The Civil Rights Movement: We Shall Overcome

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The Civil Rights MovementWe Shall Overcome

• By Adrienne McLeese

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Segregation and the Civil Rights Movement

• What is segregation?
• Segregation was the separation of blacks and
  whites due to the fact that blacks were
  believed to be inferior to whites.
• What was the Civil Rights Movement?
• A period in the 1950s and 1960s when blacks
  began to fight for their freedom.

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The Montgomery Bus Boycott

• December 1, 1955 Rosa Parks was arrested after
  refusing to give up her bus seat.
• December 5, 1955 the bus boycott began.
  Boycotters carpooled, biked or walked for 381
  days instead of riding the buses.
• The boycott ended December 20, 1956 when the
  Supreme Court ruled that bus segregation was
  illegal.

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The Greensboro Fourclick on above title for
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• February 1, 1960
• There was a sit-in at Woolworths in Greensboro,
  North Carolina.
• It continued for five months until the lunch
  counter was desegregated.

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Freedom Riders

• The Riders went on bus trips in protest of their
  freedom.
• The Riders disobeyed segregation laws on the
  trip.
• Often times the riders were met by violence.

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March On Washington(click on above title to see
I Have a Dream speech

• August 28, 1963
• 250,000 people of various races, religions and
  economic status gathered at the Lincoln Memorial
• The highlight of the event was Dr. Martin Luther
  King Jr.s I Have a Dream speech.

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Bloody Sunday

• March 7, 1965
• A peaceful march ended when marchers were met by
  the sheriff and state troopers.
• Marchers were clubbed, whipped and choked with
  tear gas.

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Martin Luther King Jr.

• He was a significant figure in the Civil Rights
  Movement.
• He believed in peaceful protests.
• He was arrested numerous times for what he
  believed in.
• In 1964 he received the Nobel peace prize.

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Rosa Parks

• She is considered the mother of the Civil Rights
  Movement.
• She challenged segregation laws by refusing to
  give up her bus seat to a white man for which she
  was arrested.

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Other Important People
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How the Movement effected us

• How times have improved
• Blacks can now vote
• Public places have become desegregated (for
  example hotels, restaurants and stores)
• But there is still
• some segregated neighborhoods, along with a gap
  in health, education and economics
• some racism in the world

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Books to Read

• If you lived at the time of Martin Luther King
• The Montgomery Bus Boycott
• The March On Washington
• The Freedom Riders