1. The Civil Rights Movement The Civil Rights Movement Pathway to the Dreamt Equality

2. Roaring 20s – 1920-1929 Great Depression – 1929-1933 US Involvement in WWII – 1941-1945 Cold War – 1945-1990 CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT – 1954-1968

3. What is the Civil Rights movement? A movement in the United States beginning in the 1950s to 1960s led primarily by Blacks in an effort to establish the civil rights of individual Black citizens especially in the Southern States

4. 1954 - Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka 1955 - Montgomery Bus Boycott 1960 - Greensboro Sit-in and the Sit-in movement 1961 - Freedom Riders 1963 - Birmingham and the March on Washington 1964 - Freedom Sumer 1965 - Selma to Montgomery March 1965 - Voting Rights Act 1968 - Assassination of Martin Luther King

5.  CORE (Congress of Racial Equality)  NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People)  SNCC (Student Non-violent Coordinating Council)  SCLC (Southern Christian Leadership Conference)

7. Martin Luther King, Jr. Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his famous "I Have a Dream" speech. He quickly became the de facto leader of the civil rights movement and led the Montgomery Bus Boycott. He was later assassinated on April 4 th 1968. Rosa Parks was arrested for sitting in the wrong part of the bus. She also helped lead the Montgomery bus Boycott.

8. Malcolm X His argument against the "separate but equal" doctrine achieved its greatest impact handed down in Brown v. Board of Topeka (1954). He was the first black to sit in the high court. Muslim minister, human rights activist, black nationalist and founder of the Organization of Afro-American Unity. He was later assassinated in 1965 while delivering a speech

9. Impact  It established that discrimination was unjust and would no longer be tolerated  The efforts of the Civil Rights Movement ended segregation publicly and legally.  The era redesigned the nation's social system.  The efforts to help a specific group united many citizens to achieve a common goal.  People, regardless of race, fought together for the just treatment of African Americans.

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