1. CORE sets up bus trips through South to test Jim Crow Laws
The Fight for Equality
CORE sets up bus trips through South to test Jim Crow Laws
Known as the Freedom Riders
Met with resistance all the way, Alabama buses are burned
JFK sends federal Marshalls to protect them

2. Fighting school segregation becomes a focus
School Integration
Fighting school segregation becomes a focus
James Meredith becomes 1st black enrolled at U of Mississippi
Riots occur, Feds get involved

3. All aspects of life are segregated MLK organizes a Good Friday march
Birmingham, Alabama
All aspects of life are segregated
MLK organizes a Good Friday march
HE writes Letter from a Birmingham Jail
Children’s march organized later almost 1000 kids arrested
TV coverage of arrests and economic boycott wins the fight
JFK sends troops to desegregate U of Alabama

4. Medgar Evers killed in 1963, killer not convicted until 1994
Setbacks
Medgar Evers killed in 1963, killer not convicted until 1994
16th Street Baptist Church bombing, 4 killed
JFK assassinated

5. MLK gives his “I Have dream Speech”
March on Washington
JFK sends his civil rights bill to Congress, that prompts a march in August 1963
MLK gives his “I Have dream Speech”

6. Civil Rights Act of 1964 passed
CORE and SNCC organize Freedom Summer to register black voters
4 workers killed, 85 badly beaten, black churches, homes, businesses burned

7. A compromise is reached between the Dems and MFDP
1964 Election
Looking for representation in the ‘64 convention, the MFDP was formed by Hamer
LBJ feared losing white votes in the South, so he didn’t support them 100%
A compromise is reached between the Dems and MFDP

8. Only 1% of blacks were registered to vote there
Selma, Alabama 1965
Only 1% of blacks were registered to vote there
MLK protest march put down by police, Jimmie Lee Jackson killed
March to protest his death was broken up by police
March 21 Feds protect MLK and 3000 marchers, when they reach Montgomery there were 25000
2 months later Voting Rights Act of 1965 passed