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Civil Rights Movement Mind Map - Coggle Diagram
Civil Rights Movement Mind Map
Other Civil rights movements
Equal Rights Amendment
A proposed amendment that gave equals rights to all regardless of sex.
Equal Pay Act of 1963
Prohibited employers from paying workers different wages for the same work.
Gay Liberation Movement
Aimed to fight against gay discrimination
Betty Friedan
A leading figure in Women's movement protest
Civil Rights Movement 1940s and 1950s
Montgomery bus boycott.
A boycott that stoped the racial segregation of buses
Medgar Evers
The first NAACP field secretary. He was assassinated.
Desegregation of the military
Executive order 9981, by President Harry Truman abolished segregation in the US milittary.
Civil rights act of 1957 and 1960
Acts that helped black voters
NAACP movement to register voters in the south
A mission to register black voters in the south.
Brown V Board of Education
Supreme Court case ends segregation in public schools
Civil rights movement of the 1960s
Malcom X and Black Power
A civil rights activist that promoted violence against inequality. Black power was a black nationalist group that promoted black being better than whites.
Freedom Summer
A project that brought attention to the oppression of Mississippi blacks.
Black Panthers
A black nationalist group that promoted self defense against police brutality
Sit in movements
Activist sat in segregated places to protest racial segregation
Race Riots
Riots across the country fueled by the injustice of the US regarding race
March to Montgomery
A protest to bring awareness to the death of Jimmie Lee Jackson directly to the govener of Alabama
Warren Court Decisions protecting individual rights
Made decisions that protecting rights of people (brown v board of education.
The assassination of MLK Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated April 4, 1968
Youth Culture of the 1960s
Woodstock 1969
One of the largest music festivals in history
The Weathermen
A radical leftist group that was violent
Free speech Movement
A student protest that took place in colleges not allowing students to speak what they wanted
