S.S

2. • Began after
Reconstruction
• State and local laws
enforced racial
segregation in the
South

3. • 1954 Supreme Court decision
• NAACP lawyer
Thurgood Marshall
leads defense
• Overturns
Plessy v. Ferguson
• Ends segregated schools

4. • Resistance across the south
• “White flight”
from public schools
to private
• National Guard
called to Little
Rock High

5. https://youtu.be/xERXusiEszs

7. • Baptist minister from
Atlanta
• Coordinated nonviolent
resistance
• Led Montgomery Bus
Boycott
• Youngest Nobel Peace
Prize winner

8. • Began the
Montgomery
Bus Boycott
• Member of
the NAACP
• Called the “First
Lady of the Civil
Rights
Movement

9. • Fierce advocate for
African Americans
• Member of Nation of
Islam but later left
• Disagreed with
MLK’s non-violent
strategy for
equality

10. • US Attorney General
• Helps protect the
“Freedom Riders”
• Supports desegregation
as NY Senator
• Assassinated in 1968 as
he began campaign for
presidency

11. Elizabeth Eckford
attempting to attend
Little Rock High
School

12. Sit in at Woolworth’s in Greensboro, NC in 1960

13. The Freedom Riders in 1961

14. Birmingham
Fire
Department
hosing down
nonviolent
protestors in
1964

15. Civil rights demonstrator attacked by a police dog in Alabama in 1963.

16. The Soiling of Old Glory – Boston, 1976

18. • Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I have a
dream” speech
• Builds support
for civil rights
legislation
• Shows power
of non-violent
protest

19. • Introduced by JFK
• Prohibits
discrimination
based on race,
religion, ethnicity,
or gender
• New President
Lyndon Johnson
gets it passed

20. • Outlawed literacy
tests for voting
• Increases
African
American
voters

21. • American
sprinters
Tommie Smith &
John Carlos
raise black
gloves on medal
stand
• Both expelled
from the games