Civil Rights Movement

  • Murder of Medgar Evers

    Murder of Medgar Evers

    He was an African American civil rights activist
  • Integration of Little Rock Central High School

    Integration of Little Rock Central High School

    It was the first time someone black went to a white school
  • brown vs board of education

    brown vs board of education

    It was a court case trying to create separate public schools
  • Murder of Emmett Till

    Murder of Emmett Till

    He was walking to his relatives house, and flirted with a white cashier. He was kidnapped and murdered two days later.
  • Montgomery bus boycott

    Montgomery bus boycott

    People refused to ride the bus because of what happened to Rosa Parks
  • Integration of Montgomery, AL busses

    Integration of Montgomery, AL busses

    African Americans boycotted the buses until they stopped making them sit in the back
  • Lunch counter sit-ins

    Lunch counter sit-ins

    It was a series of nonviolent protests in Greensboro
  • Freedom riders

    Freedom riders

    They were a civil rights activist group who rode interstate buses into the segregated south
  • Letter from a Birmingham jail

    Letter from a Birmingham jail

    It was Martin Luther King Jr. writing letters in prison
  • Bombing of 16th St. Baptist Chruch

    Bombing of 16th St. Baptist Chruch

    The bombing was an act of white supremacist
  • 24th Amendment

    24th Amendment

    Prohibiting any poll taxing
  • Murder of civil rights workers

    Murder of civil rights workers

    James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner were all murdered in Philadelphia, Miss.
  • Civil Rights Act of 1964

    Civil Rights Act of 1964

    It ended unequal application of voter registration
  • Murder in Jimmie Lee Jackson

    Murder in Jimmie Lee Jackson

    He was killed during a peaceful protest
  • Voting Rights Act of 1965

    Voting Rights Act of 1965

    The president aimed to make legal barriers so that African Americans could not vote
  • Bloody Sunday

    Bloody Sunday

    British soldiers shot 26 unarmed citizens during a protest against interment