The document summarizes key events in the civil rights movement in the United States between 1954-1960. It describes Brown vs Board of Education in 1954 which ruled that school segregation was unconstitutional; the Montgomery Bus Boycott led by Martin Luther King Jr. in 1955-1956; the murder of Emmett Till in Mississippi in 1955; the Little Rock Nine's desegregation of Little Rock High School in 1957 despite resistance from the governor; and the Greensboro Sit-Ins starting in 1960 as important early victories and acts of protest against racial segregation and discrimination.

3. BLACK CLASSROOM WHITE CLASSROOM

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”

6. Thurgood Marshall

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

11.  Roy Bryant + J. W. Milam interviewed by Look
magazine

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!!

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