Jim Crow Laws

1947 Truman Desegregates Military

Dixiecrats & Strom Thurmond

Brown V Board of Ed. Thurgood Marshall 1954

Dec 1, 1955 Rosa Parks

Montgomery Bus Boycott

Martin Luther King Jr.

Southern Christian Leadership Conference SCLC

Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

Sit Ins

Little Rock Nine September 1957

Never let them see you cry.

Freedom Rides 1961

George Wallace

Birmingham

Bull Conner

James Meredith

“I Have A Dream” Aug. 28, 1963

Civil Rights Act 1964 Outlawed discrimination in employment Equal access to public accommodations and schools Created the Equal Opportunity Commission

Selma March 1965

Voting Rights Act 1965 Outlawed literacy tests Authorized the attorney general to send federal examiners to help with registrations Coincided with 24 th amendment that prohibited poll taxes

Malcolm X "The day that the black man takes an uncompromising step and realizes that he's within his rights, when his own freedom is being jeopardized, to use any means necessary to bring about his freedom or put a halt to that injustice, I don't think he'll be by himself." -- Malcolm X (Speech, 1964

Stokely Carmichael

Black Panthers Original six Black Panthers (November, 1966) Top left to right: Elbert "Big Man" Howard; Huey P. Newton (Defense Minister), Sherman Forte, Bobby Seale (Chairman). Bottom: Reggie Forte and Little Bobby Hutton (Treasurer

Watts Riot August 1965

April 4, 1968

Chicano Movement

AIM

Alcatraz Wounded Knee