Rosa Parks 1955 refuses to move to the back of the bus Civil Rights 1950s and 1960s Rosa Parks 1955 refuses to move to the back of the bus

Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka Decision came in 1954 Mandated the desegregation of schools in the South Breaks up the “separate but equal” Plessy vs. Ferguson decision of 1896 where the U.S. Government reinforced segregation Just desegregated schools, however opened the doors for more desegregation legislation Schools had to desegregate in “all deliberate speed”

Integration of Central High School Little Rock Nine Integration of Central High School Little Rock, Arkansas 1957

Does History Really Repeat Itself? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDWNB01xGj4 The Wrong Place at the Wrong Time and of the Wrong Color! Sound Familiar? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SW1ZDIXiuS4

Emmett Till Mississippi 1955

Birmingham Bombing September 15, 1963 September 15 1963 http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/birmingham-church-bombing/videos September 15, 1963

1961 Freedom Riders

1964 Mi ss iss ipp i

May 19, 1925 - February 21, 1965 Malcolm X

A Dream Deferred by Langston Hughes What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore-- And then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over-- like a syrupy sweet? Maybe it just sags like a heavy load. Or does it explode?

Watts Riot Los Angeles South Central 1965 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=my3doRW-HWA

Martin Luther King Jr. January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968

Violence or Non-Violence?