THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT

CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT TIMELINE

1948, July 26: Truman signs Executive Order 9981

• 1954, May 17: The Supreme Court agreed that segregation in public schools are wrong.

•1955, August: Emmett Till was kidnapped, beaten up badly, shot, and was put in the Tallahatchie River for whistling at a white woman.

•1955, December 1: Rosa Parks refuses to giver her seat up to a white man and gets arrested.

•1957, January-February: Martin Luther King, Charles K. Steele, and Fred L. Shuttlesworth made the Southern Christian Leadership.

• 1957, September: President Eisenhower sends troops to and the National Guard to come between disputing on behalf of the students, who will be known as the Little Rock Nine.

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•1960, February 1: Four black students begin a sit-in at a segregated Woolworth’s counter, this event triggers a lot of many nonviolent protest throughout the South.

•1960, April: The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee provided young blacks with a place in the movement.

•1961, May 4: Students begin taking bus trips through the South to experiment new laws, which prohibits segregation in interstate travel facilities, which include bus and railway stations.

•1963, April 16: Martin Luther King is arrested and jailed.

•1964, January 23: the 24th amendment abolishes poll taxes.

•1964, July 2: President Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act 1964, the most sweeping civil rights legislation.

•1965, August 10: Congress Passes the Voting Rights Act, making it less difficult for black people to register to vote.

•1988, March 22: Congress passes the Civil Rights Restoration Act, which makes the nondiscrimination laws increase.

•1991, November 22: After several years of debate, vetoes, and threatening vetoes, President Bush turned himself around and signed the Civil Rights Act of 1991.

Biography of Rosa Parks

• was born in February 13,1913

• was homeschooled until she was 11

• In August 20, 1915 her brother was born

• In 1917 the family moved to Pine Level, Alabama

• enrolled in Montgomery Industrial School for Girls

• The Klu Klux Klan marched down her street in Pine Level

• was elected secretary of the Civil Rights Movement in December 1943

• though was greatly honored in the later years, has suffered a lot in order to get the honor; lost her job as a seamstress and moved in order to get a job

• married Raymond parks in 1932

Respect Plan

• We could treat people fairly and with respect

• Include people and to not leave anyone out just because they are different

• Don’t call anyone names

• Care and listen to peoples’ problems.

• Don’t start gossips or rumors that may harm someone