Civil Rights Movement

By carsonweiss42
  • Brown v Board of Education

    Brown v Board of Education

    1. Plessy v. Ferguson Supreme Court decision of 1896 2.The blacks weren't allowed to go to school 3.The result was a unanimous ruling
  • Rosa Parks Arrested

    Rosa Parks Arrested

    1. Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat in the back of the bus to a white person.
    2. She was forced off the bus by a officer.
  • Civil Rights Act of 1957

    Civil Rights Act of 1957

    1. President Eisenhower 2.This was a voting rights bill
  • Little Rock Arkansas

    Little Rock Arkansas

    1.9 black students were chased and beat by white people.
    2.They put in officers to guide the students and protect them from any harm.
  • Supreme Court Outlaws segregation in bus terminals

    Supreme Court Outlaws segregation in bus terminals

    1. Montgomery bus Boycott 2.2 black men sat behind the driver in the bus after segregation law was passed
  • Freedom Riders

    Freedom Riders

    1. A group of people who rode interstate buses to the south in 1961. 2.Congress of Racial equality 3.Both black and white
  • James Meredith enrolls at Ole Miss

    James Meredith enrolls at Ole Miss

    1. Chaos broke out at the campus 2.Kennedy administration order 31,000 troops to break up the mess and enforce order.
  • Paul Guihard Killed in Riot

    Paul Guihard Killed in Riot

    1. Oxford Mississippi 2.Paul Guihard a French Reporter Killed in a civil rights riot in Mississippi
  • Birmingham Police attack

    Birmingham Police attack

    1. Birmingham Alabama
    2. Police officers attack marching children with fire hoses and dogs
  • Medgar Evers Assassinated

    Medgar Evers Assassinated

    1. He tried to end segregation in Mississippi. 2.Shot to death by a white supremacist named Byron De La Beckwith
  • The March on Washinton

    The March on Washinton

    1. It was for jobs and freedom in the nations captial. 2.I Had A Dream
  • Freedom Summer

    Freedom Summer

    1. Missippi
    2. The 1964 Freedom Summer project was designed to draw the nation’s attention to the violent oppression experienced by Mississippi blacks
  • Civil Rights Act 1964

    Civil Rights Act 1964

    1. Lyndon B. Johnson
    2. Outlawed discrimination to other people based on skin color and much more
  • March to Selma

    March to Selma

    1. Marched for voting rights 2.A raid of white people 3.Voting rights for black people
  • Jonathan Daniels shot

    Jonathan Daniels shot

    1. Hayneville Alabama
    2. Jonathan Daniels was shot by a officer because he was a Civil Rights Activist
  • Thurgood Marshall first black supreme court justice

    Thurgood Marshall first black supreme court justice

    1.Chief Counsel for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).
    2.It wouldn't only have white people making the ruling in the supreme court
  • The Assassination of MLK

    The Assassination of MLK

    1. He was shot on his way to dinner in the jaw and through his spinal chord.
    2. He was the voice of all of America with his speeches