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Rosa Parks Refusing Seat On A Public Bus
Rosa refused to obey the bus driver to give up her seat just because she wasn't white.
She was arrested on December 1 in Montgomery
PAarks was known as "the First Lasy of Civil Rights and "The Mother of the Civil Rights Movement" -
Montgomery bus boycott
Rosa agreed to be the spark to inginte the Montgomery bus system strike.
Martin Luther King was called upon to lead the bus boycott
Campaign lasted from Dec 1,1955 - Dec 20, 1956 -
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Civil Rights
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Governer Farbus
Became the national symbol of racial segregation when he used Arkansas National Guardsmen to block the enrollment of nine black students -
Staned out against what he called “forced integration."
Governer Farbus of Arkansas brings the National Guard to prevent black students from going into a whire school. -
Woolworth's Lunch Counter
4 African-American college students sat at Woolsworth's Lunch Counter and ask for service but they were refuse.
When asked to leave, they remained in their seats. Their passive resistance and peaceful sit-down demand helped ignite a youth-led movement to challenge racial inequality throughout the South.
In Greensboro 100's of students,civil rights organizations, churches, and members of the community joined in a six-month-long protest. -
Malcom X Assassnation
In New York city Malcom was assassinated by rival black muslims while giving his organization of Afroamerican unity.
He was more for fighting back usinf all means rather than committed to methods of peace. -
Freedom Riders Bus Burned
Fighting racial segragation in the south, they were beaten and arrested.
attackers pelted the vehicle with rocks and bricks, slashed tires, smashed windows with pipes and axes and lobbed a firebomb through a broken window.
Freedom riders traveled throughout the South on regularly scheduled buses for seven months in 1961 to test a 1960 Supreme Court decision that declared segregated facilities for interstate passengers illegal. -
The Other American
influential book study of poverty in the United States.
argued that up to 25% of the nation was living in poverty.
original report on poverty in America that led President Kennedy to initiate the federal poverty program. -
MLK Arrested Birmingham Alabama
Demonstrators gathered peacefully, led by Dr. Martin Luther King.
Were attacked by police in Birmingham, AL for the crime of being black.
He took chance to encourage the curch to support his fight back. -
MLK Letter From Birmingham Jail
A court had ordered that King could not hold protests in Birmingham
Encourage the church to support his fight back.
A letter that says why he had broken the law -
March on Washington
200,000 Americans gathered in Washington, D.C., for a political rally known as the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.
It was organized by a number of civil rights and religious groups, the event was designed to shed light on the political and social challenges African Americans continued to face across the country.
The march became a key moment in the growing struggle for civil rights in the United States, leading to Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech, a spirited call -
I Have A Dream
Calling for an end to racism in the United States.
The speech determinethe moment of the American Civil Rights Movement.
A dream he had regarding to stop segrigation and hate for everyone to have equal rights. -
John F. Kennedy Assasination
American politician who served as the 35th President of the United States from January 1961-November 22,1963
Kennedy was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald, acting alone
Killed with a sniper at 12:30 pm in Dallas,TX -
Lyndon B, Johnson President
36th President of the United States from 1963-1969
Democrat from Texas
he completed Kennedy's term and was elected President in his own right in the 1964 election, -
24th Amendment
prohibits requiring a poll tax for voters in federal elections.
The right of citizens of the United States to vote in any primary or other election for President or Vice President, or Representative in Congress can not be denied by the United States or any state by reason of failure to pay any poll tax or other tax. -
civil right bill passed
outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.
It prevent discrimination in federally assisted programs to establish a commission on equal employment opportunity and for other purposes. -
voting rights act 1965
Act prohibits racial discrimination in voting.
the Act is considered to be the most effective piece of civil rights legislation ever enacted in the country.
JLB fought for and then signed the voting rights act in '65 -
Watts riots
In August of 1965 some youth were abused by some cops on their drive, this resulted in riots that for a week ran through Watts.
A Six days of racially violenced it resulted in 34deaths, 1,032 injuries, 3,438 arrests, and over $40 million in property damage.
It was the most severe riot in the city of Los Angeles. -
Martin Luther King Jr. Assassination
Stepped out his balcony door of his hotel in Memphis, Tennessee and James Earl Ray across the way took a shot to entered through King's cheeck.
he was rushed to hospital were he was pronounce dead at 7:05pm at age 39
He was prominent leader of the African-American civil rights movement and Nobel Peace Prize laureate who was known for his use of civil disobedience and non-violence. -
Desegregation Busing
transport students to schools in such a manner as to redress prior racial segregation of schools.
