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Civil Rights Movement

Civil Rights Movement. Marisa R., Shikina T., Natasha P., Crystal B. Background. Movement to ensure the equality of African Americans Deserved the basic privileges and rights of U.S. citizen. Jim Cr ow’ s Law.

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Civil Rights Movement

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  1. Civil Rights Movement Marisa R., Shikina T., Natasha P., Crystal B.

  2. Background Movement to ensure the equality of African Americans Deserved the basic privileges and rights of U.S. citizen

  3. Jim Crow’sLaw Black people were treated rather unfairly and were separated from the white people. White people treated the black people with less respect.

  4. Causes of Segregation Defined as a struggle against racial segregation

  5. Rosa Parks December 1, 1995 Parks was arrested on charges of disorderly conduct and violating local ordinance December 5,1955

  6. Martin Luther King Led the boycott in 1955 Helped form Southern Christian Leadership Conference in 1957 Leader of the entire Civil Rights Movement in 1960

  7. Thurgood Marshall Lawyer After graduating he started his work First African American justice of the Supreme Court 1954

  8. The Little Rock Nine 3 years after Brown v. Board of Education case Minnijean Brown, Terrance Roberts, Elizabeth Eckford, Ernest Green, Thelma Mothershed, Melba Patillo, Gloria Ray, Jefferson Thomas, and Carlotta Walls September 4, 1957 September 23, 1957

  9. Watts Riot

  10. Works Cited • "Little Rock School Desegregation (1957)" Standford.edu. 3 September 2014 • "Little Rock Nine Foundation" littlerock9.com 3 September 2014 • Grimm, Laura "Thurgood Marshal Biography" biography.com 3 September 2014 • History.com Staff "Thurgood Marshall" History.com 3 September 2014 • "Martin Luther King Jr. Contributions" castle.eiu.edu 3 September 2014 • "Rosa Parks' contribution to civil rights, history lives on" herald-dispatch.com 3 September 2014 • Brunner, Borgna "Heroes of the Civil Rights Movement" infoplease.com 3 September 2014 • Jim Crow Museum “What was Jim Crow?” ferris.edu September 2000 • “Civil Rights Movement: Desegregation” shmoop.com 2014 • Civil Rights Digital Library “Watts Riot” crdl.usg.edu November 20, 2013

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