CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT

JIM CROW LAWS

• A segregation between blacks and whites.
• Blacks were limited to the things that white could do.
• Blacks were not allowed in most places as where white people were.
• Discrimination put each race in a different location anywhere.
• Blacks normally did things with their race but were limited to the bone.

STORM THURMOND

• Governor of SC 1947-1951.
• He brought industry to SC.
• Extended the school year to nine months and added grade 12.
• Help Create technical colleges.
• Storm Thurmond also supported segregation.

BROWN VS. BOARD OF EDUCATION

• Brown was a black family with a daughter who had to travel miles just to go to school.
• Her parents soon became very angry with system because the Browns passes so many whtie schools.
• The Browns soon filed a court case to allow their daughter to go to school with white kids.
• After a long trial they soon declared segregation in schools unconstitutional.

THE ORANGEBURG MASSACRE

• The Orangeburg Massacre was a an incident dealing with Jim Crow Laws.
• TIt all started when some black teenagers wanted to bowl at a white bowling alley.
• The owner of the bowling alley had them leave and called the police.
• The black teenagers were all gathered at a school campus and started a riot.
• Somebody lit fireworks and the police fired back at the teenagers with guns and killed three people

M.L.K. JR.

• Martin Luther King Jr. Played a big role in the Civil Rights Movement.
• M.L.K Jr. Made peace with other blacks and told them not to fight with violence but words.
• The blacks agreed and followed M.L.K. Jr. and it paid off greatly
• M.L.K. Jr. gave his I dream speech in Washington D.C. at the state capital.
• There it was when all the segregation stopped and let blacks and whites in everywhere.