1. Civil Rights
Cultural Literacy

2. Unit Objective
Learning and understanding the important figures, events, and cultural symbols of the era

3. Martin Luther King Jr.
Leader of the non-violent
Civil Rights Movement

4. Rosa Parks Sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott by refusing
to give up her seat on the
bus

5. Montgomery Bus Boycott
First organized
Civil Rights
protest

6. Thurgood Marshall First African American appointed to the
Supreme Court

7. Little Rock 9: Group of African American teenagers who tried to integrate Central High School

8. Lunch Counter Sit-Ins

9. 16th Street Baptist Church Bombing

10. Medgar Evers Leader of the Mississippi branch of the NAACP
who was assassinated
in his own driveway

11. Bull Connor: Public Safety Commissioner who authorized the use of violence against non-violent protestors in Birmingham, Alabama

12. Birmingham Violence

13. Birmingham Violence Continued

14. March on Selma: To protest for more voting rights

15. Malcolm X A leader of the Nation of Islam who believed
in some use of violence
until later in life; Was
assassinated by his
own group

16. Black Power: Movement that advocated Black Pride and some use of violence