1. The American Civil Rights Movement

2. When Does Civil Rights Begin?

4. WHAT Does President Truman Do?

6. No New Legislation Is Passed Under Truman

7. The Eisenhower Years

8. Signs Civil Rights Act of 1957 Signs Civil Rights Act of 1959

9. The Movement Picks Up Steam By Late 1950’s

10. Major Figures Arise

11. 1955: Rosa Parks Refuses to Sit in the Back of the Bus

12. Montgomery Bus Boycott Ensues

13. Enter Martin Luther King Jr.

14. Who Was Martin Luther King?

16. Malcolm X Represents Other Side of the Movement

18. New Organizations Form SCLC SNCC CORE NAACP

19. A Mass Movement

20. 1960: Lunch Counter Sit-ins Begin in Greensboro, NC

21. May, 1961 : CORE Starts Freedom Rides through the South

22. Birmingham 1963 Church Bombing Police Brutality Under “Bull” Connor King Imprisoned, writes “Letter From Birmingham City Jail”

23. Violence is Broadcast into American Living Rooms for 1 st Time

24. President Kennedy Forced to Act

26. August, 1963: “I Have a Dream”

28. HOW Will President Johnson Handle Civil Rights??

30. Violence Still Increasing

31. Ku Klux Klan Murders 3 Workers During Freedom Summer Bloody Sunday: Selma, Alabama

32. February 21, 1965: Malcolm X Assassinated

33. Throughout the Violence, Progress is Made

36. 1968 Olympics

37. In The Summer of 1967 Race Riots Break Out in Detroit and Newark

39. The Counter Culture Movement is also Taking Headlines

40. April 4, 1968: MLK Assassinated

41. Did Civil Rights as a Movement Die With King?