Civil Rights Protests in the 1950’s & Early 1960’s
“Biggest Damn Fool Mistake”
Chief Justice Earl Warren
NAACP Legal Defense Fund, INC Chief Counsel
Brown v. Board of Education(1954)
Rosa Parks
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Southern Christian Leadership Council (SCLC)
Massive Resistance
Emmett Till Lynching, 1955
Little Rock, 1957
Little Rock Nine
Blocked by Arkansas National Guard
101st Airborne
Greensboro, N.C. February 1, 1960
Nashville Sit-Ins
A Long Wait?
Non-Violent Resistance
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)
Anniston AL lights the way!
Alabama, 1963
Freedom Riders in Montgomery
Welcome to Birmingham
James Farmer Welcomed in Jackson, MS
James Meredith at Ole Miss
Mississippi Governor Ross Barnett and Friends
Gov. George Wallace
Vivian Malone
June 12,1963: Medgar Evers
Byron De La Beckwith 1963, 1994 & 1997
Birmingham, 1963
“Putting on the Pressure”
Thomas Blanton and Bobby Frank Cherry Guilty, 2001
Asa Philip Randolph
Planning the March on Washington
John Lewis 1963 and 2003
Malcolm Little, Malcolm X , Malik El Shabazz
M&M
Malcolm X and Louis X
Elijah Muhammad