The Civil Rights Movement - 4 views
Find information on the following topics: * Opposition to Plessy v. Ferguson Case during the Civil Rights Movement. * Brown v. Board of Education * Martin Luther King, Jr. (passive resistance again...
SNCC-Events: Freedom Rides - 4 views
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Danielle && alexis Judon && evans on 16 Apr 12During the Freedom Rides, SNCC members rode buses through the deep southern states where discrimination and segregation were most prominent. The concept originated in the 1940's with CORE, a non-violent group out of Chicago trying to end racial discrimination.
Rosa Louise Parks Biography - 4 views
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Rosa Louise Parks was nationally recognized as the "mother of the modern day civil rights movement" in America. Her refusal to surrender her seat to a white male passenger on a Montgomery, Alabama bus, December 1, 1955, triggered a wave of protest December 5, 1955 that reverberated throughout the United States.
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Rosa Louise Parks was nationally recognized as the "mother of the modern day civil rights movement" in America. Her refusal to surrender her seat to a white male passenger on a Montgomery, Alabama bus, December 1, 1955, triggered a wave of protest December 5, 1955 that reverberated throughout the United States. -
Rosa Louise Parks was nationally recognized as the "mother of the modern day civil rights movement" in America. Her refusal to surrender her seat to a white male passenger on a Montgomery, Alabama bus, December 1, 1955, triggered a wave of protest December 5, 1955 that reverberated throughout the United States.
Civil Rights Act of 1964 - 3 views
To enforce the constitutional right to vote, to confer jurisdiction upon the district courts of the United States to provide injunctive relief against discrimination in public accommodations, to au...
Martin Luther King Jr. - 3 views
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Born: January 15, 1929Died: April 4, 1968 Martin Luther King Jr. was the most important voice of the American civil rights movement, which worked for equal rights for all. He was famous for using nonviolent resistance to overcome injustice, and he never got tired of trying to end segregation laws (laws that prevented blacks from entering certain places, such as restaurants, hotels, and public schools). - ...2 more comments...
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Born: January 15, 1929Died: April 4, 1968 Martin Luther King Jr. was the most important voice of the American civil rights movement, which worked for equal rights for all. He was famous for using nonviolent resistance to overcome injustice, and he never got tired of trying to end segregation laws (laws that prevented blacks from entering certain places, such as restaurants, hotels, and public schools).
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Born: January 15, 1929Died: April 4, 1968 Martin Luther King Jr. was the most important voice of the American civil rights movement, which worked for equal rights for all. He was famous for using nonviolent resistance to overcome injustice, and he never got tired of trying to end segregation laws (laws that prevented blacks from entering certain places, such as restaurants, hotels, and public schools).
Rosa Parks Was Arrested for Civil Disobedience - 3 views
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Rosa Parks Was Arrested for Civil Disobedience December 1, 1955 Rosa Parks stood up for what she believed, or rather, sat down for what she believed. On the evening of December 1, 1955, Parks, an African American, was tired after a long day of work and decided to take a seat on the bus on her ride home.
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Rosa Parks Was Arrested for Civil Disobedience December 1, 1955 Rosa Parks stood up for what she believed, or rather, sat down for what she believed. On the evening of December 1, 1955, Parks, an African American, was tired after a long day of work and decided to take a seat on the bus on her ride home. -
Rosa Parks Was Arrested for Civil Disobedience December 1, 1955 Rosa Parks stood up for what she believed, or rather, sat down for what she believed. On the evening of December 1, 1955, Parks, an African American, was tired after a long day of work and decided to take a seat on the bus on her ride home.
Bus Boycott in Alabama - 2 views
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On Dec 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, Rosa Parks, an African-American, refused to give up her seat on the bus to a white passenger, as local law required. She was arrested. A few days later the black community in Montgomery began a bus boycott. What's a boycott?
Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott [ushistory.org] - 2 views
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Rosa Parks rode at the front of a Montgomery, Alabama, bus on the day the Supreme Court's ban on segregation of the city's buses took effect. A year earlier, she had been arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a bus.
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Rosa Parks rode at the front of a Montgomery, Alabama, bus on the day the Supreme Court's ban on segregation of the city's buses took effect. A year earlier, she had been arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a bus. -
Rosa Parks rode at the front of a Montgomery, Alabama, bus on the day the Supreme Court's ban on segregation of the city's buses took effect. A year earlier, she had been arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a bus.
Civil Rights Act of 1964 - 2 views
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In an 11 June 1963 speech broadcast live on national television and radio, President John F. Kennedy unveiled plans to pursue a comprehensive civil rights bill in Congress, stating, ''this nation, for all its hopes and all its boasts, will not be fully free until all its citizens are free'' (''President Kennedy's Radio-TV Address,'' 970).
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In an 11 June 1963 speech broadcast live on national television and radio, President John F. Kennedy unveiled plans to pursue a comprehensive civil rights bill in Congress, stating, ''this nation, for all its hopes and all its boasts, will not be fully free until all its citizens are free'' (''President Kennedy's Radio-TV Address,'' 970).
Civil Rights:Law Library of Congress - 2 views
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Civil Rights Civil rights activist Bayard Rustin. Ed Ford, photographer, 1964. Prints and Photographs Division. LC-USZ62-118982 (b&w film copy neg). bibliographic record The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is generally perceived as having granted women more freedom in the workplace and a right to expect equal treatment.
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Civil Rights Civil rights activist Bayard Rustin. Ed Ford, photographer, 1964. Prints and Photographs Division. LC-USZ62-118982 (b&w film copy neg). bibliographic record The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is generally perceived as having granted women more freedom in the workplace and a right to expect equal treatment.
On This Day: Supreme Court Outlaws Bus Segregation - 2 views
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The city of Montgomery, Ala., like many Southern cities, had laws enforcing racial segregation in many public places. The Montgomery bus system forced blacks to sit at the back of the bus and, if all the seats were taken, give up their seats to whites.
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The city of Montgomery, Ala., like many Southern cities, had laws enforcing racial segregation in many public places. The Montgomery bus system forced blacks to sit at the back of the bus and, if all the seats were taken, give up their seats to whites.
On This Day: Martin Luther King Jr. Delivers "I Have a Dream" Speech - 2 views
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In 1963, 100 years after the Emancipation Proclamation, Negro American Labor Counsel leader A. Philip Randolph, who in 1941 had planned a march in Washington to protest the exclusion of blacks from national defense jobs, organized a march along with leaders of the most prominent civil rights organizations: Jim Farmer (CORE), Martin Luther King (SCLC), John Lewis (SNCC), Roy Wilkens (NAACP), and Whitney Young (Urban League).
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In 1963, 100 years after the Emancipation Proclamation, Negro American Labor Counsel leader A. Philip Randolph, who in 1941 had planned a march in Washington to protest the exclusion of blacks from national defense jobs, organized a march along with leaders of the most prominent civil rights organizations: Jim Farmer (CORE), Martin Luther King (SCLC), John Lewis (SNCC), Roy Wilkens (NAACP), and Whitney Young (Urban League).
Brown v. Board of Education Online Archive - 1 views
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Welcome to the University of Michigan Library's Brown v. Board of Education Digital Archive. This archive contains documents and images which chronicle events surrounding this historically significant case up to the present.
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Welcome to the University of Michigan Library's Brown v. Board of Education Digital Archive. This archive contains documents and images which chronicle events surrounding this historically significant case up to the present. -
Welcome to the University of Michigan Library's Brown v. Board of Education Digital Archive. This archive contains documents and images which chronicle events surrounding this historically significant case up to the present.
Martin Luther King Jr., Civil Rights Leader - 1 views
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Although King was already an executive member of the NAACP, his leadership role in the fight for equality in the American South occurred seemingly by chance. Picked to host a meeting to support an African American woman, Rosa Parks, who had been arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a bus, King's church was chosen not for the young pastor's words or deeds, but because it was located closest to downtown.
Martin Luther King : Biography - 1 views
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Over the next few months King read several books on the ideas of Gandhi, and eventually became convinced that the same methods could be employed by blacks to obtain civil rights in America. He was particularly struck by Gandhi's words: "Through our pain we will make them see their injustice".
I Have A Dream Speech - Martin Luther King Speeches - 1 views
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The Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Public Domain Resource Site Martin Luther King's Address at March on Washington August 28, 1963. Washington, D.C. "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character." -
The Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Public Domain Resource Site Martin Luther King's Address at March on Washington August 28, 1963. Washington, D.C. "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character."
Sit-ins: Greensboro, N.C. - 1 views
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Sit-ins: Greensboro, N.C. Background: On February 1, 1960 four North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College students entered the F. W. Woolworth Co. department store in Greensboro, North Carolina and staged a sit-in at the store's segregated lunch counter. Upon taking their seats at the "whites-only" lunch counter, Ezell A.
Congress: The Basics > Lawmaking [Resources] > Voting Rights Act of 1965 - 1 views
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CongressLink is a resource for teachers that provides information about the U.S. Congress -- how it works, its members and leaders, and the public policies it produces. The site also hosts lesson plans and reference and historical materials related to congressional topics. -
CongressLink is a resource for teachers that provides information about the U.S. Congress -- how it works, its members and leaders, and the public policies it produces. The site also hosts lesson plans and reference and historical materials related to congressional topics.
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CongressLink is a resource for teachers that provides information about the U.S. Congress -- how it works, its members and leaders, and the public policies it produces. The site also hosts lesson plans and reference and historical materials related to congressional topics.
Our Documents - Voting Rights Act (1965) - 1 views
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This act was signed into law on August 6, 1965, by President Lyndon Johnson. It outlawed the discriminatory voting practices adopted in many southern states after the Civil War, including literacy tests as a prerequisite to voting. This "act to enforce the fifteenth amendment to the Constitution" was signed into law 95 years after the amendment was ratified.
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This act was signed into law on August 6, 1965, by President Lyndon Johnson. It outlawed the discriminatory voting practices adopted in many southern states after the Civil War, including literacy tests as a prerequisite to voting. This "act to enforce the fifteenth amendment to the Constitution" was signed into law 95 years after the amendment was ratified.
Teachers' Domain: Freedom Riders - 1 views
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Learn about the Freedom Riders, a courageous band of African American and white civil rights activists who in 1961 rode together on buses throughout the American South to challenge segregation. These video segments document the events and accomplishments of the Freedom Rides, and introduce you to the real human stories of those who helped change our history.