TIMELINE: ROLL CALL OF CHAPTERS IN THE CONTEXT OF THE STRUGGLE FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE AND RACIAL EQUITY
1955
Kuykendall
Rucker
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."
Commission; Brig. Gen. Richard L. Jones (ret.), Director of the U.S. Foreign Opera- tions Mission to Liberia;
Dr. Rufus E. Clement, Member of the United States Organization (USO); Alvin M. Rucker, Employment and Labor Standards Advisor for the Philippines; Scovel Richardson, Chairman of the U.S. Parole Board
∆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 (SC), Akron (SC), Asbury Park-Neptune (NJ), East St. Louis (IL) and Lake Charles (LA). — Executive Order 10590 signed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower establishes the President's C. Rodger Wilson be- comes the 16 th Grand Polemarch and served from 1955-1961. — 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.
Jones
Ullysses G. Plummer, Jr., Esq. attorney for the Booneville Power Administration,
Richardson
and Douglas Edward H. Williams, member of the Federal Hospital Coun- cil of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare.
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.
Plummer
Mallory C. Walker, an Im- migration and Naturaliza- tion Examiner;
Williams
The District of Columbia and Baltimore, Maryland moves to end segregation in education.
Walker
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