Soul+on+Ice+-+Timeline

1896- Plessy v. Ferguson 1954- Brown v. Board of Education 1955- Montgomery, Alabama bus boycott started by Rosa Parks' act of courage in refusing to give up her seat to a white man 1956- Montgomery bus boycott ends with integration of the buses. 1956- Emmett Louis "Bobo" Till is murdered at age 14 for allegedly whistling at a white woman. 1958- Cleaver on Parole 1963- Medgar Evers, civil rights leader in Mississippi murdered 1964- Three college-age civil rights workers, one Black and two White, murdered in Mississippi. "Mississippi Burning" 1965- Eldridge Cleaver writes //Soul on Ice// 1965- Watts (Los Angeles, CA) riots 1965- National Voting Rights Act of 1965 (reinforces the 15th Amendment ) 1968- //Soul On Ice// published. Made the top 10 on New York Times Bestseller List twice in summer of '68.