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What was the decision in Plessy v. Ferguson?

What was the decision in Plessy v. Ferguson? What was the decision in Brown v. Board of Education?. People of Civil Rights Movement. Key Points. During the Civil Rights movement there were many people who were involved in fighting for African American Rights.

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What was the decision in Plessy v. Ferguson?

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  1. What was the decision in Plessy v. Ferguson? • What was the decision in Brown v. Board of Education?

  2. People of Civil Rights Movement

  3. Key Points • During the Civil Rights movement there were many people who were involved in fighting for African American Rights. • Many of these people were murdered or assassinated because of the work they were doing. • Without the famous and less famous people African Americans and many other people would not have the equal rights they enjoy today.

  4. Research • Martin Luther King • Rosa Parks • Malcolm X • Medgar Evers • Emmett Till • Ralph Abernathy

  5. Martin Luther King • Led the civil rights movement in the United States • Organized the SCLC protests against segregation • Assassinated on April 4, 1968

  6. Rosa Parks • Refused to give up her seat to a white man on a bus • She was arrested, jailed, and fined • Her actions led to the Montgomery Bus Boycotts

  7. Malcolm X • Dropped out of school and turned to crime • Joined the Nation of Islam in jail • Believed blacks were superior • Wanted a separate country for African-Americans • Believed in violence for change • Assassinated on February 21, 1965

  8. Medgar Evers • Joined the NAACP to fight for Civil rights • Assassinated June 12, 1963 • White segregationist was tried three times for the murder and was finally convicted in 1994

  9. Emmett Till • 14 year old boy killed for flirting with a white girl • He was beaten, had his eye gouged out and shot through the head and then dumped in a river • His funeral was open casket to show people the brutality

  10. WARNING THE NEXT SLIDE IS GRAPHIC

  11. Ralph Abernathy • Worked with MLK • Helped organized the Montgomery Bus Boycott • Took over the SCLC after MLK was assassinated

  12. Besides Martin Luther King, name one figure of the civil rights movement and what he or she did.

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