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The Civil Rights Movement

The Civil Rights Movement. Civil Rights Movement Timeline. 1948, July 26: Truman signs Executive Order 9981 1954, May 17: The Supreme Court agreed that segregation in public schools are wrong.

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The Civil Rights Movement

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  1. The Civil Rights Movement

  2. Civil Rights Movement Timeline • 1948, July 26: Truman signs Executive Order 9981 • 1954, May 17: The Supreme Court agreed that segregation in public schools are wrong. • 1955, August: Emmett Till was kidnapped, beaten up badly, shot, and was put in the Tallahatchie River for whistling at a white woman.

  3. 1955, December 1: Rosa Parks refuses to giver her seat up to a white man and gets arrested. • 1957, January-February: Martin Luther King, Charles K. Steele, and Fred L. Shuttlesworth made the Southern Christian Leadership. • 1957, September: President Eisenhower sends troops to and the National Guard to come between disputing on behalf of the students, who will be known as the Little Rock Nine. • =

  4. 1960, February 1: Four black students begin a sit-in at a segregated Woolworth’s counter, this event triggers a lot of many nonviolent protest throughout the South. • 1960, April: The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee provided young blacks with a place in the movement. • 1961, May 4: Students begin taking bus trips through the South to experiment new laws, which prohibits segregation in interstate travel facilities, which include bus and railway stations.

  5. 1963, April 16: Martin Luther King is arrested and jailed. • 1964, January 23: the 24th amendment abolishes poll taxes. • 1964, July 2: President Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act 1964, the most sweeping civil rights legislation. • 1965, August 10: Congress Passes the Voting Rights Act, making it less difficult for black people to register to vote.

  6. 1988, March 22: Congress passes the Civil Rights Restoration Act, which makes the nondiscrimination laws increase. • 1991, November 22: After several years of debate, vetoes, and threatening vetoes, President Bush turned himself around and signed the Civil Rights Act of 1991.

  7. Biography of Rosa Parks

  8. was born in February 13,1913 • was homeschooled until she was 11 • In August 20, 1915 her brother was born • In 1917 the family moved to Pine Level, Alabama • enrolled in Montgomery Industrial School for Girls • The Klu Klux Klan marched down her street in Pine Level

  9. married Raymond parks in 1932 • was elected secretary of the Civil Rights Movement in December 1943 • though was greatly honored in the later years, has suffered a lot in order to get the honor; lost her job as a seamstress and moved in order to get a job

  10. Respect Plan • We could treat people fairly and with respect • Include people and to not leave anyone out just because they are different • Don’t call anyone names • Care and listen to peoples’ problems. • Don’t start gossips or rumors that may harm someone

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