The Civil Rights Movement Camden Benedict

By benedictca19

  • Brown v. Board of Education

    Brown v. Board of Education
    1. Plessy v. Ferguson
    2. Linda Brown was denied admission to her neighborhood school because she was black.
    3. Segregation in public schools was unconstitutional and violated the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth amendment.

  • Rosa Parks arrested for not giving her seat up to a white man

    Rosa Parks arrested for not giving her seat up to a white man
    1. Rosa Parks was sitting in a bus seat at the front of the bus and a white man told her to get up and let him have the seat and she refused to give it up and was then arrested.
    2. African Americans boycotted the bus system and protest.

  • Civil Rights Act of 1957

    Civil Rights Act of 1957
    1. Congress
    2. Protected the right of African Americans to vote.

  • Events of Little Rock, Arkansas

    Events of Little Rock, Arkansas
    1. Nine black children tried to enter Central High School but were denied access by the National Guard and angry white mobs.
    2. President Eisenhower eventually sent in 1,000 troops from the 101st Airborne Division.

  • Mack Charles Parker taken from prison and lynched

    Mack Charles Parker taken from prison and lynched
    Mack Charles Parker was an African American man who was taken from his prison and lynched in Pearl River County.

  • Attack of the Freedom Riders

    Attack of the Freedom Riders
    1. They traveled into the south to draw attention to the segregated bus system. 2.CORE
    2. Whites helped with the issue as well.

  • James Meredith enrolls at Ole Miss

    James Meredith enrolls at Ole Miss
    1. Ross Barnett denied him access.
    2. President Kennedy sent in 500 federal troops to escort Meredith to and from classes all year.

  • Medgar Evers Assassinated

    Medgar Evers Assassinated
    1. African American civil rights activist.
    2. He was shot in the back while walking to his home by white supremacist Byron Beckwith.

  • The March on Washington

    The March on Washington
    1. To build more public support for the movement.
    2. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. "I have a dream."

  • March To Selma

    March To Selma
    1. To be a focal point of the civil rights movement.
    2. Cops and armed white rioters.
    3. Over 2,000 blacks, including children, were arrested.

  • The death of Jamie Lee Jackson

    The death of Jamie Lee Jackson
    In Selma, Alabama, Jamie Lee Jackson was beaten by white mobs, then shot by an Alabama state trooper.

  • Oneal Moore killed by night riders

    Oneal Moore killed by night riders
    Oneal Moore was a black deputy who was murdered in a drive-by shooting on his way home from work by members of the Ku Klux Klan.

  • Willie Brewster killed by nightriders

    Willie Brewster killed by nightriders
    Willie Brewster was a black male who was gunned down by white nightriders in Anniston, Alabama.

  • Vernon Dahmer killed in Klan bombings

    Vernon Dahmer killed in Klan bombings
    Vernon Daher was a caucasian man who was a leader in the NAACP . He had received numerous death threats and one night the White Knights from the KKK attacked him while he was asleep and lit his house on fire. He was severely burned and later died.

  • Thurgood Marshall fierst black Supreme Court Justice

    Thurgood Marshall fierst black Supreme Court Justice
    1. He was the chief counsel member and director of it sLegal Defense and Educational Fund. 2.He was the first black person in a very powerful position that affected the whole country.

  • The Assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

    The Assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
    1. MLK Jr. was shot by a sniper while he was standing on his porch in the evening.
    2. Because he was such a prominent figure, and it marked the end of an era in American history.