SUCCESS AND CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT

By Mitchell Gordon

  • STUDENT NONVIOLENT COORDINATING COMMITTEE

    4 African American college students Joseph McNeil, Ezell Blair Jr, David Richmond and Franklin McCain started a sit in at a Woolworths lunch counter that was for whites only. The sit in grew to more than 300 students in a week. With in 2 months it had spread to 54 cities in 9 states. The SNCC was formed

  • FREEDOM RIDERS

    Team of African American and white volunteers who became known as the Freedom Riders boarded buses in Alabama. There were angry white mobs who attacked the buses. The violence ,made national news shocking many and drawing attention to African Americans in the south

  • AFRICAN AMERICANS IN OFFICE

    President Kennedy brought approx 40 African Americans into high level government positions. He allowed the Justice Dept, run by his brother Robert to actively support the civil rights movement

  • MARTIN LUTHER KING JR

    Martin Luther King Jr launched demonstration in Alabama. he was jailed. He hoped this would get the President to actively support the civil rights moment

  • KKK BOMBING

    The Klu Klux Klan bombed a Baptist church in Birmingham killing 4 young girls. News reports of this attack on children led to greater support for the civil rights movement.

  • SIGNING OF CIVIL RIGHTS ACT

    President Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 into law. This was the most comprehensive law ever enacted.