1. Emancipation Proclamation goes into effect 1863 James H Meredith admitted to University of Mississippi 1962 Thirteenth Amendment finalized 1865 Medgar Evers killed 1963 Byron De La Beckwith tried for Evers’ murder 1964 Byron De La Beckwith found guilty for Evers’ murder 1994 Civil Rights Act of 1964 1964 Voting Rights Act of 1965 1965 James Meredith March (Memphis to Jackson) 1966 KKK bombing of Beth Israel 1967 James Craig Anderson killed in Jackson 2011 Harvey Johnson Jr becomes first African American mayor 1997 Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat in Montgomery, AL 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott 1955 Browder v. Gayle ruling 1956 Claudette Colvin, age 15, resists bus segregation 1955 Lizzie Jennings insists on her rights to ride a streetcar in NYC 1854

2. Frederick Douglass 1818-1895 Escaped slavery to become a social reformer, social reformer, orator, writer and statesmen works A Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave 1845 My Bondage and My Freedom 1855 Life and Times of Frederick Douglass 1881, rev 1892

3. Zora Neale Hurston 1891-1960 American folklorist, anthropologist and author, prominent during the Harlem Renaissance novels Jonah’s Gourd Vine 1934 Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937 Moses, Man of the Mountain 1939 Seraph on the Suwanee 1948

4. Alice Walker 1944- American author, poet, activist, and the first African American woman to receive a Pulitzer works The Color Purple 1982 The Same River Twice: Honoring the Difficult 1996 The Way Forward is With a Broken Heart 2000