1. The Civil Rights Movement

2. What happened before this????
Plessy vs. Ferguson
Courts Ruled that “Separate but Equal” IS Constitutional
PROBLEM
Not equal facilities
Jim Crow Laws
Public Segregation

3. Important People lead to integration
Jackie Robinson (1947)
1st Black American to play Major League Baseball

4. THURGOOD MARSHALL Thurgood Marshall
Legal Defense in Brown vs. Board of Education
Became 1st Black American Supreme Court Justice

5. Important Civil Rights LEADERS
Martin Luther King Jr.
Advocated for:
Nonviolence
Civil Disobedience
Strikes
Sit Ins
Equality
Assassinated (1968)
James Earl Ray
Sniper
Memphis

6. “Sit In” Example of Civil Disobedience Peaceful
African Americans and white protestors would sit at the “whites only” lunch-counters, restaurants, and other public facilities

10. Important Civil Rights LEADERS Continued…
Malcolm X
Militant Leader
Advocated “Black Power”
Assassinated (1965)
21 Gunshot wounds
Multiple Guns
Nation of Islam
Separate themselves from whites and form their own governing communities