A NEW CHANGE

MLK JR.

• March on Washington ("I have a dream" Speech)
• August 28, 1963
• Jobs and freedom
• Washington, D.C.

ROSA PARKS

• Montgomery bus boycott ( refused to move from seat)
• Dec. 1, 1955
• Resist bus segregation ("was tired of giving in")
• Montgomery, Alabama

ROBERT WILLIAMS

• Black armed guard
• Summer of 1957
• Defend local black community from racist attacks
• Monroe, Alabama

THURGOOD MARSHALL

• Brown vs. board of education.
• May 17, 1954
• Segregation in public schools unconstitutional
• Topeka, Kansas

STOKELY CARMICHAEL

• "Black power speech"
• April 19, 1967
• "The coming together of black people to fight for their liberation by any means necessary"
• Seattle, Washington.