The Civil Rights Movement Origins of the Civil Rights Movement What was it? Jackie Robinson President Truman “Jim Crow” Laws NAACP Sweatt v. Painter (1950) 1953 Kansas Court Ruling Thurgood Marshall The Brown Decision Segregation in the South Brown v. Board of Education (1954) Orval Faubus President Eisenhower U.S. Supreme Court The Little Rock Nine (1957) The Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955-1956) Rosa Parks Buses Boycotted Federal Court Ruling
Maintaining the Status Quo Congressional Bloc of Southern Democrats Civil Rights Act of 1957 President Eisenhower Maintaining the Status Quo Lester Maddox George Wallace Congressional Bloc of Southern Democrats Civil Rights Movement in the Sixties Sit-Ins Freedom Riders Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Called for Civil Disobedience “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” Billy Graham March on Washington (1963) “I Have a Dream Speech” The Fight Continues JFK Assassination Civil Rights Act of 1964 Selma Marches (1965) 24th Amendment Voting Rights Act of 1965 MLK Assassination