The Civil Right Movement

A. Brown v. Board of Education (1954) -

This shows the racial integration in schools

This was a supreme court ordering that
 banned segregation in public schools.

B.    The 1955-1956 Montgomery Bus Boycott

This was a protest against the racial segregation on busses. This started on

Rosa parks confidence started the Bus boycott

December 1,1955 when Rosa Parks was arrested for not giving her seat up to a white man and ended on December 20,1956 when the Supreme court deemed it unconstitutional to segregate busses.



C.    The 1957-1958 Little Rock School Crisis
This was when the Little Rock desegregated their

This girl was a part of the Little Rock nine

school system Black students were initially not allowed to attend that school. The students were called the "Little Rock nine" On September 4,1957
Governor Orval Faubus deployed the Arkansas
 National Guard to prevent the black
students from entering.










These are few of those who
 sat in the white-only restaurants



D.    The sit-ins and freedom rides of the early 1960s.
 African American civilians went to all white facilities
and went and sat there and refused to move. Some
went to white-only lunch counters and refused to leave
until they were given food. Freedom rides were rides
 into the south of integrated buses.








E.    The 1963 civil rights protest in Birmingham
In Alabama, a city where public facilities were
 separated for blacks and whites.
 King intended to force the desegregation 

King is leading the protest in Birmingham.

of lunch counters in downtown shops
by a non-violent protest.






People are marching for freedom.

F. The 1963 March on Washington
 This march was to promote civil rights. The
 negroes wanted equal rights and wanted to stop segregation.