The document provides a pictorial overview of key events in the American Civil Rights Movement from 1954 to 1968, including the Brown vs Board of Education Supreme Court decision, the Montgomery Bus Boycott led by Martin Luther King Jr., Freedom Riders opposing segregation on buses, King's "Letter from Birmingham Jail" explaining why he felt compelled to promote freedom beyond his hometown, the March on Washington where King delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech, the bombing of a church in Birmingham that killed four girls, the Selma to Montgomery voting rights march led by King, the assassinations of Malcolm X in 1965 and Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968, and the Watts riots in Detroit in 1965.

1. Key Events in the American Civil
Rights Movement
A Pictorial Overview

2. 1954 – Brown vs. Board of Education

3. 1957 - Little Rock Central High School
desegregated

4. 1955-57 – Montgomery Bus Boycott

5. 1961 - Freedom Riders Oppose Segregation

6. April 16, 1963 - "Letter from Birmingham Jail"
 But more basically, I am in Birmingham because
injustice is here. Just as the prophets of the eighth
century B.C. left their villages and carried their "thus
sayith the Lord" far beyond the boundaries of their
home towns, and just as the Apostle Paul left his
village of Tarsus and carried the gospel of Jesus
Christ to the far corners of the Greco Roman world,
so am I compelled to carry the gospel of freedom
beyond my own home town. Like Paul, I must
constantly respond to the Macedonian call for aid.

7. August 28, 1963 - March on Washington

8. 1963 - Bombing of Birmingham Church

9. 1964 - Selma to Montgomery March

10. 1965 - Malcolm X Assassinated

11. 1965 – Watts Riots in Detroit

12. 1968 – Martin Luther King Jr. Assassinated