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THE Civil RIghts Movement
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Brown v Board of Education
WWW.history.comThis event which is commonly known as the "Brown Case", was about a seven year old girl named,Linda Brown (a Black student), who was denied the enrollment to enter a white school in Topeka, Kansas. In response, the NAACP helped her father sue the Topeka Board of Education. In the end, the "Brown Case" resulted in the Supreme Court passing a law stating that segregation of public schools was unconstitutional. This led to the Sibley Commission closine all the schools in Georgia rather than integ -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
SourceThe Montgomery Bus Boycott was caused by a dispute when Rosa parks refused to give up her seat on the bus, to a White citizen. This led to the minority community's dicontinuation of attending and relying on public bus transportation. The purpose of this was to succeedingly abolish racial discrimination on Montgomery's public buses. This involded the participation of Martin Luther King, Jr., Rosa Parks, and many other members of the NAACP. To sum it all up, the whole boycott worked by having "Com -
Formation of the SCLC
SourcesThe SCLC leaders consited of:
-Martin Luter KIng, Jr. (Served as president)
-Ralph Abernathy (Served as the SCLC's oranizer)
-Andrew Young
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Formation of SNCC and the integration of the Woolworth’s lunch counter
WWW.history.comDuring the Civil Rights movement, the SNCC leaders were:
-Charles Sherrod
-Cordell Reagon
-Charles Jones
- Julian Bond
-John Lewis
-Stokely Carmichae -
Admission of Charlayne Hunter & Hamilton Holmes into the University of Georgia
VideoThe whole event was about integrating the University of Georgia after the "Brown Case" was settled. This was a big deal because this was the first university in Georgia to integrate. Today, Charlayne Hunter-Gault "established an academic scholarship for African American students." However, Hamilton Holmes unfortinately "died in his Atlanta home on October 26, 1995". -
Freedom Riders
WWW.history.comDuing this event, members of the SCLC such as, Ralph Abernathy and Martin Luther King Jr., rode the bus to test the interstate bus transportaion systems. They performed this by riding the bus and taking a journey all over the South. As a result, a few activists were arrested. However, the "New Georgia Encyclopedia" states,"Freedom Rides continued throughout the rest of the summer as successive waves of protesters, now with the benefit of federal protection. -
Albany Movement
WWW.pbs.orgThe SNCC & the SCLC worked together to "encouraged students and others in Albany to challenge the establishment and its segregation policies." However, the two anti-segregaton groups had already went into trouble when they ran into segregationists. Stated in the "New Georgia Encyclopedia","From King's perspective the Albany Movement was a failure, but African Americans in Albany disagree." -
March on Washington
WWW.history.comThe March on Washington was the largest event out of all the other enents in the Civil Rights movement. As stated in the "New Goergia Encyclopedia", "Martin Luther King Jr. led the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom". Their goal was to desegrigate public facilities & give African American citizens an opportunity for better jobs. During the event, citizens of the minority community marched to Washington D.C. with protestant sighns. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
www.history.comWhen the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was signed into law, racial descrimination and Jim Crow Laws became prohibited & unconstitutional. The act is so important because it gave Afican American citizens what they were fighting for the whole time. After the act was sighmed into law, public facilities were no more segregrated & citizens of the minority community were given better and equal opportunities as Whites -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
WWW.hitory.comAfter President Lyndon Johnson sighned the Civil Rights Act of 1964 into law, he later sighed the Voting Rights Act of 1965; giving African American citizens the right to vote. The sighing of the act was so important because American citizens of the minority comminuty could finally vote for their leaders and who represents them. -
Assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
WWW.history.comAs stated in the "New Georgia Encyclopedia", "Martin Luther King Jr., Baptist minister and president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), was the most prominent African American leader in the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s." -
Resources
<a href='"Save the Date!" SNCC 50th Anniversary Conference. N.p., n.d. Web. 16 Apr. 2015.' >Source3</a><a href='"New Georgia Encyclopedia." New Georgia Encyclopedia. N.p., n.d. Web. 16 Apr. 2015.' >Source2</a><a href='"History.com." History.com. A&E Television Networks, n.d. Web. 17 Apr. 2015.' >Source1</a>
