Civil Rights Movement Museum

Isla Mungovan & Gabriella Torres

Civil Rights Movement Museum

Presentation

Malcolm X talked about how he would get to desegregation by any means necessary

The Black Panthers belived that nonviolent protests couldn't truly liberate black Americans or give them the power of their own lives

In the 1960s Malcolm X promoted useing violence to get more rights

Room 1: Malcolm X

Black Power Movment

The Monday after Rosa's arrest, the busses were empty. The boycott was working.

The Montgomery bus boycott was a 13-month mass protest that ended with the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that segregation on public buses is unconstitutional. This is the bus Rosa Parks rode on when she was arrested.

Rosa Parks was an African-American woman who refused to give her bus seat to a white man. This event launched the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Rosa was arrested on December 1st, 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama. Below is a picture of her mugshot when she got arrested.

Room 2: Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott

Three years earlier, following the Supreme Court ruling, the Little Rock school board pledged to voluntarily desegregate its schools.This happened to push equality and education and to end segregation.

Nine bright ordinary teenagers were chosen to be the first African-Americans to integrate Little Rock Central High School. This is a picture of the students entering the school.

Minnijean Brown, Terrance Roberts, Elizabeth Eckford, Ernest Green, Thelma Mothershed, Melba Patillo, Gloria Ray, Jefferson Thomas, and Carlotta Walls were the nine students chosen.

Room 3: The Little Rock Nine

MLK devoted his life to serving justice and ending segregation. He believed that peaceful protest would help the country reach desegeration

During MLK's speech thousands of people attended

In this video MLK talks about his famous ¨I Have a Dream ¨ speech where he talks about how he dreams that his kids will not be judged by the color of his skin but by the content of their character

Room 4: March On Washington ¨I Have A Dream¨

This is the monument of MLK Jr. Located in Washington D.C. It was built in 2009 to 2011. It honors MLK's percervierence and fighting for equality.

This is a picture of the man who killed MLK Jr. He was named James Earl Ray. He killed him because he was a segregationist.

Martin Luther King was shot dead while standing on a balcony outside his second-floor room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee.

Room 5: The Assassination of MLK Jr. 1968

Brown won the court case and it became illegal for public schools to be segergated

Many poeple protested for schools to desegergate

Oliver Brown was with the NAACP fighting for schools to be desegergated

Room 6: Brown vs. Board of Education