Civil Rights Part 3

Section 2 The Triumphs of a Crusade

1954 – Brown v. Board of Education
1955 – Emmett Till is killed in Mississippi
1955 – Rosa Parks helps spark Montgomery Bus Boycott
1957 – Little Rock 9 integrates Central High School in Arkansas
1960 – Sit-ins take place in Greensboro, NC and around the country

August 1955
Emitt Till, 14 yr. old African American boy killed in Money, Mississippi
Killed for at a white woman.
Both killers were found for the crime.
Till’s death sparked more interest in the Civil Rights movement.

Short Answer Topics
Impact of TV on the Civil Rights movement.

Jesus, Thoreau, Randolph, Gandhi

Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee
(SNCC)

The 14 th Amendment

James Meredith

1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott (Rosa Parks)

No, because the Supreme Court ruled segregated seating on interstate buses unconstitutional.

To test the federal government to see if they would back up the law.

Anniston, Alabama

Compare & Contrast
Martin Luther King Jr.
Stokely Carmichael
Malcolm X
Beliefs
Strategies
Slogan’s
Organizations

Civil Rights Part 3

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