Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Civil Rights Campaigns
- BROWN 1954
- NAACP
- 'Seperate but equal'
- De jure victory
- Lynching of Emmett Till
- BROWN II 1955
- NAACP
- 'With all deliberate speed'
- De jure victory
- FAILURE!
- MONTGOMERY
BUS BOYCOTT
1955-6
- ROSA PARKS
- Browder v. Gayle
NAACP
- King
- SUCCESS!
- LITTLE ROCK 1957
- NAACP
- 9 Black
students
enrole
- Orval
Faubus
- President
Eisenhower
- SUCCESS!
- GREENSBORO
SIT INS 1960
- SCLC
- SUCCESS!
- Students in
a cafe
- Media coverage
- 70,000 joined
- SNCC
- FREEDOM RIDES 1961
- CORE
- SUCCESS!
but very violent
- "Bull" Connor
- Forces Kennedy
- KKK
- ALBANY 1961
- KING
- FAILURE!
- Laurie Pritchett
- Destroys the
possibility of violence
- Avoids media attention
- BIRMINGHAM 1963
- KING
- SUCCESS!
- High school students
- "Bull" Connor
- Police dogs
- Water cannons
+ Plastic bullets
- Locks up King
- MARCH ON
WASHINGTON 1963
- KING
- SUCCESS!
- Dream speech
- Free by '63
- Civil Rights Act '64
- 1/4 million
people
- MISSISSIPPI
FREEDOM
SUMMER 1964
- SNCC + CORE
- FAILURE!
- For voting rights
- 1,600/17,000
managed to register to
vote
- White backlash
- CHAOS
- Violence
- SELMA 1965
- KING
- 5 day march
- 8,000 at Selma...
- to 25,000 at
Montgomery
- SUCCESS!
- Voting Rights Act '65
- Postpone plea from
Johnson
- King agrees
- Break down of unity
- CHICAGO1966
- KING
- NORTH
- Biggest
black ghetto
- Not fans of MLK
- FAILURE!
- Speech at
football stadium
- 30,000/100,000
turned up
- Richard Daily
- Closes off hydrons in
ghettos during a heat wave
- Discredits MKL's
peaceful protest