PRESENTATION OUTLINE
Rosa Parks
Seamstress and civil rights activist, Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat on a bus to a white man, sparking the year-long Montgomery, Alabama bus boycott on December 1, 1955. Within days, the Montgomery Improvement Association is founded to coordinate the boycott. King is elected president of the organization on December 7, 1955.
James Hood
Hood is one of the first African Americans to enroll at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa and in June 11, 1963. He was blocked from the all white schools. This became know as the "Stand in the Schoolhouse Door."
Little Rock Nine
Little Rock Nine is a group of African Americans enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas,(September 23, 1957). They were followed by the "Little Rock Crisis", they were trying to have integration.
Thurgood Marshall
On October 2, 1967 Thurgood Marshall was the first African American, U.S Supreme Court Justice in Baltimore, Maryland and civil rights advocate. He helped getting rid of the Jim Crow segregation. He also was the first nation's black justice.
Martin Luther King, Jr. (MLK)
King was an activist and leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement. Then, helped the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott and finally found the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in 1957. On August 28, 1963, Martin gave the "I Have a Dream" speech, in Washington D.C at the Civil Rights March. To try to end racism.
