Show Thursday January It ThaEagla-Pag- 1992 t for F®rty liv memorial to those who lost their lives in the struggle for freedom A fir W' i'j’m II y at -- A o 0 p W V N WHfe UClilV MB 1954 - May 17 I Supreme Court outlaws school segregation in Brown vs Board of Education May 7 1955 - Rev George Lee 'VviX'e? r'Jft' Murdered because he refused to end his voter registration efforts Aug 13 Aug 28 1955 - Lamar Smith Murdered on the courthouse lawn in daylight by a white man while dozens watched No one admitted they witnessed the shooting 1955 - Emmett Louis Till Was tom from his bed by 2 men beat and shot for (14-years-o- ld) flirting with a white An all-wh- ite jury found the men not guilty 1955 - John Earl Reese Oct 22 (16-years-o- ld) Killed while dancing in a cafe when whites shots into the windows An attempt by j I Whites who were terrorizing Blacks into giving up plans for a new school Dec 1955 - Rosa Parks 1 I r 1 I Arrested for refusing to give up her seat on bus to a white man Dec 5 1955 Montgomery bus boycott begins Nov 13 1956 Supreme Court bans segregated seating on Montgomery Ala buses Jan 1957 - Willie Edwards Jr 23 Forced at gunpoint by Klansmen who never went to trial tffjump the Alabama River They thought he was dating a White woman a bridge into 1957 29 Aug off Congress passes first Civil Rights Act since reconstruction 1957 24 Sept Pres Eisenhower orders federal troops to enforce school desegregation HOCK ArK ! MacK 1959 April 25 Charles Parker Three days before his a white a masked mob took him from jail beat the Pearl River Feb trial for allegedly raping him shot him and threw him in 1960 1 Black students stage Dec at "Whites sit-i-n only" lunch counter in NC 1960 5 1961 May 14 Freedom riders attacked in Alabama while testing compliance with bus desegregation laws Sept 25 1961 - Herbert Lee Lee who worked with civil rights leader Bob Moses was gunned down by a state legislator who claimed self defense The legislator was never arrested Louis Allen a Black man who witnessed the murder was also killed 1962 - CpI April 9 Roman Ducksworth Jr A military police officer on leave from Maryland ordered off a bus by a police officer and shot 30 Sept to visit his sick wife was 1962 Riots erupt when James Meredith a Black student enrolls at Ole Mississippi Sept 30 1962 - Paul Guihard killed in gunfire from a White mob during Meredith to the U of Mississippi Was April 23 protests over admission of James 1963 - William Lewis Moore A White postman from Baltimore was shot and killed as he waked through march against segregation Alabama during a one-ma- n Birmingham police attack marching children with dogs and firehoses June 11 12 j Aug7287196:T 250000 Americans march on Washington for All four 15 Rights Collins Denise McNair Carole Robertson & Cyntia Wesley school-ag- e Sept Civil 1963 - Addle 15 Sept girls were killed by 1963 - Virgil a bomb In the Sixteenth Baptist Church L Ware (13-years-o- ld) while riding on the handlebars of his brother's bike by Whits after they came from a segregationist rally Killed Jan teen-age- rs 1964 - Louis Allen 31 witnessed the murder of Herbert Lee 3 years earlier and continually endured years of threats jailing and harassment Killed the day he was moving North He 1964 - Rev Bruce Klunder April 7 white Civil Rights activist who protested the building of segregated school by n fr°nt of construction equipment Was crushed to death when a bulldozer backed over him A May 2 1964 - Henry H Both killed by Klansmen who believed June 20 June 21 1963 Alabama governor stands June j 1964 Dee & Charles Eddie Moore they were part of a plot to arm Blacks Freedom Summer brings 1000 young Civil Rights volunteers to Mississippi 1963 May 3 j I Supreme Court outlaws segregation in bus terminals Rlghts Memorlal located ument to suffering but as a monument to hope Most of the names Immortalized on the monument are the names of ordinary people who had no political motives no I dsslre to be famous they were caught up In a struggle for freedom The circular black granite table lists the names of those killed In the struggle They are Joined by I many who's names were lost to time The lines which radiate outward like the I hands of a clock also chronicle the major events In this "civil war" Water which emerges from the table's center flows evenly across the surface allowing one to see their own reflection In the memorlaL The memorial Inspires reflection on how far we have come In the fight for equality and how far we have yet to go (Edhorjj Th CWII in Little In school house door to stop university integration 1963 - Medgar Evers Directed NAACP In Mississippi when he was shot and killed for leading an Integration campaign 1964 - James Chaney Andrew Goodman & Michael Schwerner The two White and one Black Civil Rights workers were arrested by a sheriff and released to Klansmen who shot them and buried them In an earthen dam July 2 1964 President Johnson signs Civil Rights Act of 1064 |