2.  What would the Civil Rights Movement be without the brave men and women who fought for equal rights? These leaders dedicated their lives to ending slavery, segregation, and unfair treatment. We want to thank these great people and help you learn more about them. Find the leaders you would like to learn more about in the alphabetical list below, and click on their names for amazing stories you will never forget!

3.  Rosa Parks was arrested for sitting in the wrong part of the bus! Learn how she worked with civil rights organizations to start the Montgomery Bus Boycott and help end segregation on buses in the South.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8A9gvb 5Fh0

4.  By refusing to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery, Alabama, city bus in 1955, black seamstress Rosa Parks (1913—2005) helped initiate the civil rights movement in the United States. The leaders of the local black community organized a bus boycott that began the day Parks was convicted of violating the segregation laws.black community

5.  The Montgomery Bus Boycott, in which African Americans refused to ride city buses in Montgomery, Alabama, to protest segregated seating, took place from December 5, 1955, to December 20, 1956, and is regarded as the first large-scale demonstration against segregation in the U.S. On December 1, 1955, four days before the boycott began, Rosa Parks, an African-American woman, refused to yield her seat to a white man on a Montgomery bus. She was arrested and fined. The boycott of public buses by blacks in Montgomery began on the day of Parks' court hearing and lasted 381 days. The U.S. Supreme Court ultimately ordered Montgomery to integrate its bus system, and one of the leaders of the boycott, a young pastor named Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-68), emerged as a prominent national leader of the American civil rights movement in the wake of the action.

6.  Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his famous "I Have a Dream" speech and led the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Read more about the many other things he did to help all people work peacefully to win equal rights.

7.  Malcolm X worked to end segregation in the 1960's. He preached to others that they should do whatever they needed to do to fight for their rights.

8.  What do you know about non-violent resistance?  Why do you think King endorsed“non-violence”  when violence against protesters was so commonplace?  we think about struggle and a fight but  we also think about the leaders like Martin Luther King and Malcom X but how they were different  in how they wanted to get the message out it is non- violent Vs Violent protests and demonstrations.

9.  The Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), formed to give younger blacks more of a voice in the civil rights movement, became one of the movement's more radical branches. In the wake of the early sit-ins at lunch counters closed to blacks, which started in February 1960 in Greensboro, North Carolina, Ella Baker, then director of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), helped set up the first meeting of what became SNCC. She was concerned that SCLC, led by the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., was out of touch with younger blacks who wanted the movement to make faster progress. Baker encouraged those who formed SNCC to look beyond integration to broader social change and to view King's principle of nonviolence more as a political tactic than as a way of life.Christian LeadershipConference

10.  March on Washington: Commonly referred to as the March on Washington, the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom brought over 200,000 people to the nation's capitol to protest racial discrimination and show support for civil rights legislation that was pending in Congress. The March on Washington took place on August 28, 1963.Jobs

11.  Speaking with bitter eloquence against the white exploitation of black people, Malcolm developed a brilliant platform style, which soon won him a large and dedicated following. He derided the civil-rights movement and rejected both integration and racial equality, calling instead for black separatism, black pride, and black self- dependence. Because he advocated the use of violence (for self-protection) and appeared to many to be a fanatic, his leadership was rejected by most civil-rights leaders, who emphasized nonviolent resistance to racial injustice.

14.  The Civil Rights Movement took several decades to achieve its goal  equal rights for African Americans. Along the way, several key events helped to shape the outcome.  By creating a timeline of events we will see that the civil rights movement started at the signing og the constitution.