Famous Figures
Refused to give up her seat
Rosa Parks
First successful protest of the Civil Rights Movement
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Discriminatory Laws
Jim Crow Laws
Promoted self defense and cultural pride
Black Power
Organized armed community patrols
Black Panthers
First black elementary school student in an integrated southern school
Ruby Bridges
Police attacked protestors on a bridge
"Bloody Sunday"
Ended school segregation
Brown v. Board
Refusing to fight back
Non Violence
Eventually Assassinated Malcolm X
Nation of Islam
Author of "Letter from Birmingham Jail"
Martin Luther King Jr.
March on Washington
Passed 1965: right to vote
Voting Rights Act
Peacefully breaking unjust laws
Civil Disobedience
MLK was the first president:
SCLC (Southern Christian Leadership Conference)
Gave the speech: "The Ballot or the Bullet"
Malcolm X
Showed the world police brutality against protestors
Birmingham Campaign
Passed 1964 after "I have a dream speech"
Civil Rights Act
Refusing to buy
Boycott
First black civil rights organization
NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People)
Died in Money, Mississippi
Emmett Till
54 mile march for voting rights
Selma to Montgomery
Created "separate but equal" precedent
Plessy v. Ferguson
Staying where you are not allowed
Sit ins
Radical student led organization
SNCC (Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee)