The Civil Rights Movement

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The Civil Rights Movement

• Michelle Roumelis
• Baileigh Lightsey
• Dpd 4/22/08

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Summary

• Many civil rights protests , events ,and activity
  from civil rights activists arose in the 1960s
  including peaceful protests such as sit-ins
  ,violent protests such as fights against police
  officers and violent riots in the Watts section
  of Los Angeles. These events led up to the
  assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. on April
  4, 1968.

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The civil rights movement included these events

• The Montgomery Bus boycott
• Sit-ins
• Freedom rides
• Birmingham
• The March on Washington
• Mississippi and Freedom Summer
• Selma

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Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King

• Rosa Parks started of the bus boycott by refusing
  to give up her seat to a white man. She later was
  arrested.

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Effect the Civil Rights Movement had on the U.S

• Laws were passed that provided equal
  opportunities for people in areas such a as
  employment ,education, and service. it became
  illegal to segregate. Blacks and Whites began
  living together which changed the culture of
  America drastically.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

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Quiz Questions
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