1.  What was the decision in Plessy v. Ferguson?  What was the decision in Brown v. Board of Education?

3.  During the Civil Rights movement there were many people who were involved in fighting for African American Rights.  Many of these people were murdered or assassinated because of the work they were doing.  Without the famous and less famous people African Americans and many other people would not have the equal rights they enjoy today.

4.  Martin Luther King  Rosa Parks  Malcolm X  Medgar Evers  Emmett Till  Ralph Abernathy

5.  Led the civil rights movement in the United States  Organized the SCLC protests against segregation  Assassinated on April 4, 1968

6.  Refused to give up her seat to a white man on a bus  She was arrested, jailed, and fined  Her actions led to the Montgomery Bus Boycotts

7.  Dropped out of school and turned to crime  Joined the Nation of Islam in jail  Believed blacks were superior  Wanted a separate country for African- Americans  Believed in violence for change  Assassinated on February 21, 1965

8.  Joined the NAACP to fight for Civil rights  Assassinated June 12, 1963  White segregationist was tried three times for the murder and was finally convicted in 1994

9.  14 year old boy killed for flirting with a white girl  He was beaten, had his eye gouged out and shot through the head and then dumped in a river  His funeral was open casket to show people the brutality

10.  WARNING THE NEXT SLIDE IS GRAPHIC

12.  Worked with MLK  Helped organized the Montgomery Bus Boycott  Took over the SCLC after MLK was assassinated

13.  Besides Martin Luther King, name one figure of the civil rights movement and what he or she did.