Civil Rights Movement

By EmmaW906

  • Jim Crow laws

    Separate but equal

  • NAACP

    National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

  • James L. Farmer, Jr

    He co-founded the Committee of Racial Equality-CORE.

  • CORE

    CORE means Congress of Racial Equality

  • Brown vs. the Board of Topeka Kansas

    The Supreme Court ruled that "separate but equal" was unconstitutional.

  • The freedom riders

    The freedom riders were called The riders because they stood up for whats right they made a change!

  • Montgomery Bus Boycott

    It started with Rosa Parks not giving up her seat on a bus

  • SCLC

    Southern Christian Leadership Conference

  • Little Rock Nine

    The Little Rock Nine is nine kids trying to get into a wight school.

  • March on Woshington

    for Jobs and Freedom.

  • Martin Luther King .JR

    Martin helped to organize the 1963 March on Washington, were he delivered his famous "I Have A Dream" speech.

  • Voting Rights Act

    It gave people voting rights.

  • Civil Rights Act

    defines housing discrimination.