Civil-rights movement in the USA

CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENTS IN THE USA

A fight for equality and justice

SUMMARY :

1) Introduction 2) Historical context 3) Different events 4) Important people

Introduction

This movement , expanding from the mid-1950s to the late 1960s, wanted the right to vote, access to education, employment and housing throughout the country for the black population.

• Definition

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Historical context

Before the 1950s, black people were discriminated against, rejected and sometimes persecuted.

They did not have the same rights as white people and were excluded from society such as on the bus or in public places.

Different events

Greensboro sit-ins

Civil Rights Act

Voting Rights Act

March on Washington

Bus Boycott

1965

1964

1960

1963

1955

1963

1965

1961

1957

Birmingham riots

March from Selma to Montgomery

Little Rock Integration

Freedom Rides

Important people

ROSA PARKS

MARTIN LUTHER KING

BARACK OBAMA

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MARTIN LUTHER KING

He organized actions to defend voting rights, desegregation and employment for ethnic minorities. For example he helped Rosa Parks with the bus boycott.

ROSA PARKS

the "mother of the civil rights movement" is a black woman known for having launched a boycott campaign against a bus company which forced her to leave her seat because of her skin color in 1955

BARACK OBAMA

He is the first Afroamerican president of the United States in 2009. So, people's opinion have changed with time.