Civil Rights Movement

Resulted to the passing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964

One of America's largest of about 200,000 to 300,000 participants to march on the Mall of Washington D.C during August 28, 1963

This was the time when Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. presented his "I Have a Dream" speech standing on the steps of Lincoln Memorial

"Freedom Riders"

Protested on segregation of waiting rooms in southern terminals

African Americans and white volunteers took bus rides south to test the enforcement of US Supreme Court's decision of prohibiting segregation on interstate transportation

Experienced attacks from Ku Klux Klan and mobbed severely

When they reached Rock Hill, South Carolina, John Lewis was mobbed badly and becomes chairman of SNCC

Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)

Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)

Protest resulting in jailing of King with a sentence of 45 days

King's Letter from Birmingham Jail

King's Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)

Sparked the social movement of intergration on public transportation

Many African American Civil Rights protesters stop riding the bus to walk or get rides

Result of Rosa Parks refusing to give up her to white male passenger

The 1st major movement of Civil Right Movement

Protest against segregated housing, education, employment and health insurance based on race

Protesters experienced getting attacked by rocks, bottles, and firecrackers

Contributed to the the Fair Housing Act passing in 1969

Protest against the drafting of American men around the ages of 18 and 26 who were not married, in college and etc. to fight in Vietnam War

King fought against the drafting claim that it would put America in more poverty, debt and problems in the long run

King went to Memphis to support sanitation workers to unionize

King was shot and killed standing on the balcony of a motel in Memphis Tennessee

Many cities exploded with violence with angry African Americans riots

The world went in chaos and new leaders took charge or created new groups

Black Power

Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture) became chairman of SNCC

The idea of black separatism

Nation of Islam supported the idea

Malcolm X, famous me

The idea that blacks and whites should live apart and solve their own problems

Major march was at Solidarity Day Rally for Jobs, Peace and Freedom on June 19

Multicultural movement working to assist with more economic and human rights for poor Americans