Civil Rights Movement (1950s-1960s)

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Civil Rights Movement (1950s-1960s)

Minority movement

Chicago movement civil rights for mexican americans

Femenist movement - civil rights for women equal pay birth control right to divorce

American Indian Movement - AIM took over alcatraz island

Civil rights oppertunities

Strom Thermand - senator of south carolina that filibustered civil rights act

Orval Fabus - governer of Arkansas and refused to let student in little rock

Bull Conner - racist policeman that beat Marchuise in Selma alabama

Civil rights advocates

Rosa Parks - bus sit in Montgomery AL Led the Montgomery bus boycott

Thurgood Marshall - Black supreme court Justice,

Malcolm X - by any means necessary alternative to MLK murdered in harlem

Civil and voting rights law

Civil Rights Act of 1968 - prevented discrimination in housing

Voting Rights Act of 1965 - Outlawed the banning of voting based on race, income, or literacy test

Civil Rights act 1964- outlawed segregation

Significant events

Highlander Folk school - Mont Eagle Tennessee school for civil rights leaders

Asassination of MLK Jr. - James Earl Ray

Birmingham bombings in the 1963 - 4 little girls killed in a church

March on Washington DC - I have a dream

Morches, demonstrations, boycotts, and sit ins - Lunch counter that desegregates

Tent city of Fayette county TN - protesting government and eviction for voting

Freedom Riders - Fights against descrimination starting to ride all buses to stop segregation. Met by violent mobs who burned buses

Intergration of central high school in little rock - Blew up Clinton High school with dynamite nation gard came in governer refused to desegregate

integration of clinton high school in TN - First school desegregated blew up Clinton High school with dynamite

Montgomery bus boycott - Rosa Parks led by MLK major turning point for civil rights

Brown V. The Board of Education

Impact - Desegregated public schools overturned plessy V. Ferguson -separate but equal

Decision - 1954 9-0 it was unanimous