The Civil Rights Movement

By cbeeman
  • Brown Vs Board

    They outawed racial segregation in public schools.
  • The opposing of black segragation

    Blacks in Montgomery, Alabama organized a boycot of city buses in protest of the policy of segragated seating.
  • SCLC

    A national organization presided over by a black minister Martin Luther King Jr.
  • Little Rock

    When the local school board admitted nine black students to the city's previous all white High School.
  • Another Important Organization

    A major incedent led to the founding of another important organization and excpanded the movements participants to include college age blacks.
  • Voting Rights

    Most allegable black voters in the south remained disfranchised right before WW2.
  • CORE

    Organized the Freedom Riders of 1961
  • King's Arrival

    King arrived in the spring of 1963 and with Shuttlesworth, led non-violent deminstartions on how to repeal against whites.
  • Deep South

    As late as 1969 15 year after brown only one % of black students in the deep south states were attendding public school with rights