1. The American Civil Rights Movement

2. I Have a Dream Speech Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

3. Martin Luther King Jr. Baptist Minister Civil Rights Leader
Non-violent protest
“I have a dream” speech
Led March on Washington
March on Washington-held in 1963 to show support for the Civil Rights Bill in Congress, Martin Luther King Jr. gave his famous “I have a dream” speech. 250,000 people attended the rally.

4. Rosa Parks Born in 1913 Refused to give up her bus seat.
Her arrest led to the Montgomery
bus boycott.
Montgomery bus boycott-In 1955, after Rosa Pars was arrested, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. led a boycott of city busses. After 11 months the Supreme Court ruled that segregation of public transportation was illegal.

5. Malcolm X Urged African Americans to identify with Africa.
Also urged people to work with world organizations

6. James Meredith
Spurred a riot at University of Mississippi by simply enrolling in school.

7. Thurgood Marshall American civil rights lawyer
First Black Justice of the Supreme Court
Served as an advocate of minorities and the poor

8. Earl Warren United States jurist
Served as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
Overturned Plessy v. Ferguson thus outlawing
de jure segregation.
Brown v. Board of Education-court found that segregation was a violation of the Equal Protection clause, “separate but equal” has no place .
Plessy v. Ferguson-supreme court ruled that segregating public places facilities were legal as long as the facilities were equal.
de jure segregation-segregation that is imposed by law.

9. Lyndon B. Johnson Signed Civil Rights Act of 1964 into law.
Signed Voting Rights Act of 1965 into law.
Formed Kerner Commission
Signed the 24th amendment into law.
Civil Rights Act of 1964-made racial, religious and sex discrimination by employers illegal and gave the government the power to enforce all laws governing civil rights.
Voting Rights Act of 1965-invalidated the use of any test or device to deny the vote to registered voters.
Kerner Commission-created to investigate the causes of the 1967 race riots.
24th amendment-outlawed taxing voters, as an effort to remove barriers to black voters

10. Black Panthers Founded and led by Bobby Seale and Huey Newton
Militant revolutionaries for Black Power.

11. Civil Rights Organizations
NAACP-National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
SNCC-Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee
CORE-founded by James Leonard Farmer in 1942 to work for racial equality.
SCLC-Southern Christian Leadership Conference
SNCC-college kids participating in civil rights protests, such as sit-ins.
SCLC-churches linked together to inform blacks about changes in the Civil Rights Movement.

12. Civil Rights Protests
Freedom Summer-In 1964, when blacks and whites together challenged segregation and a led a massive drive to register blacks to vote.

13. Civil Rights Protests
Sit-in-nonviolent protests in which a person sits and refuses to leave.
Boycott-a group’s refusal to have commercial dealings with some organization in protest against its policies.

14. Civil Rights Protests
Selma March-three marches in 1965 that marked the political and emotional peak of the American Civil Rights movement.

15. Civil Rights Protests
Freedom Rides-a series of political protests against segregation by blacks and whites who rode buses together through the south in

16. References
Library of Congress. www,loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials
Museum of Tolerance.
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