CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT - Musa Erseda

MUSA ERSEDA

THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT

• 1868- 14th Amendment
• 1879- 15th Amendment
• Jim Crow Laws
• WW2
• Cold War and Executive Order 9981

ROOTS

• December 1, 1955
• MIA (Montgomery Improvement Association)
• Boycott of the Montgomery bus System

ROSA PARKS

• 1954- End of segregation in public schools
• September 4- Central High School, Little Rock
• Eisenhowers measures
• Civil Rights Act '57

1957

• 1961- Protests against segregated bus terminals
• The 13 Freedom Riders
• Alabama bus bombing
• Decisions of the Kennedy administration

FREEDOM RIDERS

• 1963- March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom
• Martin Luther King's Speech "I have a dream"

MARCH ON WASHINGTON

• 1965- The Selma March
• Jimmie Lee Jackson's death
• Edmund Pettus Bridge
• NONVIOLENCE

selma's BLOODY SUNDAY

• April 4, 1968
• Riots
• Pressures on the Johnson administration
• Other Civil Rights Acts

MLK'S DEATH

• Violence as impractical and immoral
• "Christ furnished the spirit and motivation while Gandhi furnished the method."
• "We are out to defeat injustice and not white persons who may happen to be unjust."
• "Along the way of life, someone must have sense enough and morality enough to cut off the chain of hate"

NONVIOLENCE

MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.

“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.”

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SOURCES

MUSA ERSEDA

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