2. Equality for All
Thurgood Marshall, attorney for the NAACP, represented Brown vs Board of
Education
Attorney for the Brown Family
This desegregated the public schools
3. Montgomery Bus Boycott
Rosa Parks
December 1, 1955
Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on the city bus to a white man
Charged with a crime
Led to the Birmingham Bus Boycott
Martin Luther King Jr. was the organizer over the Birmingham Bus Boycott
The bus system was soon desegregated
This was effecting all businesses economically
4. Lunch Counter Sit Ins
Greensboro, North Carolina
Result of a Fisk University student-Diane Nash
Diane Nash found it difficult to adjust to the Jim Crow etiquette
Blacks could spend money at retail stores, but they could not sit at the lunch
counters to eat or relax
5. The Fight to Vote
1964 was the start of allowing African Americans the right to vote
The voting rights act was passed in 1965, and signed by President Lyndon B.
Johnson
The passage of this act increased registered African American voters to vote
6. 16th Street Baptist Church Bombing
September 1963
Birmingham Alabama
Four black girls ages 11-14 were killed at their church from an unprovoked
racially motivated act of violence
Shook the nation heavily
7. March on Washington Movement
August 28, 1963
For jobs and freedom
Washington D.C.
250,000 people in attendance
Wide television coverage
Represented different non violent civil rights groups fighting for equality
Speaker was Martin Luther King, Jr.
Famous I Have A Dream speech