BLACK

HISTORY
PROJECT
BY: MARCO MONCAYO

INFORMATIO
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African-American Civil Rights Movement
(19541968)
The African-American Civil Rights Movement
(19551968) refers to the social movements
in the United States aimed at outlawing racial
discrimination against black Americans and
restoring voting rights to them. This article
covers the phase of the movement between
1955 and 1968, particularly in the South. The
emergence of the Black Power Movement,
which lasted roughly from 1966 to 1975,
enlarged the aims of the Civil Rights
Movement to include racial dignity, economic
and political self-sufficiency, and freedom
from oppression by white Americans.

INFORMATIO
N
The

emergence of the Black Power

Movement, which lasted roughly
from 1966 to 1975, enlarged the
aims of the Civil Rights Movement
to include racial dignity, economic
and political self-sufficiency, and
freedom from oppression by white
Americans

TIME LINE
1954

Brown v. Board of Education case:

strikes down segregation as
unconstitutional.
1955 In Montgomery, Alabama, Rosa
Parks (1913 2005) is arrested for
breaking a city ordinance by refusing to
give up her seat on a public bus to a white
man. This defiant act gives initial
momentum to the Civil Rights Movement.
1957 Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929 1968)
and others set up the Southern Christian
Leadership

TIME LINE
Conference,

a leading engine of the Civil

Rights Movement.
1964 The Civil Rights Act is signed,
prohibiting discrimination of all kinds.
1965 The Voting Rights Act is passed,
outlawing the practices used in the South
to disenfranchise African American voters.
1967 Edward W. Brooke becomes the first
African American U.S. Senator since
Reconstruction. He serves two terms as a
Senator from Massachusetts.

TIME LINE

1968

Martin Luther King, Jr. is

assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee.
2008 Barack Obama (1961 - ) becomes
the first African American to win the U.S.
presidential

CHARACTER

ROSA PARKS
Rosa

Louise McCauley
Parks(February 4, 1913
October 24, 2005) was
anAfrican-Americancivil
rightsactivist, also called
The First Lady of Civil
Rights" and The Mother
of the Freedom
Movement"

QUESTIONS

What is her contribution to our

society ?
On

December 1, 1955, Parks refused to

give up her seat to a white male while
riding a Montgomery bus.
After with the Bus Boycott she did
that U.S. Supreme Court declared
segregation on Montgomery buses
unconstitutional on November 13, 1956.

QUESTIONS

Did anything change or impact

our country as a
result ?
The

impact that the country received

was the begin of the Black People
Movement for the Declaration of the
Civil Rights.
Also this started to change the mind of
racist people

QUESTIONS

Where did this event take

place ?
It

took place in Montgomery, Alabama

December 1, 1955 to November 13,
1956

QUESTIONS

What did I learn from this

assignment ?
I

learned from this assignment how was

the hard fight of the Black People during
19541968 to create a Declaration
African-American Civil Rights.
Also I learned about famous AfricanAmerican people that helped in the past
to create a god future