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Civil Rights Movement - Coggle Diagram
Civil Rights Movement
The Jim Crow Era
after reconstruction
State and local laws enforced racial segregation in the South
Brown V. Board of Education
1954 Supreme Court decision
Resistance
"white flight"
public to private
Thurgood Marshall leads defense
Overturns Plessy v. Ferguson
Segregated schools end
Leaders
Martin Luther King Jr.
Baptist minister from Atlanta
Coordinated nonviolent resistance
Led Montgomery Bus Boycott
Youngest Nobel Peace Prize winner
Rosa Parks
Began the Montgomery Bus Boycott
Member of the NAACP
"First Lady of the Civil Rights Movement"
Malcom X
Fierce advocate for African Americans
Member of Nation of Islam but later left
Disagreed with MLK’s non-violent strategy for equality
Robert F. Kennedy
US Attorney General
Helps protect the “Freedom Riders”
Supports desegregation as NY Senator
Assassinated in 1968 as he began campaign for presidency
Challenges
Elizabeth Eckford attempting to attend Little Rock High School
1960
Sit in at Woolworth’s in Greensboro, NC
1961
The Freedom Writers
1964
Birmingham Fire Department hosing down nonviolent protestors
1963
Civil rights demonstrator attacked by a police dog in Alabama
Media
1976
The Soiling of Old Glory
Events
1963 March on Washington
1964Civil Rights Act
1965 Voting Rights
1968 Summer Olympics