Civil Rights Movement Matthew Trisch

By MatthewTrisch
  • Brown V. Board of Education

    Brown V. Board of Education

    1. Plessy V. Ferguson
    2. African American kids being segregated in schools 3.Segregation in public schools was unconstitutional
  • Rosa Parks Arrested

    Rosa Parks Arrested

    1. Rosa Parks was riding the bus in the middle and denied a white man from taking her seat.
    2. She was taken off the bus and arrested
  • Civil Rights Act of 1957

    Civil Rights Act of 1957

    1. President Eisenhower
    2. That everybody had the right to vote
  • Little Rock Arkansas Events

    Little Rock Arkansas Events

    1. African American students tried entering a white school, and were met with mobs and violence.
    2. The government sent in National Guards
  • Attack of the Freedom Riders

    Attack of the Freedom Riders

    1. They would ride segregated interstate buses into southern states
    2. Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
    3. No
  • James Meredith enrolls at Ole Miss

    James Meredith enrolls at Ole Miss

    1. He was accepted
    2. They sent in troops to control the students
  • Medgar Evers Assassainated

    Medgar Evers Assassainated

    1. A civil rights activist who fought for voting rights and to overturn segregation at the University of Mississippi
    2. While walking up to his house he was shot in the back in front of his kids
  • The March on Washington

    The March on Washington

    1. To gain civil and economic rights
    2. Martin Luther King Jr's "I Have A Dream"
  • Civil Rights Act of 1964

    Civil Rights Act of 1964

    1. Lyndon B. Johnson
    2. Outlawed discrimination against race, color, religion, sex or nationality.
  • March to Selma

    March to Selma

    1. For voting rights
    2. Police officers on the bridge looking to stop and beat them
    3. Led President Johnson to address the voting problems
  • Thurgood Marshall Supreme Court Justice

    Thurgood Marshall Supreme Court Justice

    1. He was the founder and executive director of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund.
    2. Because a black man was in a very high, honorable position, and black people could now get fair trials.
  • Assassination of MLK Jr.

    Assassination of MLK Jr.

    1. King was standing on the balcony of a motel room in Tennessee, when he was shpt in the face by James Earl Ray.
    2. Because he was such a large symbol of peace and equal rights, that seeing him being shot for who he wa, came across as very shocking.