Civil Rights Movement Assignment

By nala22

  • Brown vs. Board Education

    Brown vs. Board Education
    1) A landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional.
    2) Oliveer Brown and his daughter Linda
    3) Made all people of all races go to the same school
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    Civil Rights Movement Timeline

  • Rosa Parks' Arrest/Montgomery Bus Boycott

    Rosa Parks' Arrest/Montgomery Bus Boycott
    1. Rosa Parks sat down in her section the bus driver asked her to move, she wouldn't so she was arrested. African-Americans refused to ride the bus system.
    2. Rosa Parks and all African-Americans
    3. It gave African-Americans the right to ride where ever they wanted on the bus'. Also, it helped lead to desgregation.

  • Little Rock 9

    Little Rock 9
    1. The Little Rock Nine were a group of nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957.
    2. 9 African-Americans and the gov. of Arkansas
    3. It is important because the gov. of Arkansas refused to let them into a high school for the "protection of other students."

  • Greensboro Sit-Ins

    Greensboro Sit-Ins
    1. A series of non-violent protests in Greensboro, North Carolina
    2. Four young black men who staged the first sit-in in Greensboro–Ezell Blair Jr., David Richmond, Franklin McCain and Joseph McNeil. All went to the neaby college
    3. It lead to a department store chain removing their racial discrimination

  • Freedom Rides

    Freedom Rides
    1. A group of 13 African-American and white civil rights activists launched the Freedom Rides, a series of bus trips through the American South to protest segregation in interstate bus terminals.
    2. 7 blacks and 6 whites
    3. Got rid of the segregation on buses and trains

  • March On Washington D.C./"I have a Dream Speech"

    March On Washington D.C./"I have a Dream Speech"
    1. A lot of African-Americans marched to Washington D.C. and stood there and watche as Martin Luther King Jr. gave his I Have A Dream Speech
    2. Martin Luther King Jr. and a lot of African-Americans
    3. It helped people find there voice and stand up for themselves

  • Civil Rights Act of 1964

    Civil Rights Act of 1964
    1. A landmark piece of civil rights legislation in the United States that outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.
    2. John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson
    3. It ended segregation in public places and banned employment discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin, and is considered one of the crowning legislative achievements of the civil rights movement.

  • Voting Rights Act of 1965

    Voting Rights Act of 1965
    1. It aimed to overcome legal barriers at the sate and local levels that prevented African-Americans from excerising their right to vote under the 15th amendment
    2. President Lyndon Johnson
    3. It gave African-Americans the right to vote freely