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The document summarizes key events and movements in the civil rights struggle in the United States, including the Montgomery bus boycott led by Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr., student sit-ins to desegregate lunch counters, Freedom Riders who challenged segregation on interstate buses, the Birmingham campaign's protests that brought national attention to the violence against civil rights activists, Martin Luther King Jr.'s iconic "I Have a Dream" speech at the March on Washington, and the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 under President Lyndon B. Johnson.

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The Montgomery bus boycott • In 1955 Rosa Parks, was arrested when she refused to give up her sit for a white man . • Her arrest gave local black women's organisation and civil rights groups to organise bus boycotts • Martin Luther king was the one who led the boycott which lasted for about a year • 13 months later segregation bus law in Alabama was declared unconstitutional by supreme court
STUDENTS AND THE MOVEMENT THE SIT-INS • These young men sat at the counter and refused to leave until served. • One year after the young men had sat down at the all white lunch counter, more than seventy thousands Americans participated in the sit-in movement. • City by city they had challenged Jim Crow segregation at lunch counters in the South and protested to national chains that practiced segregation in their Southern stores. • The student nonviolent student coordinating committee (SNCC) played a major role during the sit-in movement.
FREEDOM RIDERS  4 MAY 1961 13 members of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE). This racially integrated group, calling themselves freedom riders meant to demonstrate that, despite the Supreme Court rulings ordering the desegregation of interstate buses and bus stations. These young men and women knew they were risking and some suffered injuries which they never recovered. One bus was fired bomb outside Anniston, Alabama. Riders were badly beaten in Birmingham.
The Birmingham campaign King and his Southern Christian Leadership (SCLC) began to plan a 1963 campaign in one of the violent cities Birmingham. Through this campaign King wanted all Americans to see the racist hate and violence that married their nation. They put children on the front lines of the protest. The police used water, guns and set dogs to disperse the crowd. This protests brought pressure to Kennedy and he agreed to negotiate a settlement.
March to washington • 28 august 1963 Martin Luther King led the March to Washington • About a quarter million participants in support of Kennedy's civil rights bill • Wanted federal action to guarantee work opportunities • I have a dream speech made • The march to Washington for jobs and freedom was a moment of triumph demonstrating to the nation the determination of its African American citizens to secure equality and justice.
Civil rights act • After Kennedy was assassinated in 1963. • His successor Lyndon Johnson made civil rights his top legislative priority. • In July Johnson signed into law the civil rights Act of 1964 • The 1964 civil rights Act gave the civil rights movement a major legislative victory.
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  • 2. The Montgomery bus boycott • In 1955 Rosa Parks, was arrested when she refused to give up her sit for a white man . • Her arrest gave local black women's organisation and civil rights groups to organise bus boycotts • Martin Luther king was the one who led the boycott which lasted for about a year • 13 months later segregation bus law in Alabama was declared unconstitutional by supreme court
  • 3. STUDENTS AND THE MOVEMENT THE SIT-INS • These young men sat at the counter and refused to leave until served. • One year after the young men had sat down at the all white lunch counter, more than seventy thousands Americans participated in the sit-in movement. • City by city they had challenged Jim Crow segregation at lunch counters in the South and protested to national chains that practiced segregation in their Southern stores. • The student nonviolent student coordinating committee (SNCC) played a major role during the sit-in movement.
  • 4. FREEDOM RIDERS  4 MAY 1961 13 members of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE). This racially integrated group, calling themselves freedom riders meant to demonstrate that, despite the Supreme Court rulings ordering the desegregation of interstate buses and bus stations. These young men and women knew they were risking and some suffered injuries which they never recovered. One bus was fired bomb outside Anniston, Alabama. Riders were badly beaten in Birmingham.
  • 5. The Birmingham campaign King and his Southern Christian Leadership (SCLC) began to plan a 1963 campaign in one of the violent cities Birmingham. Through this campaign King wanted all Americans to see the racist hate and violence that married their nation. They put children on the front lines of the protest. The police used water, guns and set dogs to disperse the crowd. This protests brought pressure to Kennedy and he agreed to negotiate a settlement.
  • 6. March to washington • 28 august 1963 Martin Luther King led the March to Washington • About a quarter million participants in support of Kennedy's civil rights bill • Wanted federal action to guarantee work opportunities • I have a dream speech made • The march to Washington for jobs and freedom was a moment of triumph demonstrating to the nation the determination of its African American citizens to secure equality and justice.
  • 7. Civil rights act • After Kennedy was assassinated in 1963. • His successor Lyndon Johnson made civil rights his top legislative priority. • In July Johnson signed into law the civil rights Act of 1964 • The 1964 civil rights Act gave the civil rights movement a major legislative victory.