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The Memories of the Civil

Rights Movement

By Ashleigh Brown

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Presidents

Abraham Lincoln

Lincoln was the president when the South broke away from the North.

He did not believed in Slavery. After the south lost the civil war, Lincoln

was killed. All of the former slaves were frighten by the death. Abraham

was the person who wrote the Emancipation Proclamation. It eventually

freed many slaves, and was made to punish the south for breaking away

from the country during the Civil War. As a result he helped end slavery.

John F. Kennedy

Kennedy helped pass laws to end segregation and discrimination. Hehelped thenineblack student into Central High School safe. He also helped

more Blacks win the right to vote. The Civil Rights Act of 1964, which was

passed after his death, made it illegal to force Blacks to use separate

schools, theaters, restaurants, buses, restrooms, and trains. He also died.

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Key Events

December 1, 1955 a black woman named Rosa Parks refused to

give up her bus seat after a long day at work. She was arrested. In

response to her arrest the Montgomery black community launchesa

bus boycott. It lasted for about 10 years.

August 28, 1963 200,000 people join the March on Washington.

Martin Luther King deliveredhis famous speech I Have a Dream at

the Lincoln Memorial.

February 1, 1960 four black students from North Carolina

Agricultural and Technical College begin a sit-in at a segregated

Woolworths lunch counter. Theywere refused service but they were

able to stay sited at the counter. While sitting at the counter they

were being teased by white men. As a result of this the same four were

served at the same dinner. Student sit-ins would be effective

throughout the Deep South in all public facilities.

April 11, 1968 president Johnson sign the Civil rights Act of

1968, prohibiting discrimination in the sale, rental, and financing

of housing.

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Famous Students

Ruby Bridges was the first black child to attend William Frantz Elementary

School, as well as the first African American child to go to an all-white

elementary school located in the South. The white parents were against the Civilrights Movement and refused to send the children to school with Ruby. Ruby was

forced to be taught in a separate classroom with no classmates and her teacher.

In Little Rock, Arkansas, nine black students walk into Central High School. They

must be protected by armed guards because the white students, white parents and

even the Governor of Arkansas didnt want Blacks and Whites to attend the same

school. Whites tried to attack the nine students to keep Blacks out of their school.

James Meredith was the first black student to enroll at the University of Mississippi.

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Loved Ones

January 30, 2006- Coretta Scott King, Dr. Martin

Luther king Jr. Wife, died from a stroke at age 78.

October 24, 2005-Rosa Parks dies at age 92

August 1955-Emmett Till, 14 year old, wasvisiting family when he was kidnapped. After a bet

with his friend, he was beaten, shot, and dumped

in the Tallahatchie River because he whistled at

white women. The young boy died a hero.

February 21, 1965- Malcolm X was shot to

death by a black man.

April 4, 1968- Martin Luther King was shot at

the age of 39 in the head while standing over the

balcony outside his hotel room. James Earl Ray was

convicted of this crime.