Civil Rights Movement Nick Summers

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  • Brown vrs board of education

    Brown vrs board of education

    1. Plessy v. Ferguson Supreme Court 2.the little girl was denied to preschool 3.it was overturned from the plessy vrs fergeson
  • Rosa parks arrested for refusing to give up her bus seat

    Rosa parks arrested for refusing to give up her bus seat

    1.rosa parks refused to to give up her seat and was pulled of the bus and arrested.
    2.she was arrested and started the buss boycott
  • Civil Rights act of 1957

    Civil Rights act of 1957

    1.dwight eisenhower
    2.everyone could vote equally without segregation or race
  • Temple bombing

    Temple bombing

    1.dynamite exploded in a entrance way at the Hebrew Benevolent Congregation, Atlanta's oldest and most prominent synagogue, more commonly known as "the Temple."
  • sit ins

    sit ins

    1.people protested by not leaving and they would not cause violence
    2. Greensboro NC Four students from North Carolina A&T sit down at a "whites-only" Woolworth's lunch counter and ask to be served.
  • Attack of the freedom riders

    Attack of the freedom riders

    1.freedom riders rode on busses once they were allowed to and ignored the rioters and people against them doing it.
    2.core
    3.freedom riders were also whites
  • james meredith enrolls at ole miss

    james meredith enrolls at ole miss

    1.the governor of mississippi stood in his path from entering the enrollment offices .
    2. john f kennedy sent in troops from the national guard to protect meredith.
  • medgar evers assassinated

    medgar evers assassinated

    1.a civil rights activist who organized voter registration efforts
    2. he was shot in the back walking up to his house
  • The march on washington

    The march on washington

    1.for jobs and freedom
    2.i have a dream speech
  • john f kennedy assassantion

    john f kennedy assassantion

    1. john f Kennedy got shot in the head
    2. dallas texas
  • civil rights act of 1964

    civil rights act of 1964

    1. president lyndon johnson 2.to end segragation in poublic places
  • Malcom X

    Malcom X

    1.was an African american leader in the nation of Islam
    2.was assassinated at the Audubon ballroom in Manhattan
  • march on selma

    march on selma

    1.the right to vote
    2.getting beaten and sprayed with fire houses
    3lyndon called for a federal legislation of voting .
  • events at little rock arkansas

    events at little rock arkansas

    1.nine african american students were admitted into central high school which caused riots and the government had to get police and soldiers and escort the students into the building.
    2.army pushed everybody aside and guided the students into the building
  • Thurgood marshall first black supreme couart justice

    Thurgood marshall first black supreme couart justice

    1.he was a civil rights advocate
    2.it ws the first african american supreme justice
  • The assassination o dr martin luther king

    The assassination o dr martin luther king

    1.hw was shot at th lorayann hotell
    2.he was beloved by the nation
  • fair housing act

    fair housing act

    1.the fair housing act was that said you would have to rent or sell to anyone and not to discriminate certain races;
    2.on April 11 Lyndon Johnson signed the civil rights act of 1968