1. Civil Rights Movement 1950s and 1960s Primarily looking at Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X

2. Plessy v Ferguson 1896==Allowed separate but equal=made it Constitutional This was really not the case, it was separate but not equal Applied to restaurants, businesses, schools, etc.

3. First steps to integration President Truman desegregated the army after WWII All people, regardless of color, served together in the military

4. Martin Luther King Jr.

5. Brown Vs. Board of Education Father of 8 year old Linda Brown charged the board of education of Topeka, Kansas, with violating Linda’s rights by denying her admission to an all-white elementary school 4 blocks from her house. Forced to go to an all black elementary school 21 blocks away

6. Reaction to the Brown Decision Crisis in Little Rock=Arkansas governor ordered the National Guard to turn away the “little rock nine” 1957 President Eisenhower had to order thousands of paratroopers to Little Rock to enforce the courts!

7. Civil Rights movement

8. Rosa Parks

9. Montgomery Bus Boycotts 1955 Rosa Parks was arrested NAACP suggested a bus boycott of Montgomery Alabama Led by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Eventually the Supreme Court outlawed the segregation

10. Marching for Freedom

11. Freedom Rider bus firebombed

12. SNCC and Freedom Riders Student Nonviolent Coordination Committee  College students willing to make a stand for civil rights/faced many risks (being kicked out of college, jail) Freedom Riders  wanted to provoke a violent reaction to convince Kennedy to enforce the law that banned segregation on buses

13. Sit-Ins

14. Civil Rights Movements

15. I have a Dream http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/ mlkihaveadream.htmhttp://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/ mlkihaveadream.htm

16. Civil Rights Act of 1964 Signed by LBJ which prohibited discrimination because of race, religion, national origin, parks, washrooms restaurants, theaters, and other public accommodations

17. Voting Rights Act of 1965 Banned literacy tests…African American voters in the South Tripled Why is this so important?

18. Malcolm X

19. Malcolm X Black Muslim (converted while in prison) Preached that whites were the cause of the black condition and blacks should separate from white society Advocated armed self-defense

20. Malcolm X

21. Assassinated After a trip to Mecca, He broke with the Black Muslims (believed we should integrate and use voting techniques not bullets) His former group killed him

22. Malcolm X

23. Martin Luther King Jr. Objected to the Black Power movement He was killed by James Earl Ray when he went to Memphis to support the city’s striking garbage workers The worst urban riots in US history occured after this…over 100 cities

24. MLK assassinated