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Civil Rights Adam Szerlag

By aszerlag13

  • Brown vs. Board of Education

    Brown vs. Board of Education
    1. Plessy vs. Ferguson 2.Linda Brown was denied admission to her neighborhood because she was black.
    2. They said segregation of public was unconstitutional and violated the equal protection clause of the fourteenth amendment.

  • Emmit Till

    Emmit Till
    1. Money Mississippi
    2. Black teenager Emmit Till was brutally murdered by two white men for talking to a white women.

  • Rosa Parks arrested for refusing to give up her bus seat

    Rosa Parks arrested for refusing to give up her bus seat
    1.Rosa Parks was sitting at the front of the bus when a white man told her to get up. When she refused to move she got arrested.
    2. The African Americans boycotted the bus system, and protested across the nation.

  • The Bus Boycott

    The Bus Boycott
    1. Montgomery Alabama
    2. The blacks boycotted against bus segregation by refusing to ride public transport buses.

  • Civil Rights Act of 1957

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

  • Events at Little Rock, Arkansas

    Events at Little Rock, Arkansas
    1. Nine Black teenagers tried to enter Central High School but were denied access by the National Guard and an angry white mob.
    2. President Eisenhower later sent in one thousand troops from the 101st Airborne Division.

  • Attack of the Freedom Riders

    Attack of the Freedom Riders
    1.Traveled into the south on buses to draw attention to the segregatd bus system.
    2.CORE
    3. Whites also joined the freedom riders.

  • James Meredith enrolls at Ole Miss

    James Meredith enrolls at Ole Miss
    1. Ross Barnett denied him access.
    2. JFK dispatched 500 federal marshals to escort Meredith into the campus.

  • French Reporter Killed in Ole Miss Riot

    French Reporter Killed in Ole Miss Riot
    1. Oxford, Mississippi
    2. During the Riot at Ole Miss regarding James Meredith attending the university. An innocent reporter (Paul Guihard) was shot and killed while reporting at the scene.

  • Medgar Evers Assassinated

    Medgar Evers Assassinated
    1. Medgar Evers was a African American Civil Rights activists.
    2. In his driveway outside his house Medgar was shot in the back by White supremacist Byron Beckwith.

  • The March on Washington

    The March on Washington
    1. To build more public support for Civil Rights Movement.
    2. Doctor Martin Luther King JR. "I have a dream."

  • Civil Rights Act of 1964

    Civil Rights Act of 1964
    1. House of Representatives
    2. It banned segregation in most public places.

  • Civil Rights Workers abducted and killed by Klansmen

    Civil Rights Workers abducted and killed by Klansmen
    1. Philadelphia, Mississippi
    2. 3 Civil rights workers were abducted and killer by the KKK Klansmen on July 2, 1964

  • March to Selma

    March to Selma
    1. African American voting rights.
    2. The people participating in the march were faced by angry white mobs that beat them and whipped them.
    3. Overall the march to Selma did gain attention to black voting rights.

  • Congress Passes Voting Act of 1965

    Congress Passes Voting Act of 1965
    1. Washington D.C 2.Congress passed the voting act of 1965 allowing all U.S citizens to be able to participate in public elections.

  • Thurgood Marshall first black supreme court justice

    Thurgood Marshall first black supreme court justice
    1. He was originally a lawyer.
    2. Because he was the first african american in history to hold a seat on the supreme court.

  • Assassination of Martin Luther King

    Assassination of Martin Luther King
    1. Dr. Martin Luther King was staying at a Lorraine motel when, while standing at his balcony was struck by a bullet in the chest fired by James Ray.
    2. Because he was the leader of the Civil Rights movement for African Americans.