Civil Rights:

African Americans Lead the Way

Background: 1896 - Separate but Equal?

1940s - NAACP Forms

1950s - Brown v. Board, Rosa Parks, Little Rock 9

Martin Luther King Jr.

Sit-In Movement

Students for a Non-

Violence Coordinating

Committee (SNCC)

Freedom Rides

1963 March On

Washington

Civil Rights Act of 1964

Freedom Summer

Voting Rights Act of

1965

Black Power and the

Black Panther Party

1896 - Separate but Equal?

Jim Crow Rules! KKK enforces!

1940s - NAACP Forms

1954 - Brown v. Board of

Education desegregates schools

& Little Rock 9 Challenge its

enforcement

Martin Luther King Jr. Becomes a

National Leader

MLK's Last Speech - 3 minutes

Sit-In Movements

Non-violent protest at work

SNCC

1961 Freedom Rides

Freedom Rides Non-violence is met with violence

1963 March on Washington

March on Washington demands

Birmingham, Alabama

As a starting point for enforcement

& a national wake up call!

Civil Rights Act of 1964

Civil Rights Act of 1964 definition: A federal law that authorized

federal action against segregation in public accommodations, public

facilities, and employment. The law was passed during a period of great

strength for the civil rights movement, and President Lyndon Johnson

persuaded many reluctant members of Congress to support the law.

Freedom Summer

Voting Rights Act of 1965

Black Power and the Black

Panther Party MLK and Malcom X Debate

Black Power and the Black

Panther Party

The Original 6 Black Panthers

Going forward…

Much of the ground work (ideals, tactics, etc.)

of the African Americans to gain civil rights

was borrowed by all other disadvantaged

groups in later decades.

Today, it’s hard to believe the images and

rhetoric because we have become a much

more equitable society, but many people still

strive to segregate (neo-Nazi groups, white

supremacist groups, etc.)