 What was the decision in Plessy v. Ferguson?  What was the decision in Brown v. Board of Education?

 During the Civil Rights movement there were many people who were involved in fighting for African American Rights.  Many of these people were murdered or assassinated because of the work they were doing.  Without the famous and less famous people African Americans and many other people would not have the equal rights they enjoy today.

 Martin Luther King  Rosa Parks  Malcolm X  Medgar Evers  Emmett Till  Ralph Abernathy

 Led the civil rights movement in the United States  Organized the SCLC protests against segregation  Assassinated on April 4, 1968

 Refused to give up her seat to a white man on a bus  She was arrested, jailed, and fined  Her actions led to the Montgomery Bus Boycotts

 Dropped out of school and turned to crime  Joined the Nation of Islam in jail  Believed blacks were superior  Wanted a separate country for African- Americans  Believed in violence for change  Assassinated on February 21, 1965

 Joined the NAACP to fight for Civil rights  Assassinated June 12, 1963  White segregationist was tried three times for the murder and was finally convicted in 1994

 14 year old boy killed for flirting with a white girl  He was beaten, had his eye gouged out and shot through the head and then dumped in a river  His funeral was open casket to show people the brutality

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 Worked with MLK  Helped organized the Montgomery Bus Boycott  Took over the SCLC after MLK was assassinated

 Besides Martin Luther King, name one figure of the civil rights movement and what he or she did.