1. Kennedy’s Assassination The March on Washington; The full and untold story behind it all

2. 1960 Greensboro, North Carolina Four black students from N.C Agricultural and Technical College began a sit-in at a segregated lunch counter, Woolworth’s. They stayed seated even though they were refused service. This triggered many nonviolent events. Six months later, the original protesters were served at the lunch counter. This was also effective in integrating other locations in the South. 1961 During the spring & summer, CORE and SNCC sponsored a program to test out the new laws. Many students, black and white, volunteered to start taking bus trips through the south. Several groups of “Freedom Riders” were attacked by angry mobs along the way

3. The idea for a march on Washington started back in 1941. Philip Randolph, one of the key players in the march, threatened to march forcing a bill to be signed. The president at the time signed the order banning discrimination in the armed forces before the marchers came. The ‘march’ succeeded without a full protest. The march that was to come nearly twenty years later was more than a protest but a revolution.

4. On the day of the march, people from all over came to Washington in many different ways to participate. Nearly 300,000 people of black and white descent were present to hear the infamous “I Have a Dream” speech by Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and see Mahalia Jackson be the first African American singer to perform on the steps of the Lincoln Monument. Even with Mahalia’s beautiful singing, women didn’t work and support at the fore- front of the march. Powerful female speakers weren’t chosen to perform as key note speakers for the march’s program. This was to be a “man’s battle”.

5. The march was extremely successful in many ways. A civil rights was passed and a sense of black nationalism was felt by many African Americans. In the later years, the Nation of Islam was formed with Malcolm X as the head leader and the Black Panther party was formed.

6. ( not in the order they’re standing in) A. Philip Randolph Whitney Young Roy Wilkins James Farmer John Lewis Martin Luther King Jr.

7. Main organizations that were in the fore-front of the Civil Rights movement giving support were: 1. National Urban League 2. Congress of Racial Equality 3. Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee – SNCC 4. Southern Christian Leadership Conference - SCLC