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

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• http://library.thinkquest.org/J0112391/civil_rights_leaders.ht

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• http://www.infoplease.com/spot/bhmheroes1.html

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• http://

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• http://www.cnn.com/EVENTS/1997/mlk/links.html