1. Sit-ins Sit-in demon- strators, such as these at a Jackson,
Mississippi lunch
counter in 1963,
faced intimidation
and humiliation
from white
segregationists.

2. Freedom Rides Bus rides through the south in the early 1960’s to
challenge segregation,
particularly in inter-
state transportation.
Often these civil rights
activists were met
with violence.

3. Integrating Ole Miss Riots broke out on the campus of the
University of Miss-
issippi when James
Meredith won a
federal court case
allowing him
to enroll in the all-
white university.

4. March on Washington
On August 28, 1963, 250,000 people- including about 75,000
whites- converged on the nation’s capital to support President Kennedy’s anti-
segregation bill.
Equal access to public accommodations (school desegregation)
I have a dream

5. Freedom Summer A 1964 project to register African-American
voters in Mississippi.
For some, the job
proved deadly. Three
civil rights workers
were murdered by
Klansmen and local
police in Neshoba
County, Mississippi.

6. Selma March In 1965, SCLC organized a march from Selma, AL.,
to Montgomery, AL.,
to support voting
rights.
TV captured the mayhem, 100’s pour into Selma.
That summer,
Congress finally
passed President
Johnson’s Voting
Rights Act of 1965.