Civil Rights Cultural Literacy

Unit Objective Learning and understanding the important figures, events, and cultural symbols of the era

Martin Luther King Jr. Leader of the non-violent Civil Rights Movement

Rosa Parks Sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott by refusing to give up her seat on the bus

Montgomery Bus Boycott First organized Civil Rights protest

Thurgood Marshall First African American appointed to the Supreme Court

Little Rock 9: Group of African American teenagers who tried to integrate Central High School

Lunch Counter Sit-Ins

16th Street Baptist Church Bombing

Medgar Evers Leader of the Mississippi branch of the NAACP who was assassinated in his own driveway

Bull Connor: Public Safety Commissioner who authorized the use of violence against non-violent protestors in Birmingham, Alabama

Birmingham Violence

Birmingham Violence Continued

March on Selma: To protest for more voting rights

Malcolm X A leader of the Nation of Islam who believed in some use of violence until later in life; Was assassinated by his own group

Black Power: Movement that advocated Black Pride and some use of violence