Civil rights movment 1

civil rights movment

By lars rasmussen

  • klu klux klan

    the kkk a anti black assocation that was very violent at the peak had over 4oo,ooo,ooo members

  • Plessy v. Ferguson

    The U.S. Supreme Court decision in Plessy v. Ferguson upheld an 1890 Louisiana statute mandating racially segregated but equal railroad cars.s

  • naacp

    The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) was founded

  • Brown v. Board of Education

    the u.s supreme cort unaminisly vote that the the segragation of schools in Topeka, Kansas was unconstetutional. this over turned the 1896 plessy v. firguson ruleing seperat but equal.

  • emit till

    while visiting family in mississippy emit till a 14 year-old was beaten shote and bumped in to the Tallahatchie River for allegedly whistling at a white woman.

  • rosa parks

    rosa parks was sitting on a bus on dec 1 1955 a white man came on the bus and asked fro her seat she refused to move an dwaas arested

  • bus boycott

    mlk the leader of the mia started the the bus boycott of Montgomery was started the black comunity didnt ride the bus

  • SCLC

    mlk, charels steel, and Fred L. Shuttlesworth started the sclc latter beacame a major player in the civil rights movment speerheaded by marten luther king jr

  • little rock nine

    a formanaly all white hight school central little rock, nine black students were sent there but when they arived they were blocked out orders of the govener Orval Fabus.

  • Medgar Evers

    Medgar Evers was a 34 year old was murderd out side his home in1963 in jackson mississippy. Byron De La Beckwith was tried 2 and ended up with a hung jury 30 yaers latter was convictide of the murder of Medgar Evers.

  • james meredith

    James Meredith became the first black student at mississippy university. there was riots and violents sorronding this john f. kennedy sent over 5,00 federal troops to help stop the riots