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Morning of August 28, ten o'clock there was a huge crowd of people. gathered on monument grounds. By the end of the day, 250,000 people had gathered. Participants included blacks, whites, actors, and about three hundred Congressional representatives. . .
Rosa Parks, 1955 The Mother of the Civil Rights, Mrs. Parks was arrested off the bus. Eventhough this wasn't the first incident she still decided to ride the bus, and refused to get out of her seat eventhough she was in the black section.
THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
March on Washington
They say seperate but equal but it doesn't look like it to me. This trial took place 1896. SEGREGATION!
Plessy v.s. Ferguson
The Little Rock 9, This began as a test to try to integrate schools. So they took 9 black girls and showed them 2 dolls a black one and a white one, all the little black girls picked up the white dolls because they get better benefits. So they put 9 girls in the white school and where turned away, so they came back again and met an angry mob.
Thurgood Marshall Leader of NAACP
Thurgood Marshall, major contributor of the NAACP, first black Supreme Court Justice, that helped pass Brown v.s. Board of Education. Helped Linda Brown go to the all white school.
Linda Brown, Little black girl that lives near a white school but had to go out of the way just because of her skin tone. This later became an imfamous trial titled Brown v.s. Board. With the outcome of Linda being able to attend the that school. Passed 1954, helped by Thurgood Marshall.
Brown v.s. Board
Rosa Parks Rosa Parks
Little Rock 9
Freedom Rides
Freedom Rides, CORE protests, bus went through the Alabama, specifically Anniston and Birmingham. Where they were bombed and beaten.
Black Panthers
MLK Dead?
Martin Luther King shot out on the Lorraine Motel Balcony on the evening of April 4, 1968, in Room 306 . King and others were getting ready to go to a banquette when he stepped out his door. King had fallen to the concrete floor of the balcony with a large, gaping wound covering his right jaw.
Black Power Movement, The Black Panthers, influenced by Malcolm X. They did not believe in violence unless violence was inflicted upon them first. Stokely Carmichael, Medgar Evers, Ralph Abernathy, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King were all leaders of this cause.
Voting and Civil Rights Acts
Civil Rights Act -Officially happened in 1964, people had equal rights and EVERYTHING had to be integrated! Voting Rights Act -Officially happened in 1965, blacks actually had a right to vote without having to pass a literacy test or having to own property or being taxed. What a happy time!!!
Barack Obama
First Black President! Elected Nov. 4, 2008 Man We Have Come So Far!!!
