1. Ch. 27 Civil Rights in the 1950’s & Early 1960’s Mr. Buttell APUSH

2. “Biggest Damn Fool Mistake”

3. Chief Justice Earl Warren

4. NAACP Legal Defense Fund, INC Chief Counsel Argued successfully that white primaries unconstitutional Defends Brown v. Board of Education Johnson appoints to S.C. in late 60s, 1 st A.A. to high court

5. Brown v. Board of Education(1954 ) Linda Brown denied equal protection of laws under 14 th amendment May 17, 1954, case overturns Plessy 1955, proceed “with all deliberate speed”

6. Emmett Till Lynching, summer of 1955 in MS

7. Rosa Parks

8. Montgomery Bus Boycott 381 day boycott Nov. 1956 bus segregation declared illegal

9. Southern Christian Leadership Council (SCLC) Boycott elevates King to prominence SCLC and NAACP team up to tackle racial injustice

10. Massive Resistance KKK membership increases White Citizen Councils form “Southern Manifesto” signed by 101 members of Congress Pres. Eisenhower says nothing

11. Little Rock, 1957

12. Little Rock Nine

13. Blocked by Arkansas National Guard

14. 101 st Airborne

15. Greensboro, N.C. February 1, 1960

16. Nashville Sit-Ins

17. A Long Wait?

18. Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee Ella Baker starts grassroots organization of students 50,000 participate, 3,600 jailed Promotes “Participatory Democracy”

19. Non-Violent Resistance

20. Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)

21. Anniston AL lights the way!

23. Alabama, 1963

24. Freedom Riders in Montgomery

25. Welcome to Birmingham

26. Birmingham, 1963

30. “Putting on the Pressure”

31. Gov. George Wallace

32. Vivian Malone

33. June 11,1963: AL Gov. Wallace blocks two students from entering U of A Kennedy denounces racism on national TV Promises a new civil rights bill

34. June 12,1963: Medgar Evers, Pres. MS Chapter NAACP

35. Byron De La Beckwith 1963, 1994 & 1997

37. Asa Philip Randolph

38. Planning the March on Washington

40. John Lewis 1963 and 2003