Seeds of the Sixties- Part II 1950s Youth Culture The Condition of Blacks in the 1950s Brown v. The Board of Education-1954 Emmett Till Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott The Origins of the Civil Rights Movement
Elvis Presley
The Jim Crow South
Jim Crow
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka Ka. NAACP sued School Board due to unequal educational facilities
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka Ka. NAACP sued School Board due to unequal educational facilities Warren Court ruled that in the field of education, separate facilities were inherently unequal, and unconstitutional!
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka Ka. NAACP sued School Board due to unequal educational facilities Warren Court ruled that in the field of education, separate facilities were inherently unequal, and unconstitutional! Overturned Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Emmett Till- 1955
Rosa Parks- Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955)
Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.
King’s Civil Rights Philosophy
Non-violent civil disobedience
King’s Civil Rights Philosophy Non-violent civil disobedience Based in Southern Black churches
King’s Civil Rights Philosophy Non-violent civil disobedience Based in Southern Black churches Based on the teachings of:
King’s Civil Rights Philosophy Non-violent civil disobedience Based in Southern Black churches Based on the teachings of: Jesus Christ Mohandas Gandhi Henry David Thoreau