Civil Rights Movement

By abbie Bowland

  • Brown v. Board of Education

    Brown v. Board of Education
    1. The Plessy v. Ferguson
    2. An African American girl was denied admission to her neighborhood school because of her race.
    3. It helped state that segregation of public schools was unconstitutional and violated the Fourteenth Amendment.

  • Rosa Parks arrested for refusing to give up her seat?

    Rosa Parks arrested for refusing to give up her seat?
    1.Rosa Parks sat right behind where the "white section" ended on the bus. But when the bus got crowded at the next stop and the "white" people section was filled up, the bus driver ordered the African Americans to give up their seat for a white. Rosa parks refused, she then went under arrest.
    2. This act from Rosa parks help not only help bus integration but help civil rights movement all together.

  • Montgomery Bus Boycott

    Montgomery Bus Boycott
    1. This event happened in Montgomery Alabama
    2. Many African Americans chose to avoid the bus transportation and not give them their service. Instead all of the boycott participants walked to their destinations. Also some African Americans volunteered to use their cars as taxis for other protesters. The boycott was a dramatic success.

  • Civil Rights Act of 1957

    Civil Rights Act of 1957
    1. President Eisenhower signed the act but then it was later passed by congress.
    2. This law helped the rights to vote for colored people.

  • Events at Little Rock, Arkansas

    Events at Little Rock, Arkansas
    1. 8 African American high school kids were admitted to little rock high school, an all whites school. The governor of Arkansas Faubus called in the National Guard to not allow the black students to enter, he didn't approve of the integration. All the commotion caused mobs to break loose and a lot of chaos.
    2. The president ordered armed soldiers to guard and protect the students during the school day and make sure they were not harassed by other white students.

  • Mack Charles Parker

    Mack Charles Parker
    1. This event happened in Poplarville Mississippi
    2. Mack Charles was killed by being lynched because he was accused of raping a pregnant white women. Then after being put in jail he was kidnapped from the jail by a mod and was beaten and shot to his death.

  • Sit-in act in North Carolina

    Sit-in act in North Carolina
    1. This event happened in North Carolina.
    2. College students became discouraged by the show pace of desegregation. so many of the Black students protested with a sit-in located at a "whites only" restaurant. The students remained nonviolent through the process as they were provoked by whites.

  • Attack of the Freedom Riders

    Attack of the Freedom Riders
    1.The Freedom Riders were a group of African American and white people that traveled into the south to draw attention to the south's refusal to integrate bus terminals.
    2. The CORE group helped form the Freedom Riders
    3. the Freedom Riders was a mix of African American and White people.

  • James Meredeth enrolls at Ole Miss

    James Meredeth enrolls at Ole Miss
    1.The governor of Mississippi denied his enrollment.
    2.President Kennedy ordered 500 federal marshals to escort Meredith to the campus.

  • Medgar Evers Assassination

    Medgar Evers Assassination
    1. Medgar Evers was a civil rights activist.
    2. He received many threats and acts of violence toward him and his family. The worst thing they had received was a fire bombing right at their house . Then when he was standing on his driveway he was shot in the back of the head.

  • The March on Washington

    The March on Washington
    1.To try to influence the Congress to pass the civil rights bill and to gain more public support for the civil rights movement.
    2.Martin Luther King Jr.'s " I have a dream" speech was given in Washington.

  • March to Selma

    March to Selma
    1. The march to Selma was organized to keep pressure on the president and Congress.
    2. A day known as "Bloody Sunday" left 70 African Americans hospitalized and many more injured.
    3. The president saw the footage of "Bloody Sunday " on the television and got very mad. A couple days later he appeared before a nationally televised joint session of the legislature to propose a new voting rights law.

  • Civil Rights Act of 1964

    Civil Rights Act of 1964
    1.President Johnson passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
    2. The law gave the federal government broad power to prevent racial discrimination in a number of areas.

  • James Reeb

    James Reeb
    1. This event happened in Selma Alabama
    2. Reeb was participating in the voting rights movement march, but was murdered by white segregationist by being severely beaten.

  • The Voting Rights Act of 1965

    The Voting Rights Act of 1965
    1. This event happened in Washington D.C
    2. The House of Representatives passed this law by a wide margin. The results were dramatic. By the end of the year almost 250000 African Americans were registered as new voters.

  • Thurgood Marshall first black Supreme Court Justice

    Thurgood Marshall first black Supreme Court Justice
    1. Thurgood took part in being a staff member of the NAACP before becoming a Supreme Court Justice.
    2. This event was a monumental event because African Americans are now being more respected and earning more rights. Before very few black people had jobs in the government so this is a huge step in the movement.

  • The Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.

    The Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
    1. MLK Jr. went to Memphis Tennessee to support an African American Sanitation workers. He stood on a balcony of a hotel in Memphis when a sniper shot him to his death.
    2. MLK Jr. moved many people with his perseverance towards the movement and how he made things happen.