Civil rights

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  • Brown vs board of Education

    Brown vs board of Education

    1. This fight was for the blacks that had rights to do what they want.
    2. But the whites still tried to take away their rights to do other things that they are allowed.
    3. So this is what lead for blacks to fight for their own rights.
  • Murder of Emmett Till

    Murder of Emmett Till

    1. 14 year old boy accused for whistling at a white woman
    2. Ray Bryant and Jim Milan kidnapped, beat, shot and killed and than threw his body in the river.
    3. Sparks the civil war.
  • Rosa Park

    Rosa Park

    1. Rosa park was accused for bus boycott
    2. This was because she broke a law back then that didn’t allow her race to sit in front of the bus instead of back and later she got killed.
    3. This incident led to others to riot and start to protest against the Jim Crow laws.
  • Southern Christian leadership conference

    Southern Christian leadership conference

    1. Started after the bus boycott to organize protest.
    2. Martin Luther king ,was elected president.
    3. Organized protest around the south to coordinate events.
    4. Still exists today
  • Little Rock 9

    Little Rock 9

    Testing Brown vs Board of education decision
    9 students were vetted to undergo this test
    Airborn 101 escorted students to class
    Following year all public schools closed (1958)
    Aug 29 1959-schools reopened
  • Greensboro, North Carolina Sit in

    Greensboro, North Carolina Sit in

    4 college students sat down at a lunch counter at woolwolfs to be served. They were refused service. Continue to do sit ins and it spread to other towns forced a change
  • Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and Freedom Summer

    Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and Freedom Summer

    Youth group of students remained fiercely independent of MLK and SCLC, generating their own projects and strategies. The two organizations worked side by side throughout the early years of the civil rights movement. This group was the second half of the Freedom rider and were a part of the March to Selma
  • Freedom riders

    Freedom riders

    2 week bus trip to the Deep South, to deliberately violate Jim Crow laws. It was organized by core. The buses were burned and riders beaten up by the KKK. Nov 1, 1961 white and colored signs are removed from bus stations, train stations and lunch counters.
  • March on Washington

    March on Washington

    For jobs and freedom was to aduocate for the civil and economic rights of African Americans. 250,000 people were in attendance at the Lincoln memorial. MLK was the last to speak, and gave his “I have a dream speech” 70-80% of marchers were black it helped pass the civil rights act of 1964
  • Civil rights act of 1964

    Civil rights act of 1964

    Can not be refused service
    Against any person on grounds of race, color, religion, sex, physical disability or age in job related matters
    Prohibition discrimination against race, color, religion, national origin, sex, or physical disability.
  • March on Selma/Bloody Sunday

    March on Selma/Bloody Sunday

    600 students marched form Selma to Montgomery, Alabama to get the right to vote. They walked to Selma and were stopped at the bridge. Seen on national television. LBJ order the passage of 1965 voting right laws. 2 march took place March 21-24 with 25000 marchers including MLK
  • Voting rights act of 1965

    Voting rights act of 1965

    One of the most comprehensive pieces of legislation in US history. Blacks were registering to vote and being selected to public office.

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