1963 - Civil Rights Movement

1. 16th Street Baptist Church Bombing

1.1. September 15, 1963, early that morning, four member of the Ku Klux Klan planted several sticks of dynamite beneath the steps of the church

1.2. Five Children were in the church basement and four of these innocent children were killed from the blast of dynamite

1.3. This tragic event happened in Birmingham, Alabama.

1.4. Many black people rushed to the church to help go through the ruble to look for more bodies this day.

2. Segregation

2.1. Segregation seperates humans into different groups based on the color of their skin

2.2. Separate but Equal: The law said that segregation was OK, as long as things and places such as public transportation, housing, education and medical care etc., were equal or the same

2.3. Sit-in movement at restaurants begins in 1960

2.4. Black people organized Freedom Rides in 1961.

3. Demonstation (Street Protests)

3.1. Happening in then in 1963 and now in 2020.

3.2. During a demonstration, a group of people come together to make their opinion known about a specific cause.

3.3. Today we are still having peaceful protests to bring awareness for the social injustices for Black people.

3.4. Blood Sunday happened in 1965 when State Troopers met the peaceful protesters at the end of the Edmund Pettus bridge and beat the protesters with their billy clubs, allowed their dogs to attack the black protesters, sprayed fire hose water at them that was very painful, arrested innocent people.

4. March to Selma

4.1. Several civil rights activists and leaders went to Alabama to protest the fact that black people were not allowed to vote

4.2. This group Marched all the way from Selma to Montgomery on foot. They crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge with John Lewis who has his skull crushed during a beating from the local all white police force. John Lewis just passed away in July 2020.

4.3. This trip on foot took several days to walk 54 miles with many people on this united journey together.

5. Slavery

5.1. White humans were allowed to own Black humans

5.2. Harriet Tubman was born into slavery as Araminta Ross in the early 1800's. She helped free a lot of slaves including her own family members.

5.3. This meant that white people were allowed to treat black people like property

5.4. Sojouner Truth who was born into slavery sued a white plantation owner in 1828 for freedom of her son and won.

5.5. Abraham LIncoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 to abolish slavery

6. Civil Rights

6.1. It protects our freedom

6.2. It protects us from being discriminated against because we are different

6.3. Civil Rights Movement Major events timeline 1959 -1963

6.4. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gives famous "I Have a Dream" Speech in Washington DC on August 28, 1963

7. Desegregation

7.1. Means that the separation of two groups by race became illegal

7.2. May 17th, 1954 the U.S. Courts declared that segregated schools were unconstitutional

7.3. This meant no more separate drinking fountains for colored and white people in school, military, restaurants, hotels, busing, and housing developments