Civil RIghts Movement

By Isabeltrevino

  • The Civil War Begins

    THE CIVIL WAT BEGINS. RACISM WAR STARTS.

  • The Murder of Emmit Till

    He get's kiddnapped and nurdered by 2 white men

  • Montgomery Bus Boycott

    Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery

  • Little Rock Nine

    9 african americans were given the opportunity to go to an all white school in Little Arkansas

  • Civil Rights Act of 1957

    President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed info loaw the Civil Rights Act of 1957. The acted marked the first occasion since Reconstruction that the frederl government undertook significant legislative action to protect civil rights. It's established the Civil Rights Division in the Justice Department.

  • Sit- Ins

    A wave of anti-segregation sit-ins across the South and opened a national awareness of the depth of segregation in the nation.

  • Freedom Rides

    On May 4, 1961, an interracial group of student activists under the auspices of the Congress of Racial Equality departed Washington D.C. by bus to test local compliance throughout the Deep South with two Supreme Court rulings banning segregated accommodations on interstate buses

  • James Meredith

    Meredith was on of the pioneers of the Civil rights movement. In 1962 he beccame the first black student to successfully enroll as a african american student in the University of Mississippi.

  • Birmingham, Alabama

    When MLK got arrested.

  • Match on Washington

    Was one of the largest political rallies for human rights in United States history and demanded civil and economic rights for African Americans

  • Allabny & Birningham

    Use of young people.

  • NAACP

    The NAACP stands for National Association for the Advancment of Colored People. It interracial American organization created to work for the aboliton of segregation and discrimination in housing, education, employment, voting , and transportation: to oppose racism; and to ensure african americans their constitutional rights

  • Freedom Summer

    During the summer of 1964, hundreds of Northern college students traveled to Mississippi to help register black voters and encourage participation in the Civil Rights movement.

  • Martin Luther King Assasination

    On April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated by a sniper's bullet while standing on the second-floor balcony of his room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee.