Civil Rights Movement
Published on Nov 22, 2015
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Martin Luther King jr.
He was a social activist and a baptist minister who led the civil rights movement in the United States, wanted to end segregation, (During the mid-1950's) and grew up in Atlanta, Georgia. He ended legal segregation, and created the civil rights act of 1964, and the voting rights act of 1965.
Rosa Parks
On December 1, 1955, Rosa parks refused to give up her seat to white man, and was arrested. She was fighting for integration on busses. After being defeated in many lower court rulings and suffering big financial losses, the city of Montgomery lifted the law, ending segregated public transportation.
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Fred Shuttlesworth
As a minister in Birmingham, he helped lead the fight against segregation. He cofounded the southern Christian leadership conference, and was instrumental in 1963. He continued to work against racism in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Ruby Bridges
Ruby Bridges was the first African American child to go to an all white school. Ruby and her family wanted integrated schools. She was enrolled to the William Frantz Elementary school in New Orleans. She attended her first day of school on November 14, 1960.(she was 4 years old)
Thurgood Marshall
In Baltimore, Maryland he helped end legal segregation, and became the first African American justice of the Supreme Court. In 1954, he won the Brown v. Board of Education case, which ended legal segregation in public schools.
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