CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT

EMMETT TILL MURDER

• Emmett Till
• He whistled at a white lady and was brutally beaten, kidnapped, shot, and dumped in a river.
• August 27, 1955
• He became a main cause of the civil rights movement
• Money, Mississippi

ROSA PARKS

• Rosa Louise McCauley Parks
• Refused to give up her seat on the bus to a white man
• December 1, 1955
• She wanted integration on the buses, she was tired of giving in
• Montgomery, Alabama

MLK'S SPEECH

• Martin Luther King Jr.
• MLK makes a speech about how the boycotts must continue
• December 4, 1955
• They were tired of being kicked around and being treated like dirt
• Montgomery, Alabama

LITTLE ROCK NINE

• Ernest Green, Elizabeth Eckford, Jefferson Thomas, Terrence Roberts,Carlotta Walls LaNier, Minnijean Brown, Gloria Ray Karlmark, Thelma Mothershed, and Melba Pattillo Beals.
• The federal government uses the military to uphold African Americans' rights, as they bring 9 black kids to an all white school to desegregate a school in Little Rock, Arkansas.
• August 31, 1957

LITTLE ROCK NINE PART 2

• They were fighting for the desegregation of schools, which began in Little Rock.
• Little Rock, Arkansas

BIRMINGHAM CHURCH BOMBING

• Denise McNair, Carole Robertson, Addie Mae Collins, Cynthia Wesley
• There was a bombing at an all black church before the first service and 4 girls were killed
• September 14, 1963
• Proof from MLK's side that things needed to change
• Birmingham, Alabama

THURGOOD MARSHALL JOINS THE COURT

• Thurgood Marshall
• Thurgood Marshall joins the Supreme Court and is the first African American man to do it
• June 12, 1957
• He was the first ever African American to join the Supreme court
• Washington, D.C.