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Rosa Parks
Rosa park was a woman who sat in front of a bus where the white people sit. She was told o move to the back of the bus and give up her seat, but she didnt and she stood up for her rights of segregation. People call her the "first lady of civil rights", or "the mother of the civil rights movement". -
Malcolm X
He was a Black Muslim preacher, He was a civil rights figher. He spread Islam in the Black culture, and he gave courage to the African Ameicans to stand up for themselves. He also wanted Black Supremacy in the United States, instead of whites ruling over him. -
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Medgar Evers
He was a civil rights activist trying to remove the segrecation in the university of mississippi. He worked with the NAACP to try and stop segregation. He submited a application for the university of mississippi, to try and prove that they would decline it because he was black. His applicaion was denyed in 1954. -
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Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr. was a major contributor during the civil rights movement. He won the nobel peace prize at the age of 35 and started peaceful protest. He also delivered the "I Have A Dream Speech", and also was involved in Civil Disobedience. -
Brown vs. Board of Education
The Supreme Court ruled that seperating people in schools due to race was not constitutonal. And it was a signal that segregation was coming to a end. -
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Montgomery Bus Boycott
It was a protest because Rosa Parks sat at the front of a bus on the "white section". People boycotted because she was not allowed to sit there accoring to them. But she ws allowed to under the constitution -
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Freedom Summer
Large group of white college students from the North go down to Mississippi to register blacks to vote. They started to break the literacy tests and poll taxes. They wanted to help blacks start voting again and get involved in politics again. -
3 Civil Rights Workers Murdered Phiiladelphia, Mississippi
James Chany, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner were all murdered by the KKK on June 21, 1964. They went to Philadelphia, Mississippi to investigate a bombing and were arrested on accounts of traffic violations. They were released from jail and they were killed by the KKK hours later. Chaney was killed from a savage beating the other two got shot in the chest. They were found in prepared graves by the KKK. -
Voter Registration in the South
Blacks have not been able to vote in america until 1965. Congress passed a voting rights act in 1965 and this gained the backs in america the right to vote. This is the year that the jim crow laws are no longer in effect. -
Million Man March
This took place in Washington D.C, in the National Mall. Organized by Louis Farrakhan who wanted, "a million sober, disciplined, committed, dedicated, inspired Black men to meet in Washington on a day of atonement."
