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Rosa Parks
She was an African American civil activist and was called "the mother of the freedom movement." -
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Malcolm X
He was an Af. Am. Muslim minister and human rights activist. He didn't like Martin Luther King's way of nonviolence and wanted people to be violent. -
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Martin Luther King Jr.
He was a leader in the African American Civil Rights Movement. And he is most known for his nonviolent civil disobedience. -
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Brown vs. Board of Education
Black children were not allowed to go to a white school. The schools approached equality through buildings and education. -
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Montgomery Bus Boycott
Rosa Parks was arrested for sitting in a white persons seat and refused to move. Blacks protested the segregation of bus seating in Alabama. -
Freedom Summer
An attempt to register as many African American voters as possible in Mississippi. It also set up freedom schools, houses, and community centers in Mississippi. -
Million Man March
Political demonstration in Washinton D.C. to promote African American unity and family values.
