The Civil rights movement led by Martin Luther King Jnr during the late 1960's

1. civil rights movement

2. The Montgomery bus boycott
• In 1955 Rosa Parks, was arrested when she refused to give up her sit
for a white man .
• Her arrest gave local black women's organisation and civil rights
groups to organise bus boycotts
• Martin Luther king was the one who led the boycott which lasted for
about a year
• 13 months later segregation bus law in Alabama was declared
unconstitutional by supreme court

3. STUDENTS AND THE MOVEMENT
THE SIT-INS
• These young men sat at the counter and refused to leave until served.
• One year after the young men had sat down at the all white lunch
counter, more than seventy thousands Americans participated in the
sit-in movement.
• City by city they had challenged Jim Crow segregation at lunch
counters in the South and protested to national chains that practiced
segregation in their Southern stores.
• The student nonviolent student coordinating committee (SNCC)
played a major role during the sit-in movement.

4. FREEDOM RIDERS
 4 MAY 1961 13 members of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE).
This racially integrated group, calling themselves freedom riders
meant to demonstrate that, despite the Supreme Court rulings
ordering the desegregation of interstate buses and bus stations.
These young men and women knew they were risking and some
suffered injuries which they never recovered.
One bus was fired bomb outside Anniston, Alabama.
Riders were badly beaten in Birmingham.

5. The Birmingham campaign
King and his Southern Christian Leadership (SCLC) began to plan a
1963 campaign in one of the violent cities Birmingham.
Through this campaign King wanted all Americans to see the racist
hate and violence that married their nation.
They put children on the front lines of the protest.
The police used water, guns and set dogs to disperse the crowd.
This protests brought pressure to Kennedy and he agreed to
negotiate a settlement.

6. March to washington
• 28 august 1963 Martin Luther King led the March to Washington
• About a quarter million participants in support of Kennedy's civil
rights bill
• Wanted federal action to guarantee work opportunities
• I have a dream speech made
• The march to Washington for jobs and freedom was a moment of
triumph demonstrating to the nation the determination of its African
American citizens to secure equality and justice.

7. Civil rights act
• After Kennedy was assassinated in 1963.
• His successor Lyndon Johnson made civil rights his top legislative
priority.
• In July Johnson signed into law the civil rights Act of 1964
• The 1964 civil rights Act gave the civil rights movement a major
legislative victory.

8. QUESTIONS AND COMMENTS