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Civil Rights Movement, Challenges - Coggle Diagram
Civil Rights Movement
Brown V. Board of Ed
1954 Supreme court decision
Overturns Plessy v. Ferguson
Ends segregated schools
NAACP lawyer
Martin Luther King Jr
Baptist minister from Atlanta
Coordinated nonvliolent resistance
Led Montgomery Bus Boycott
Youngest Nobel Peace Prize winner
Rosa Parks
Began the Montgomery Bus Boycott
Member of the NAACP
Called the "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
Helps protect the "Freedom Riders"
Supports desegregation as NY Senator
1963 March on Washington
Martin Luther King Jr's speech
Builds support for civil rights legislation
Shows power of non-violennt protest
Voting civil rights
Outlawed literacy tests for voting
Increases African American voters
Reaction
Resistance across the south
"White flight" from public schools to private schools
National Guard called to Little Rock High
Civil rights act of 1964
[rohibits discrimination based on race, religion, ethnicity or gender
Challenges
Elizabeth Eckford attempting to attend Little Rock High School
The Freedom Riders in 1961
Birmingham Fire Department hosing down nonviolent protestor in 1964
Civil Rights demonstrator attacked by a police dog in Alabama in 1963