The Civil Rights Movement

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The Civil Rights Movement

• By Cassandra Spulak
• and
• Janessa Ellis
• History-4

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Freedom Riders

• Rosa Parks
• Refused to give up her seat on the bus
• Was arrested
• Freedom Riders
• Boycotted buses and started other riots in revolt
  against racist treatment

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Martin Luther King Jr.

• Strong Civil Rights leader
• Led nonviolent revolts
• Was assassinated for his beliefs and efforts

• His assassination proved that some were against
  equal civil rights

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Malcolm X

• Participant in the movement
• Lead violent revolts against racist acts
• Was jailed and eventually assassinated for his
  efforts
• His assassination also proved that some couldnt
  accept the reality of a need for equality

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George C. Wallis

• Was against changing the way things were
• Wanted to keep things the same because the
  forefathers wanted them that way

• Famous speech against the movement in 1964
• The Civil Rights Movement Fraud, Shame, and
  Hoax

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Revolts

• Nonviolent
• Boycotting against buses (Freedom Riders)
• Boycotts against segregated public places
• Books, articles, ect.
• Letters from Birmingham Jail (King)
• Speeches
• I Have a Dream (King)

• Violent
• Race riots
• Sit ins (turned violent)
• Violent marches
• Turned violent because the American military was
  called in to put a stop to revolts

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Cases

• Brown v. Board of Education Topeka, Kans.
• Agreed that segregation in schools was
  unconstitutional
• Loving v. Virginia
• Agreed that prohibiting interracial marriage was
  unconstitutional
• Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg County Board of
  Education
• Allowed integration of school, although unwelcome
  and violently disagreed with

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Worldwide Opinions

• Many countries saw America as highly racist and
  didnt agree with the lack of equal rights
• American and only a select few other countries
  have capital punishment
• Also shows that most countries didnt see eye to
  eye with America at the time

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Bibliography

• Work Cited
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