The Civil Rights Movement Pathway to the Dreamt Equality

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The Civil Rights Movement Pathway to the Dreamt
Equality

• By
• Peter Vang
• Jonathan Joniggs
• Jordan Corla Reyes

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US History Overview (1900s)

• Roaring 20s 1920-1929
• Great Depression 1929-1933
• US Involvement in WWII 1941-1945
• Cold War 1945-1990
• CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT 1954-1968

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What is the Civil Rights movement?

• A movement in the United States beginning in the
  1950s to 1960s led primarily by Blacks in an
  effort to establish the civil rights of
  individual Black citizens especially in the
  Southern States

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• 1954 - Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka
• 1955 - Montgomery Bus Boycott
• 1960 - Greensboro Sit-in and the Sit-in movement
• 1961 - Freedom Riders
• 1963 - Birmingham and the March on Washington
• 1964 - Freedom Sumer
• 1965 - Selma to Montgomery March
• 1965 - Voting Rights Act
• 1968 - Assassination of Martin Luther King

Timeline of Events
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Key Organizations

• CORE (Congress of Racial Equality)
• NAACP (National Association for the Advancement
  of Colored People)
• SNCC (Student Non-violent Coordinating Council)
• SCLC (Southern Christian Leadership Conference)

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Key People

• Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Rosa Parks
• Thurgood Marshall
• Malcolm X

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Rosa Parks

• Martin Luther King, Jr.

Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his famous "I Have a
Dream" speech. He quickly became the de facto
leader of the civil rights movement and led the
Montgomery Bus Boycott. He was later assassinated
on April 4th 1968.
Rosa Parks was arrested for sitting in the wrong
part of the bus. She also helped lead the
Montgomery bus Boycott.
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Thurgood Marshall
His argument against the "separate but equal"
doctrine achieved its greatest impact handed down
in Brown v. Board of Topeka (1954). He was the
first black to sit in the high court.

• Malcolm X

Muslim minister, human rights activist, black
nationalist and founder of the Organization of
Afro-American Unity. He was later assassinated in
1965 while delivering a speech
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Impact

• It established that discrimination was unjust and
  would no longer be tolerated
• The efforts of the Civil Rights Movement ended
  segregation publicly and legally.
• The era redesigned the nation's social system.
• The efforts to help a specific group united many
  citizens to achieve a common goal.
• People, regardless of race, fought together for
  the just treatment of African Americans.

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• External References
• http//www.usm.edu/crdp/html/cd/groups.htm
• http//www.history.com/topics/civil-rights-movemen
  t-history
• http//www.history.com/topics/civil-rights-movemen
  tt
• http//library.thinkquest.org/J0112391/civil_right
  s_leaders.htm
• http//www.infoplease.com/spot/bhmheroes1.html
• http//www.econ.yale.edu/seminars/echist/eh06/wrig
  ht-061206.pdf
• http//www.socialistalternative.org/literature/pan
  ther/ch3.html
• http//www.cnn.com/EVENTS/1997/mlk/links.html