Booker T. Washington on freedom “ It is important and right that all privileges of law be ours, but it is vastly more important that we be prepared for the exercise of those privileges.”
Brown v. Board of Education 1954
Southern White protest
Thurgood Marshall Lawyer for the Brown family
August 1955 Emmett Till
Emmett Till’s jury
Emmett’s Funeral
Dec Rosa Parks
Dr. King becomes the voice of Civil Rights Movement 1957
Little Rock black students are refused entrance into Central High School
Sit-Ins 1960
James Meridith first black to enroll in University of Mississippi— Riots cause President Kennedy to call in 5,000 federal troops.
April 16, 1963 Dr. King is arrested (again) Jailed in Birmingham
May 1963 Birmingham protest
June Medgar Evers is murdered
August 1963 King Dream Speech in DC
Sept Birmingham
Feb Malcolm X
March 1965 Bloody Sunday
April