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The Civil Rights Movement Pathway to the Dreamt Equality
By:
Peter Vang
Jonathan Joniggs
Jordan Corla Reyes
Roaring 20s – 1920-1929
Great Depression – 1929-1933
US Involvement in WWII – 1941-1945
Cold War – 1945-1990
CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT – 1954-
1968
US History Overview (1900s)
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
• 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
Timeline of Events
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)
Key Organizations
Key People
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Rosa Parks
Thurgood Marshall
Malcolm X
Rosa Parks
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 4th 1968.
Rosa Parks was arrested for sitting in the wrong part of the bus. She also helped lead the Montgomery bus Boycott.
Thurgood Marshall
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
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.
External References:
• http://www.usm.edu/crdp/html/cd/groups.htm
• http://www.history.com/topics/civil-rights-movement-history
• http://www.history.com/topics/civil-rights-movementt
• http://library.thinkquest.org/J0112391/civil_rights_leaders.ht
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• http://www.infoplease.com/spot/bhmheroes1.html
• http
://www.econ.yale.edu/seminars/echist/eh06/wright-061206.p
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• http://
www.socialistalternative.org/literature/panther/ch3.html
• http://www.cnn.com/EVENTS/1997/mlk/links.html