PRESENTATION OUTLINE
Malcom X
Well known African American radical. He was born in 1925.
James Mererdith and ole miss:
He was born on June 25th 1933. He was an African American Air Force veteran that attempted to enroll at "ole miss" but it was segregated.
CORE:
Congress of racial equality. It was an civil rights organization that was founded in 1942.
Brown v. Board of education:
Supreme Court case,court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for blacks and white students to be unconstitutional. Started in 1954.
Montgomery Bus Boycott:
Started in 1955. Protest by African Americans. Political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial
Segregation in the bus system.
Little Rock Nine:
Nine African American students involved in the desegregation of the Little Rock Central High School. This started in 1957.
Civil Rights Act of 1957:
Started in 1957.Landmark piece of civil rights legislation in the United States that outlawed discrimination based on race,color,religion,sex,national origin.
SCLC:
Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Started on January 10,1957. African American civil rights organization. Advocated nonviolent resistance to fight injustice. This organization was made up largely of African-American ministers.
Greensboro sit-in:
Series of nonviolent protests in Greensboro, North Carolina in 1960, which led to the Woolworth department store chain removing its policy of racial segregation in southern United States.
SNCC:
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, grass roots movement of young civil rights activists founded in 1960.
Freedom Rides:
Civil Rights Activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern states in 1961.
Protest in Birmingham, AL:
Started in the early 1963, movement organization by SCLC to bring attention to the integration efforts of African American high school students got hit by high-pressure water jet from a firehouse on there walk to school.
March on Washington:
August 28,1963. Intended to rouse support for a Civil Rights Bill.
Civil Rights Act of 1964:
Started in 1964, outlawed discrimination in public places and employment based on race,religion, or national origin.
Freedom Summer:
Started in 1964, was an effort to register African American voters in Mississippi.
March on Selma:
In the early 1965, Martin Luther king jr and the SCLC organized a major campaign in Selma, Alabama to pressure the Federal Government to enact voting rights legislation.
Black Panthers:
Organization of young militant African Americans founded in 1966.
Assassination of MLK:
The year of the assassination was in 1968. This marked an important turning point, civil rights movement made a significant gain.
Olympic Protest-Tommie Smith and John Carlow:
During the medal ceremony at the 1968 Summer Olympics, African American athletes Tommie Smith and John Carlow both each raised a black-gloved fist through the whole Star-Spangled Banner.
Jackie Robinson:
He was an African American Major League Baseball player. He died October 24,1972.
