4. 1954-Topeka, Kansas
Linda Brown
8 year old
Has to walk 2 miles
in order to attend a
“Black School”
Wants to attend the
“White” School that
is ½ mile away
5. Brown family takes
decision to court
Decision by Warren
Court
Judicial Activism-
Supreme Court will
solve social issues if
someone else won’t
Schools should be
desegregated “With All
Deliberate Speed”
7. 1955-Montgomery, AL
Rosa Parks sits down on a
bus
As the bus fills, she needs
to move to the back of the
bus!
She doesn’t-She is arrested
w/$10 fine
8. Rev. Martin Luther
King, Jr. organizes a
boycott
How??
Churches
King was arrested and
held for 2 weeks
Boycott went on for
381 days
In the end,
Montgomery finally
allowed bus riders to
sit where they wanted
& city starts to
integrate!
9. Money, Mississippi
Till was vacationing,
originally from Chicago
Whistled at a white
woman
3 days later, kidnapped,
beaten, shot, thrown in
the river.
2 men arrested, all
found innocent by an all
white jury
10.
11. Roy Bryant + J. W. Milam interviewed by Look
magazine
12.
13. 9 Black students want
to attend Little Rock
High in Arkansas.
Governor Orval
Faubus
Orders National Guard
to prevent the students
from entering.
Ike sends in US army
(101st Airborne) to
escort and protect the
students
1958-School was
canceled all year
1959-School was
integrated!!
14.
15. This is the first Civil
Rights bill since
Reconstruction.
It became a federal
crime to prevent
someone from voting.
Poll Taxes/Literacy
Tests
Not very successful!!
Thurmond’s
Filibuster!
16. Allowed the Federal Govt.
to inspect polling places
Became a crime to anyone
obstructing the federal
registration process
Keep Records of all
voters…
Longest filibuster in US
history
125 hours & 31 minutes
17. 1960 - Greensboro, NC
4 black college students
from NC A&T wanted
lunch @ Woolworth’s
They were denied so
they just sat there.
Day 2 - 27 people just
sat
Day 3 - 300 people sat
Day 4 - 1000 people sat
