Civil Rights Movement

Marisa R., Shikina T., Natasha P., Crystal B.

Background

• Movement to ensure the equality of African Americans

• Deserved the basic privileges and rights of U.S. citizen

Jim Crow’s LawBlack people were

treated rather unfairly and were

separated from the white people.White people

treated the black people

with less respect.

Causes of Segregation

Defined as

a struggle against racial segregation

Rosa Parks

• December 1, 1995

• Parks was arrested on charges of disorderly conduct and violating local ordinance

• December 5,1955

Martin Luther King

• Led the boycott in 1955

• Helped form Southern Christian Leadership Conference in 1957

• Leader of the entire Civil Rights Movement in 1960

Thurgood Marshall

• Lawyer

• After graduating he started his work

• First African American justice of the Supreme Court

• 1954

The Little Rock Nine

• 3 years after Brown v. Board of Education case

• Minnijean Brown, Terrance Roberts, Elizabeth Eckford, Ernest Green, Thelma Mothershed, Melba Patillo, Gloria Ray, Jefferson Thomas, and Carlotta Walls

• September 4, 1957

• September 23, 1957

Watts Riot

Works Cited

• "Little Rock School Desegregation (1957)" Standford.edu. 3 September 2014

• "Little Rock Nine Foundation" littlerock9.com 3 September 2014

• Grimm, Laura "Thurgood Marshal Biography" biography.com 3 September 2014

• History.com Staff "Thurgood Marshall" History.com 3 September 2014

• "Martin Luther King Jr. Contributions" castle.eiu.edu 3 September 2014

• "Rosa Parks' contribution to civil rights, history lives on" herald-dispatch.com 3 September 2014

• Brunner, Borgna "Heroes of the Civil Rights Movement" infoplease.com 3 September 2014

• Jim Crow Museum “What was Jim Crow?” ferris.edu September 2000

• “Civil Rights Movement: Desegregation” shmoop.com 2014

• Civil Rights Digital Library “Watts Riot” crdl.usg.edu November 20, 2013