Civil RIghts

By Terrellwarren

  • Brown v Board of Education

    Brown v Board of Education
    Acccording to the article, On May 17, 1954 the United States Supreme Court handed down its ruling in the case of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, declaring that “separate educational facilities are inherently unequal. The Brown v. Board decision helped break the back of state-sponsored segregation.

  • Brown v Board Of Education ( Decision)

    Brown v Board Of Education ( Decision)
    On May 17, 1954 the United States Supreme Court handed down its ruling in the landmark case of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas.Declaring that “separate educational facilities are inherently unequal,” the Brown v. Board decision helped break the back of state-sponsored segregation, and providedthe American civil rights movement. Bibliography:"Montgomery Bus Boycott." History.com. A&E Television Networks, n.d. Web. 17 Apr. 2015.

  • Goal of Boycott and Results

    Goal of Boycott and Results
    The purpose of the Montgomery bus boycott was to end racial segregation on the city bus system in a non-violent way, by creating economic hardship for the company. When African-Americans in the city of Montgomery, Alabama stopped riding the buses after Rosa Parks' arrest, ridership decreased by 80%. After that whole case, Africa Americans started using taxi's and that is where they got their transportation. The results!!!! African Americans were able to sit anywhere they wanted with no trouble!

  • Bus Boycott

    Bus Boycott
    "Montgomery Bus Boycott." History.com. A&E Television Networks, n.d. Web. 17 Apr. 2015."Montgomery Bus Boycott." History.com. A&E Television Networks, n.d. Web. 17 Apr. 2015.The Montgomery Bus Boycott was to protest segregated seating. It took place from December 5, 1955, to December 20, 1956, and is regarded as the first large-scale demonstration against segregation in the U.S. On December 1, 1955, four days before the boycott began, Rosa Parks refused to give her seat to a white man.The boycott of public buses by blacks in Montgomery began on the day of Parks’ court hearing and lasted 381 days.

  • Leaders Of SCLC

    "Southern Christian Leadership Conference." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, n.d. Web. 17 Apr. 2015.From its beginnings the SCLC was an urban organization. Its early success in attracting members is attributed by many people to King's abilities. Among other Georgians who were important in early SCLC efforts were King's wife, Coretta Scott King; Ralph Abernathy; Joseph Lowery; and Andrew Young.

  • Formation of SCLC

    Formation of SCLC
    "Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)." Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). N.p., n.d. Web. 17 Apr. 2015.The Southern Christian Leadership Conference, often referred to as the SCLC, was one of the most best participants in the civil rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s. The organization is still active on issues of social justice. Although it has been active in other southern states, this national organization has always been based in Atlanta, and Georgia has been the home of many of its founders and leaders.

  • Formation of SCLC (2)

    Formation of SCLC (2)
    "Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)." Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). N.p., n.d. Web. 17 Apr. 2015.
    Atlanta was naturally the focus of some of the earliest SCLC activity in Georgia. In many cases an action was started by another civil rights organization with King and other SCLC members joining in to help. At the request of Atlanta University and Morehouse College students, King joined a sit-in on October 19, 1960, at the Magnolia Tea Room in Rich's Department Store in downtown Atlanta. He and a number of others were arrested and jailed on a recently passed law against trespassing.

  • Leaders Of SNCC

    Leaders Of SNCC
    "Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, n.d. Web. 17 Apr. 2015.Charles F. McDew, J. Charles Jones, Julian Bond Diane Nash, James Lawson,John Lewis, Bernard Lafayette, James Bevel, and Marion Barry

  • SNCC

    SNCC
    "SNCC." History.com. A&E Television Networks, n.d. Web. 17 Apr. 2015."Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)." New Georgia Encyclopedia. N.p., n.d. Web. 17 Apr. 2015.
    The Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee formed to give younger blacks more of a voice in the civil rights movement. In the wake of the early sit-ins at lunch counters closed to blacks, North Carolina, Ella Baker, then director of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference helped set up the first meeting of what became SNCC. She was concerned that SCLC, led by the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., was out of touch with younger blacks who wanted the movement to make faster progress.

  • THE SNCC LUNCH ECOUNTER

    THE SNCC LUNCH ECOUNTER
    On February 1, 1960, a group of black college students from North Carolina A&T University refused to leave a Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina where they had been denied service. This sparked a wave of other sit-ins in college towns across the South. The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, or SNCCwas created on the campus of Shaw University in Raleigh two months later to coordinate these sit-ins, support their leaders, and publicize their activities.

  • Admission of Charlayne Hunter & Hamilton Holmes into the University of Georgia

    Admission of Charlayne Hunter & Hamilton Holmes into the University of Georgia
    Hamilton Holmes is best known for desegregating Georgia's universities. One of the first two African American students admitted to the University of Georgia (UGA) in Athens in 1961, Holmes was also the first black student admitted to the Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta two years later.

  • Admission of Charlayne Hunter & Hamilton Holmes into the University of Georgia

    Admission of Charlayne Hunter & Hamilton Holmes into the University of Georgia
    "Hamilton Holmes (1941-1995)." New Georgia Encyclopedia. N.p., n.d. Web. 17 Apr. 2015.Holmes's record and his sport accomplishments brought him to the attention of Jesse Hill. In the late 1950s Hill, a member of the education committee of the Atlanta branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), had begun recruiting promising black students to challenge segregation in Georgia's colleges.

  • Admission of Charlayne Hunter & Hamilton Holmes into the University of Georgia (NOW)

    Admission of Charlayne Hunter & Hamilton Holmes into the University of Georgia (NOW)
    <a href='"Hamilton Holmes (1941-1995)." New Georgia Encyclopedia. N.p., n.d. Web. 17 Apr. 2015.' >http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/hamilton-holmes-1941-1995</a>In 1985, in celebration of the school's bicentennial, UGA created the annual Holmes-Hunter Lecture. Hunter-Gault returned to campus to deliver the commencement address in 1988; she was the school's first black graduation speaker. In 1992 Hunter-Gault published a memoir of her childhood and her years at UGA, In My Place, and together with Holmes, established an academic scholarship for African American students.

  • Freedom Riders

    Freedom Riders
    <a href='"Freedom Rides." History.com. A&E Television Networks, n.d. Web. 17 Apr. 2015.' >http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/freedom-rides</a>A group of 13 African-American and white civil rights activists launched the Freedom Rides, a series of bus trips through the American South to protest segregation in interstate bus terminals. The Freedom Riders, who were recruited by the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), a U.S. civil rights group, departed from Washington, D.C. , and attempted to integrate facilities at bus terminals along the way into the Deep South.

  • Who Participated in Freedom Rides

    Who Participated in Freedom Rides
    <a href='"History, Travel, Arts, Science, People, Places | Smithsonian." History, Travel, Arts, Science, People, Places | Smithsonian. N.p., n.d. Web. 17 Apr. 2015. ' >http://www.smithsonianmag.com/ist/?next=/history/the-freedom-riders-then-and-now-45351758/</a>The Freedom Riders were inspired by the 1947 Journey of Reconciliation, led by civil rights activists Bayard Rustin and George Houser. Like the Freedom Rides of 1961, the Journey of Reconciliation was intended to test an earlier Supreme Court ruling that banned racial discrimination in interstate travel.

  • Freedom Riders (results)

    Freedom Riders (results)
    The group encountered tremendous violence from white protestors along the route, but also drew international attention to their cause. Over the next few months, several hundred Freedom Riders engaged in similar actions. In September 1961, the Interstate Commerce Commission issued regulations prohibiting segregation in bus and train stations nationwide. As a result, they got their freedom back.

  • Albany Movement

    Albany Movement
    The only person in the movement was MLK. JR and a few Activists! The Albany Movement was a desegregation league formed in Albany, Georgia, on November 17, 1961, by local activists, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.The Albany Movement began in fall 1961 and ended in summer 1962. It was the first movement in the modern civil rights era to have as its goal the desegregation of an entire community.

  • Albany Movement

    Albany Movement
    In the end King ran out of willing marchers before Pritchett ran out of jail space. Once again King got himself arrested, and once again he was let go. By early August it was clear that King had proved ineffective in bringing about change in Albany, but he had learned the important lessons that he and the SCLC would carry to Birmingham.

  • March on Washington - GOAL- nd -LEADERS-

    March on Washington - GOAL- nd -LEADERS-
    The "Big Six" organizers were James Farmer, Martin Luther King Jr, John Lewis, A. Philip Randolph, Roy Wilkins, and Whitney Young, Jr.
    The goal of the March on Washington was to show support for an end to segregation, the passage of civil rights legislation, government support for impoverished workers and a $2-an-hour minimum wage, according to the Federal Highway Administration

  • March on Washington ( OUTCOME)

    March on Washington ( OUTCOME)
    <a href='"March on Washington." History.com. A&E Television Networks, n.d. Web. 17 Apr. 2015.' >http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/march-on-washington</a>ALL RACES BECAME INTEGRATED!!

  • March on Washington

    March on Washington
    <a href='"March on Washington." History.com. A&E Television Networks, n.d. Web. 17 Apr. 2015.' >http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/march-on-washington</a>On August 28, 1963, more than 200,000 Americans gathered in Washington, D.C., for a political rally known as the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Organized by a number of civil rights and religious groups, the event was designed to shed light on the political and social challenges African Americans continued to face across the country. The march culminated in Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech, a spirited call for racial justice and equality.

  • Civil Rights Act Of 1964

    Civil Rights Act Of 1964
    <a href='"African-American Civil Rights Movement (1954–68)." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, n.d. Web. 17 Apr. 2015' >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African-American_Civil_Rights_Movement_(1954%E2%80%9368)</a>
    The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is considered one of the crowning legislative achievements of the civil rights movement.The civil rights act of 1964 so important since it clearly outlined the rights of the citizens.

  • Civil Rights Of 1964

    Civil Rights Of 1964
    Other trends have developed making civil rights equality even more robust. There is now growing equality in women's rights, disability rights, gay rights and immigrant rights across the country and the president was Lyndon B. Johnson and John F. Kenneddy

  • Assassination of MLK.Jr

    <a href='"Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. (4 April 1968)." Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. (4 April 1968). N.p., n.d. Web. 17 Apr. 2015. ' >http://mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu/index.php/encyclopedia/encyclopedia/enc_kings_assassination_4_april_1968/</a>King had arrived in Tennessee on Wednesday, 3 April to prepare for a march the following Monday on behalf of striking Memphis sanitation workers. As he prepared to leave the Lorraine Motel for a dinner at the home of Memphis minister Samuel ‘‘Billy’’ Kyles, King stepped out onto the balcony of room 306 to speak with Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) colleagues standing in the parking area below.

  • voting rights of 1965 -what changed-

    <a href='"Voting Rights Act." History.com. A&E Television Networks, n.d. Web. 17 Apr. 2015' >http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/voting-rights-act</a>Since its passage, the Voting Rights Act has been amended to include such features as the protection of voting rights for non-English speaking American citizens.

  • Voting Rights Of 1965

    <a href='"Johnson Signs Voting Rights Act." History.com. A&E Television Networks, n.d. Web. 17 Apr. 2015.' >http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/johnson-signs-voting-rights-act</a>The Voting Rights Act, signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson (1908-73) on August 6, 1965, aimed to overcome legal barriers at the state and local levels that prevented African Americans from exercising their right to vote under the 15th Amendment (1870) to the Constitution of the United States. The act significantly widened the franchise and is considered among the most far-reaching pieces of civil rights legislation in U.S. history.

  • MLK.JR ASSASSINATION

    <a href='"Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. (4 April 1968)." Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. (4 April 1968). N.p., n.d. Web. 17 Apr. 2015. ' >http://mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu/index.php/encyclopedia/encyclopedia/enc_kings_assassination_4_april_1968/</a>At 6:05 P.M. on Thursday, 4 April 1968, Martin Luther King was shot dead while standing on a balcony outside his second-floor room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. News of King’s assassination prompted major outbreaks of racial violence, resulting in more than 40 deaths nationwide and extensive property damage in over 100 American cities. James Earl Ray, a 40-year-old escaped fugitive, later confessed to the crime and was sentenced to a 99-year prison term.