1.30.24 The Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Crisis at Little Rock.pptx
Civil Rights Movement
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2. CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
The civil rights
movement was a
worldwide political
movement for equality
before the law
occurring between
about 1950 and 1980.
5. Integration
In the last decade of the
nineteenth century in
the United States,
racially discriminatory
laws and racial
violence aimed at
African Americans and
other minority groups
began to mushroom.
6. Black Power
By 1965, the emergence of the Black
Power movement (1966–1975)
began to gradually eclipse the
original "integrated power" aims of
the civil rights movement that had
been espoused by Martin Luther
King, Jr.. Advocates of Black Power
argued for black self determination.
9. Marriage - Young Adult
Years
Married barber and civil rights activist
Raymond Parks in 1932. With Raymond’s
support, Rosa finally gratuated from high
school in 1934.
Together, they worked for the Montgomery
chapter of the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People.(NAACP)
10. Greatest Achievement
Sparking the modern civil rights
movement in the United States
by refusing to give up her bus
seat to a white passenger. Rosa
Parks’s arrest for breaking
Montgomery segregation laws
started a boycott of the city bus
line that lasted 381 days.
11. Adult years Awards: Over the years
Rosa Parks has
received hundreds of
awards and honors
including the medal of
freedom award
presented by President
Clinton in 1996.
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14. In 1964, King became the youngest person to
receive the Nobel Peace Prize for his work to end
racial segregation and racial discrimination
through civil disobedience and other nonviolent
means. By the time of his death in 1968, he had
refocused his efforts on ending poverty and
stopping the Vietnam War.
