Civil Rights Protest

  • Brown VS Board of Education

    Brown VS Board of Education
    It was a Supreme Court case to end Segregation
    • 9-0 decision - or unanimous , for equal
      896 protection under the 14M Amendment
    • Aflerthe decision videnceand riots broke out, with somes schools closing.
  • TILL

    TILL
    14 old boy from Chicago, visiting Family in Mississippi.
    • Accused of Whistling at a white woman.
    • Roy Bryart and Jhu Milan Kidnap, bert, Shot, Killed
    • Pleand then three Emmats body in the river
    -Mamie till Emmets mother had an open casket funeral. -Spark to start the final Rights movement
  • Rosa Parks - bus boycott -nonvident. protest

    Rosa Parks - bus boycott -nonvident. protest
    Dec 1, 1955 - Rosa Parks refused to move seats and she was arrested. Dec 5, 1955 - Bus Boycott begins and as 381 days Martinkuther king emerges as the leader of thebus burcot starge see denchstration -nonvident in the US. very successtal because 75% ofallridorsarebhack. Boycott - withdraw from commercal or socid relations - punishment/protest
  • Southern Christian leadership Conference ( SCLC)

    Southern Christian leadership Conference ( SCLC)
    Mean goal is- nonvident
    • Started after the bus boycott to organize protest,
    • Martin Lesterking was extended President.
    • Organized protest around the south to coordinate events such Greensboro sit ins, March on Washington and Selma.
    • After Max's assassmation it desired
  • Little Rick Nine/Arkansa

    Little Rick Nine/Arkansa
    • 9 students were vetted to undergo this test.
    • Airborne lol escorted Students to class. Following year all. Public Schools closed (As)
    Ang 29, 1959 - Schods reopened: (Vetted - interviewed counseled trained.
    - Careful and critical examination of someone)
  • Greensboro, North Carolina

    Greensboro, North Carolina
    4 college students sat at dawn at a Lunch counter at Woolworths to be served. They were refused Service. Continued to
    "Sit in and others joined,
    The protest spread to other towns and forced change.
  • Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and Freedom Summer

    Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and Freedom Summer
    Youth group of students remained fiercely independent of MLK and SCLC, generating their own projects and strategies. The two organizations worked side by side throughout the early years of the civil rights movement. This group was the second half of the Freedom riders and were a part of the March to Selma.
  • Freedom Riders

    Freedom Riders
    2 week bus trip to the deep South, to deliberately vidate Jim Crawlaus. It was Organized lay CORE. The buses were burned and riders beaten by the KiKK Nov I961,White and colored signs are removed from bus stations, train stations and lunch counters.
  • March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom

    March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom
    was to advocate for the civil and economic rights of African Americans. 250,000 people were in attendance at the Lincoln Memorial. WaK was the last to speak, and gave his "I have a dream speech? 70%-80% of Marchers were black.
    It helped to pass the Gil Rights Act of 19164.
  • Civil Rights Act of 1964

    Civil Rights  Act of 1964
    Forbids employers and labor unions to discrimina against any person on grounds of race, coler, religen, sex, physical disability or age in job related matters
    - Prohibits discrimination against race, clo, religion, natana orgin, sex, or physical disability. Can Not be refused service
  • March on Selma/Bloody Sunday

    March on Selma/Bloody Sunday
    C00 students March from Selma to Mortgomery, Alabama to get ther get to vote. They walked Similes and were stopped at the bridge Seen On national television. LB Jardent Lapassage of 195 voting rights law and March took place
    25.000 Marchers inducing MILK.
  • Voting Rights Act of 1965

    Voting Rights Act of 1965
    One of the most comprehensive pieces of legislation in USHistory. Blacks were registering to vote and being elected to public office. The Voting Rights Act of 1965, signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson.
  • Voting Rights Act of 1965

    Voting Rights Act of 1965
    One of the most comprehensive pieces of legislation in USHistory. Blacks were registering to vote and being elected to public office. The Voting Rights Act of 1965, signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson.