Civil Rights Movement Sydney Lab

By sydneylab
  • Brown v. Board of Education

    Brown v. Board of Education

    1. Plessy v. Ferguson
    2. A little African American girl tried to go to a white school
    3. It ended federal tolerance to racial segregation
  • Rosa Parks arrested for refusing to give up her bus seat

    Rosa Parks arrested for refusing to give up her bus seat

    1. Rosa Parks went to go onto a public bus and she was too tired to go to the back of the bus, so instead she sat in the front. When a white person tried to tell her to get up she refused to move and was arrested
    2. The African Americans were mad at the way they were treated so they boycotted riding the buses which made the bus system lose money
  • Willie Edwards JR.

    Willie Edwards JR.

    Killed by Klansmen
    Montgomery, Alabama
  • Civil Rights Act of 1957

    Civil Rights Act of 1957

    1. President Eisenhower
    2. Allowed African Americans to vote and integrated schools
  • Events at Little Rock, Arkansas

    Events at Little Rock, Arkansas

    1. 9 black students tried to go to a white school and mobs of angry people threatened them, hurt them, and assaulted them
    2. The government sent out the national guard to surround the black students and protect them when they went to and from school everyday
  • Mack Charles Parker

    Mack Charles Parker

    Taken from jail and lynched
    Poplarville, Mississippi
  • Attack of the Freedom Riders

    Attack of the Freedom Riders

    1. The Freedom Riders rode the buses because they were allowed to so that they could protest the south's refusal to integrate buses and that made white Americans very mad
    2. Martin Luther King and the NAACP helped support the Freedom Riders
    3. The Freedom Riders were not just African Americans but they were also white Americans who didn't like how blacks were treated
  • James Meredith enrolls at Ole Miss

    James Meredith enrolls at Ole Miss

    1. White mobs were mad at him and tried to hurt him and harass him to try and make him leave. They threatened him and tried to hurt him
    2. They gave him a soldier to protect him when he went to school and to fight off the mobs of angry white people
  • William Lewis Moore

    William Lewis Moore

    Slain during one-man march against segregation
    Attalla, Alabama
  • Medgar Evers Assassinated

    Medgar Evers Assassinated

    1. He was a Civil Rights activist who tried to overturn segregation at the University of Mississippi 2.
  • The March on Washington

    The March on Washington

    1. To push the passage of the Civil Rights Act
    2. Martin Luther King's "I have a dream" speech was given
  • Civil Rights Act of 1964

    Civil Rights Act of 1964

    1. President Lyndon Johnson
    2. It outlawed discrimination against race, color, religion, sex, or national origin
  • March to Selma

    March to Selma

    1. To register black voting rights in the south
    2. The marchers faced angry crowds, lynching, being arrested, and threats from white Americans
    3. President Lyndon Johnson allowed them to vote no matter what
  • Oneal Moore

    Oneal Moore

    Black deputy killed by nightriders
    Varnado, Louisiana
  • Ben Chester White

    Ben Chester White

    Killed by Klansmen
    Natchez, Mississippi
  • Thurgood Marshall first black Supreme Court Justice

    Thurgood Marshall first black Supreme Court Justice

    1. He won the Brown v. Board of education and ended segregation in schools
    2. This was monumental because he was the first African American to become a supreme court justice
  • The Assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King

    The Assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King

    1. He went to go protest and help the poor in Tenessee and then he was assassinated
    2. It made an impact on whites because it made them think that everything was still going to be segregated and it made blacks sad and lose a little bit of hope for ending segregation