1. 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

2. 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”

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

5. Does History Really Repeat Itself?
The Wrong Place at the Wrong Time and of the Wrong Color!
Sound Familiar?

8. Emmett Till
Mississippi 1955

9. Birmingham Bombing September 15, 1963 September 15 1963
September 15, 1963

10. 1961 Freedom Riders

11. 1964 Mi ss
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12. May 19, February 21, 1965
Malcolm X

13. 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?

14. Watts Riot Los Angeles South Central 1965

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

18. Violence or
Non-Violence?