1. The Civil Rights Movement

2. Segregation Divides America
Jim Crow laws separate African Americans and whites
De Jure segregation- segregation enforced by the law
This was the case in the South
De Facto segregation- segregation by unwritten custom or tradition
This was the case in the North

3. Brown vs. Board of Education
Brown vs. Board of Education- Desegregated all public schools
Occurred in Topeka, Kansas

4. Decision Faces Backlash
Little Rock Nine- nine African Americans students faces mob opposing integration

5. Montgomery Bus Boycott
Rosa Parks refuses to sit in the back of the bus which was required by law in Alabama
Leads to the Montgomery Bus Boycott Movement

6. Martin Luther King Promotes Nonviolence
Inspired by Henry David Thoreau and Mohandas Gandhi
Believed protest should be done peacefully
Established the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)

7. Greensboro Sit-ins
Four Students from North Carolina A&T sat at lunch counter at Woolworth’s and refused to leave until closing time
Sit-ins were used as a form of non-violent protest

8. March on Washington August 28, 1963
In front of the Lincoln Memorial, Martin Luther King delivers his famous “I Have a Dream” Speech

9. Selma
Protest took place on Edmund Pettus Bridge which was the main route from Selma to Montgomery
Led by King to protest for equal voting rights

10. Congress Passes Legislation
Civil Rights Act of Bans segregation
Voting Rights Act of banned literacy test and established equal voting rights
24th Amendment- banned the poll tax

11. New Voices for African Americans
Malcom X- rejected his slave name and joined the Nation of Islam
Demanded a separation of the races
Black Panthers- a more militant organization supporting “black power”

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