1. Civil Rights Movement
Making changes

2. Peaceful Protests Pave the Way for Change
Passive Movements

3. Rosa Parks December 1, 1955 Sat in the middle of the bus
The front was reserved for white riders
Did not get up when the bus driver told her to move for a white man
Bus driver called the Montgomery Police
Rosa was arrested
Rosa Parks

4. National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
NAACP

5. Sit ins CORE Peaceful Protest
Congress of Racial Equality
Peaceful Protest
Used in restaurants, theaters, and public facilities
Shames the business owners by showing discrimination
Sit ins

6. Thurgood Marshall Attorney NAACP Chief Counsel
Focused on ending segregation in Public School
Thurgood Marshall

7. Linda Brown Denied admission to her neighborhood school Topeka, Kansas
Her parents sued the school board
Linda Brown

8. Brown v. Board of Education
Thurgood Marshall
African American Attorney
Linda Brown
Denied Admission to school based on race
Kansas schools would not admit her
Told to go the all-black school across town
May 17, 1954
Supreme Court rules against segregated schools
Applied only to public schools
Brown v. Board of Education

9. Montgomery Bus Boycotts
Martin Luther King Jr. chosen as the leader
Boycott lasted a year
Instead of riding the bus people car pooled or walked to work
Supreme Court ruled that bus segregation was ruled unconstitutional
Montgomery Bus Boycotts

10. Martin Luther King Jr. Earn a PhD. From Boston University
Believed in nonviolent passive resistance.
Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
Set out to eliminate all segregation
Encouraged people to go vote
Martin Luther King Jr.

11. Crisis in Little Rock September 1957
Nine African American students were admitted to Central High School
Arkansas National Guard was ordered to keep students out
President Eisenhower had to step in and send troops
Crisis in Little Rock

12. Rode buses to the South to show the problems with segregation
Angry mobs attacked people on the buses
Police contacted the KKK to beat bus riders
Freedom Riders

13. Civil Rights Act of 1964 July 2, 1964
President Lyndon B. Johnson signed this act into Law
Gave people equal access to public places
Banned job discrimination based on race, religion, gender, and national origin.
Civil Rights Act of 1964

14. Voting Rights Act of 1965 August 3, 1965
Federal Examiners were sent to help people register to vote
No more literacy test
1965
100 African Americans held elected official positions
1990
5,000 held elected official positions
Voting Rights Act of 1965

15. New Civil Rights Issues
A different stance

16. Urban Problems Watts Riots Racism The Kerner Commission
Prejudice or discrimination towards someone because of their race.
African Americans made 55% of what the typical White family made
Watts Riots
$45 million in damage
34 people killed
900 injured
The Kerner Commission
Blamed to riots on racism
Suggested more public housing and the creation of inner-city jobs
Urban Problems

17. Black Power Did not want to assimilate
Physical self-defense and violence were acceptable
Stressed Pride in the African American culture.
Did not want to assimilate
When the minority group adapts the majorities culture and ways of li
These ideas were popular in poor neighborhoods
Black Power

18. Malcolm X Joined the Black Muslims Broke off from the Nation of Islam
African Americans should separate themselves from White people and form their own government.
Broke off from the Nation of Islam
He was shot and killed by Nation of Islam members in 1965
Influenced the idea of Black Panthers
Wanted people to arm themselves and fight for equal rights
Malcolm X

19. Assassination of Dr. King
April 4, 1968 Dr. King stood on his balcony of his hotel in Memphis, TN
He was shot and killed by a sniper
Congress passed the Civil Rights Act of 1968
Allowed for people to have fair housing options and for the justice system to take action against people who did not follow those laws.
Assassination of Dr. King