Civil Rights Movement Hunter Weber

By HunterWeber
  • Brown v. Board of Education

    Brown v. Board of Education

    1. Plessy v. Ferguson
    2. Whites went to white schools, blacks went to black schools
    3. separate schools for whits and blacks are unconstitutional.
  • Rosa Parks Arrested

    Rosa Parks Arrested

    1. On buses whits sit tin the back of the bus and blacks sit in the front. Rosa did not give up her seat in the back.
    2. She was fined 10$ and 4$ in court costs.
  • Civil Rights Act

    Civil Rights Act

    1. Dwight D. Eisenhower passed the law.
    2. To protect individuals rights and to give people equal protection
  • Little Rock Arkansas

    Little Rock Arkansas

    1. 9 Blacks were sent to Central high school to go to school. Central high was an all white school at the time. Governor Orval sent the National Guard to stop them from entering the school.
    2. Eisenhower put the guards under federal control to stop the violence.

  • Taken from jail

    1. Poplasville Mississippi
    2. Mack Charles was taken from and Popasville jail and was lynched.
  • Freedom Riders

    Freedom Riders

    1. They rode interstate buses into the segregated south.
    2. Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)
    3. Whites joined in as well
  • James Meredith Roles at Ole Miss

    James Meredith Roles at Ole Miss

    1. A fight between Southern segregationist civilians and federal and state forces
    2. JFK sent 31,000 federal and National guardsmen to enforce order

  • Schoolhouse interigation

    1. Alabama
    2. Govener George Wallace stands in the door way to stop university interigation
  • Medgar Evers assination

    Medgar Evers assination

    1.He was an African American civil rights activist. Who worked to overturn segregation at the University of Mississippi
    2. Evers became the first African American to become the first field secretary for the NAACP in Mississippi.
  • March on Washington

    March on Washington

    1. The march was for jobs and freedom in the nations capitol.
    2. I Have a Dream
  • Civil Rights act 1964

    Civil Rights act 1964

    1. Lyndon b. Johnson
    2. It outlawed discrimination based on race, color, sex, or religion
  • March to Selma

    March to Selma

    1. To make a voter registered campaign
    2. large crowds, angry white protesters, and a lot of violence
    3. The president signed the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

  • Civil rights leader killed

    1. Natchez Mississippi
    2. Civil rights leader Wharlest Jackson killed after promotion to a 'white' job
  • Thurgood Marshall

    Thurgood Marshall

    1. He had successfully argued so many times before in court cases.
    2. He was the first African American to become a justice of the Supreme court.

  • Students killed

    1. Orangeburg South Carolina
    2. Three students killed in protest by highway patrolmen fire.
  • Assassination of MLK

    Assassination of MLK

    1. MLK was shot in a Memphis hotel.
    2. The biggest leader to the African Americans was killed. He was the one that got them their rights.

  • Marching students killed

    1. Birmingham
    2. Children killed with dogs and fire hoses.