Civil Rights Movement
(1950's-1960's)

Decision

Impact

desegregated

overturned Plessy vs. Ferguson

separate but equal laws

Montgomery Bus Boycott

Rosa Parks

Lead by MLK Jr.

Major turning point
in Civil Rights

Integration of Clinton High School
Clinton, TN

first school desegregated

blown up with dynamite

national guard came in

Integration of Central High School
Little Rock, AR

tried to desegregate

Governor Orval Faubus
refused integration

National Guard Came in

President (Eisenhower) vs. Governor

Eisenhower sent 101st Air
Borne to let black students in

Freedom Riders

Protesting bus discrimination

riding in wrong sections

violent mobs from opposition

Tent City in Fayette County, TN

Outside Memphis

Protesting government

Evicting for voting

Marches, demonstrations, boycotts, and sit-ins

MLK Jr. lead these

Met with aggression and opposition

March on Washington, DC

MLK. Jr "I have A Dream"

Birmingham bombing of 1963

four little girls killed

K.K.K. Black Church attack

Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.

Assassinated outside of the
Lorraine Motel Memphis, TN 1968

Lorraine Motel now
the Civil Rights Hotel

James Earl Ray

Arrested in England after his arrival

Highlander Folk Park

Monteagle, TN

School and training
for Civil Rights leaders

Civil Rights Act of 1964

outlawed segregation

covered more than
just African Americans

Voting Rights Act of 1965

banned literacy tests, poll taxes,
Grandfather clause etc.

Federal Government could intervene

Civil Rights Act of 1968

Prevented discrimination
in housing/buildings

Malcolm X

"by any means necessary"

aggressive MLK Jr.

Murdered in Harlem, NY

Thurgood Marshall

First Black Supreme Court Justice

Rosa Parks

refused bus seat for white man

Montgomery, AL

Montgomery bus boycot

Bull Connor

Police Chief

beat marchers in Selma, AL

Orval Faubus

Governor of Arkansas

refused students in
Little Rock High School

Strom Thurmond

Senator from South Carolina

Filibustered (delayed) Civil Rights Act

one of the longest filibuster
in history of U.S.

American Indian Movement

known as A.I.M.

movement treated as terrorism

Took over Alcatraz Island

Chicano Movement

Civil Rights for Mexican Americans

Feminist Movement

Rights for Women

Equal Pay

Birth Control

Right to divorce