Civil Rights Museum

1. Civil Rights Museum Brittany Vercusky and Alex Schlack Period 2

2. Brown v. Board of Education • Segregation and the Board of Education interests us. • We have more questions about why separate but equal is unconstitutional. • How people aren’t equal and treated fairly makes us angry. • We would like to know why Thurgood Marshall helped in the case of Brown v. Board of Education.

3. “No states shall abridge the privileges of citizens of the United States, nor deny to any person within it’s jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.” The Fourteen Amendment The Fourteen Amendment provides equal protection for everyone.

4. “Separate but equal.” Plessy v. Ferguson Many people didn’t’ agree with the “Separate but equal” because they still separated it into black and white facilities and called it equal when it wasn’t.

5. Thurgood Marshall He served in the Supreme Court Justice from 1967 until 1991. In that time he made his greatest accomplishment when he helped win the Brown v. Board of Education case.

6. Brown v. Board of Education In this case, it tells how black children had to walk over railroad tracks and take a old bus when there is a school 5 blocks away from their house but they cannot attend there because that was a segregated school.

7. “Like a cancer, segregation destroys the morale of our citizens and disfigures our country throughout the world.” Segregation It means that segregation doesn’t just ruin one thing it can destroy the world.

8. Central High • It interested us how the school didn’t accept black people in their school. • We have more questions about the Little Rock Nine. • How the schools were segregated made us upset. • We would like to learn more about Central High and their decision.

9. “Education without Mixing” In the 1950s the white people paraded with cars to hold a protest of the integration of the schools.

10. Central High Central High was located in Little Rock, Arkansas and was one of the South's best public schools and had more than 2,000 students. But not one black child had ever attended this school until 1957.

11. “ I understood education before I understood anything else.” Melba Pattillo Melba Pattillo was a fifteen year girl who wanted to go to Central High. She was to be part of the Little Rock Nine.

12. The Little Rock Nine These are the nine brave students chosen to integrate go to Little Rock Nine High School. They were known as the Little Rock Nine.

13. Governor Orval Faubus Governor Orval Faubus was against school integration. He was against it because he believed backing up integration would hurt him against white voters, but opposing it wouldn’t hurt him at all.

14. Martin Luther King, Jr. • His life story and what he did throughout his life interested us. • We have more questions on why the people didn’t agree with his idea. • Him getting assassinated upset us. • We would like to learn more about his famous “I have a dream” speech.

15. Martin Luther This is a picture of Martin Luther King, Jr. giving his “I have a dream speech”.

16. “I have a dream” This is Martin Luther King, Jr.’s most famous speech. "I have a dream"

17. Him and His Wife This is a picture of Martin Luther King, Jr. and his wife Coretta before they got married in June 1953.

18. "We don't have to argue with anybody. We don't have to curse and go around acting bad with our words. We don't need any bricks and bottles. We don't need any Molotov cocktails. We just need to go around to these stores, and to these massive industries in our country, and say, 'God sent us by here, to say to you that you're not treating his children right.” Martin Luther’s Famous Speech

19. " We will get to the promised land" I’ve been to the mountain top He gave this speech saying, "I may not get there with you," this was the day before he was assassinated.

20. Montgomery Bus Boycott • It interested us how Rosa Parks helped stop segregation. • It upsets us how segregation was going on for so long. • We have more questions on what happened to Rosa Parks. • I would like to learn more about the different cases during that time.

21. Rosa Parks This is a picture of Rosa Parks. She refused to give up her seat on the bus so that a white man could sit on December 1, 1955.

22. Rev. Donnie Williams • “ That is a war, this is bloodshed. It meant suffering, that a fight was coming.” Rev. Donnie Williams said this. It means that segregation is hard and many people are going to be fighting because of it

23. The Montomery Advertiser This is a picture of the Montomery Advertiser which is an Alabama newspaper and it included articles from the boycott.

24. This is a picture of the guards carrying Rosa Park’s coffin at her memorial service. Rosa Park’s Memorial Service

25. Rosa Parks memorial This is a picture of a Memorial Sign of Rosa Parks. It is located at the place where she was arrested.