64 |
2nd session of orientation for
Mississippi Summer Project
volunteers begins in Oxford, Ohio |
|
6/21/64 |
Civil rights workers James Chaney,
Andrew Goodman, and Mickey Schwerner
reported missing |
|
7/02/64 |
President Lyndon B. Johnson signs
Civil Rights Act |
|
7/21-23/64 |
Wednesdays in Mississippi
Washington/Maryland Team visits
Jackson and Meridian |
|
8/04/64 |
Bodies of slain civil rights workers
James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and
Mickey Schwerner found |
|
8/04/64 |
Pete Seeger performs at Meridian’s
Mt. Olive Baptist Church |
|
8/07/64 |
James Chaney’s funeral held at First
Union Baptist Church |
|
8/08/64 |
Statewide Mississippi Freedom School
Convention held |
|
8/08/64 |
Neshoba County Fair opens in
Philadelphia, MS |
|
8/24-27/64 |
National Democratic Convention held
in Atlantic City |
|
8/25/64 |
Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
attempts to be seated |
|
6/14/65 |
Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights
Under Law opens Jackson, MS, office
with full-time staff |
|
8/06/65 |
President Lyndon B. Johnson signs
Voting Rights Act |
|
5/28/68 |
Reform Temple Beth Israel in
Meridian, MS, bombed |
|
7/20/69 |
Neil Armstrong is 1st person to walk
on moon |
|
7/20/69 |
Highland Park pool integrated in
Meridian, MS |
|
9/05/69 |
US Supreme Court orders statewide
desegregation of Mississippi schools
(Alexander v. Holmes) |