TIMELINE: ROLL CALL OF CHAPTERS IN THE CONTEXT OF THE STRUGGLE FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE AND RACIAL EQUITY
and Archibald A. Alex- ander, Governor of the Virgin Islands;
1955
Walker
Emmett Till, 14, is lynched in Mississippi for allegedly whistling at a White woman in a grocery store. His murderers were acquitted, thereafter admitting to killing Till. His mother insisted on an open casket funeral bring- ing full attention to the injustice across the world. — In Brown II , the U.S. Supreme Court rules that desegregation must occur with "all deliberate speed."
Mallory C. Walker, an Immigration and Naturali- zation Examiner; Mem- ber of the United States Organization (USO);
Alexander
Jesse D. Locker, Ambas- sador to the Republic of Liberia; Rufus C. Kuykendall, member of the UNESCO National
∆Μ ∆Ν The Long Island Universi- ty-Brooklyn Chapter, the Delta Mu of Kappa Alpha Psi is chartered. — The Eastern Michigan University Chapter the Delta Nu of Kappa Alpha Psi is chartered. — Alumni Chapters of Kap- pa Alpha Psi are chartered in the cities of Allendale C. Rodger Wilson be- comes the 16 th Grand Polemarch and served from 1955-1961. — (SC)*, Akron (SC), As- bury Park-Neptune (NJ), East St. Louis (IL) and Lake Charles (LA). — Executive Order 10590 signed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower establishes the President's Committee on Govern- ment Policy to enforce a nondiscrimination policy in federal employment. — Mississippi enacts laws to impose fines and jail time for Whites to attend school with Blacks.
Rucker
Alvin M. Rucker, Em- ployment and Labor Standards Advisor for the Philippines;
Kuykendall
Commission; Brig. Gen. Richard L. Jones (ret.), Director of the U.S. Foreign Opera- tions Mission to Liberia;
Refusing to give up her seat in Montgomery, AL, Claudette Colvin, 15, becomes one of four plaintiffs in Browder v. Gayle . Later that year, Rosa Parks sparks the Montgom- ery Bus Boycott with her refusal.
Richardson
Scovel Richardson, Chairman of the U.S. Parole Board and Doug- las Edward H. Williams, member of the Federal Hospital Council of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare.
Jones
Ullysses G. Plummer, Jr., Esq. attorney for the Booneville Power Administration,
Plummer
Williams
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