Civil Rights Movement Chyanne Hamlin

By ChyanneHamlin
  • Brown v. Board of Education

    Brown v. Board of Education

    1. Plessy v. Fergueson
    2. Linda Brown wanted to go to the public school near her house and get a better education. So she went to school and started riots.
    3. Linda Brown was allowed to go to school
  • Rosa Parks

    Rosa Parks

    1. Rosa Parks refused to give her seat to a white man who got on the bus and was then arrested for not abiding by segregation
    2. It sparked an uprising and gave people hope and the will to fight.
  • Montgomery Bus Boycott

    Montgomery Bus Boycott

    African American refused to ride buses when they continued to be segregated.
  • Civil Rights Act of 1957

    Civil Rights Act of 1957

    1. Congress
    2. The Law stated that it was illegal to try and take away blacks voting rights.
  • Little Rock, Kansas

    Little Rock, Kansas

    1. President Eisenhower sends federal troops to enforce desegregation In Little Rock, Kansas because nine black students want to attend a nicer school and the only one is all white. The governor tries to force them out. 2.They had military personal with them at all times in school and drove them to school with big guns.
  • Attack of The Freedom Riders

    Attack of The Freedom Riders

    1. They rode buses down to the deep south to protest segregation 2.CORE 3.No, all races joined but the majority was black
  • James Meredith Enrolls at Ole Miss

    James Meredith Enrolls at Ole Miss

    1. Riots of radical racists broke out against him attending the university. 2.They did little. JFK argued with the governor of Mississippi
  • Birmingham Police

    Birmingham Police

    The police of Birmingham Alabama attacked black children with fire hoses and dogs.
  • Medgar Evers Assassinated

    Medgar Evers Assassinated

    1. An African American civil rights activist who worked against the university of Mississippi
    2. He was shot in the back walking up to his house while his two small children could only watch in terror.
  • The March On Washington

    The March On Washington

    1. Jobs and Freedom
    2. I Have a Dream
  • Virgil Lamar Ware Murdered

    Virgil Lamar Ware Murdered

    A young boy in Birmingham Alabama was murdered by two whites for him being black.
  • Poll tax outlawed

    Poll tax outlawed

    Poll Tax was outlawed on federal elections so that African Americans could afford to vote.
  • Civil Rights Act of 1964

    Civil Rights Act of 1964

    1. Congress
    2. Outlawed Discrimination
  • Viola Gregg Liuzzo Kills Klansmen

    Viola Gregg Liuzzo Kills Klansmen

    She was assassinated in Selma by a Klansman for helping people in the march and being a civil rights activist.
  • March on Selma

    March on Selma

    1. Selma was very racist and the government wasn't enforcing the Civil rights Act
    2. Violent racist white. They were even Beaten.
    3. Raised awareness and showed the people what was going on
  • Thurgood Marshall

    Thurgood Marshall

    1. He was a civil rights activist
    2. He was the first black justice. That pretty important.
  • Martin Luther King jr. Assasintaion

    Martin Luther King jr. Assasintaion

    1. He was shot in his motel in Memphis TN 2.Everyone looked up to him as a very important leader. He gave people hope.