1. Handout, “Civil Rights Leaders”
What are the similarities and differences of these individuals?
What facts stand out to you about their lives?

2. Freedom Rides
Effort to desegregate or racially integrate buses and bus waiting areas.

3. Birmingham Campaign, March 3 – April 10, 1963
Campaign to bring national attention to segregation in Birmingham, AL.
Effort to racially integrate city’s restaurants, public facilities, schools, and stores.

4. George Wallace
A supporter of segregation in Alabama, he is a national symbol for this movement.
Governor of Alabama: 1963 – 1967, 1971 – 1979, 1983 – 1987

5. Murder of Medgar Evers * Civil Rights activist in Mississippi
* Killed June 12, 1963
* Killed in front of his wife and kids in his own driveway.