1. Taking on Segregation

2. Water Fountains

3. Workplace

4. Restaurants

5. Developing Civil Rights Movement
Demand for white soldiers created opportunities for African Americans, Latinos and White women
One million African Americans served in the armed forces. Many returned determined to fight for their own freedom
Civil rights organizations actively campaigned for voting rights and challenged Jim Crow laws.

6. Brown V. Board of Education
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7. Brown V. Board of Education

9. Crisis In Little Rock
Arkansas was the first southern state to admit African American students to state universities.
Gov Orval Faubus supported segregation.
He ordered the National Guard not to allow the “Little Rock Nine”
A federal judge ordered Faubus to allow the students to enter the school.
NAACP members drove 8 students. Elizabeth Eckford did not have a phone and had to walk to school where she was harassed by a crowd.

13. Montgomery Bus Boycott
Rosa Parks, a seamstress and a NAACP officer. She took a seat in the front row of a “colored” section of a Montgomery bus.
The bus driver ordered Parks to move to the back of the bus.
Parks was arrested for not giving her seat to the white passengers.
Martin Luther King Jr, lead a bus boycott

17. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR His beliefs were from the teachings of
Jesus- love one’s enemies
Ghandi- learned to resist oppression without violence.
SCLC (Southern Christian Leadership Conference)
To carry a nonviolent crusade against the evils of second class citizenship.
Staged protests and demonstrations

18. Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Sit-ins
African American protestors sat down at segregated lunch counters and refused to leave until they were served.