1. WE SHALL OVERCOME
Civil Rights Fights

2. Equality for All
 Thurgood Marshall, attorney for the NAACP, represented Brown vs Board of
Education
 Attorney for the Brown Family
 This desegregated the public schools

3. Montgomery Bus Boycott
 Rosa Parks
 December 1, 1955
 Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on the city bus to a white man
 Charged with a crime
 Led to the Birmingham Bus Boycott
 Martin Luther King Jr. was the organizer over the Birmingham Bus Boycott
 The bus system was soon desegregated
 This was effecting all businesses economically

4. Lunch Counter Sit Ins
 Greensboro, North Carolina
 Result of a Fisk University student-Diane Nash
 Diane Nash found it difficult to adjust to the Jim Crow etiquette
 Blacks could spend money at retail stores, but they could not sit at the lunch
counters to eat or relax

5. The Fight to Vote
 1964 was the start of allowing African Americans the right to vote
 The voting rights act was passed in 1965, and signed by President Lyndon B.
Johnson
 The passage of this act increased registered African American voters to vote

6. 16th Street Baptist Church Bombing
 September 1963
 Birmingham Alabama
 Four black girls ages 11-14 were killed at their church from an unprovoked
racially motivated act of violence
 Shook the nation heavily

7. March on Washington Movement
 August 28, 1963
 For jobs and freedom
 Washington D.C.
 250,000 people in attendance
 Wide television coverage
 Represented different non violent civil rights groups fighting for equality
 Speaker was Martin Luther King, Jr.
 Famous I Have A Dream speech

8. The Struggle and the Fight
Continues!