The Civil Rights Movement 1954-1968
What happened before this???? Plessy vs. Ferguson Courts Ruled that “Separate but Equal” IS Constitutional PROBLEM Not equal facilities Jim Crow Laws Public Segregation
Important People lead to integration Jackie Robinson (1947) 1st Black American to play Major League Baseball
THURGOOD MARSHALL Thurgood Marshall Legal Defense in Brown vs. Board of Education Became 1st Black American Supreme Court Justice
Important Civil Rights LEADERS Martin Luther King Jr. Advocated for: Nonviolence Civil Disobedience Strikes Sit Ins Equality Assassinated (1968) James Earl Ray Sniper Memphis
“Sit In” Example of Civil Disobedience Peaceful African Americans and white protestors would sit at the “whites only” lunch-counters, restaurants, and other public facilities
Important Civil Rights LEADERS Continued… Malcolm X Militant Leader Advocated “Black Power” Assassinated (1965) 21 Gunshot wounds Multiple Guns Nation of Islam Separate themselves from whites and form their own governing communities