Transcript Freedom riders

MY black history report
DEANDRE B.
Freedom riders
The first Freedom Ride took place on
May 4, 1961 when seven blacks and six
whites left Washington, D.C., on two
public buses bound for the Deep South.
They intended to test the Supreme Court's
ruling in Boynton v. Virginia (1960),
which declared segregation in interstate
bus and rail stations unconstitutional.
JESSE OWENS
He was number worlds greatest track & field
athlete & a olympic gold medalist
EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION
Emancipation
Proclamation
A.what it is
A.the emancipation
proclamation was
free slaves in certain
parts of the country
and was established
by Abraham
Lincoln.
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13 Amendment
 Passed by Congress on
January 31, 1865, and
ratified on December 6,
1865, the 13th amendment
abolished slavery in the
United States and provides
that "Neither slavery nor
involuntary servitude, except
as a punishment for crime
whereof the party shall have
been duly convicted, shall
exist within the United
States, or any place subject
to their jurisdiction.".
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14
amendment
The Fourteenth Amendment provides a
broad definition of citizenship, overruling
the decision in Dred Scott v.
Sandford(1857), which had excluded
slaves and their descendants from
possessing Constitutional rights.
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15
amendment
The 15th amendment to the United States
Constitution prohibits each government in the
United States from denying a citizen the right to
vote based on that citizen's "race, color, or
previous condition of servitude" slavery. It was
ratified on February 3, 1870.
The Fifteenth Amendment is one of the
Reconstruction Amendments.
Brown vs. Board
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka was a
landmark decision of the United States Supreme
Court that declared state laws establishing
separate public schools for black and white
students, denying black children equal
educational opportunities unconstitutional. The
decision overturned earlier rulings going back
to plessy v. Ferguson in 1896. Handed down on
May 17, 1954, the Warren Court's unanimous
(9–0) decision stated that "separate educational
facilities are inherently unequal."
Little Rock Nine
The little rock nine were a group of AfricanAmerican students who were enrolled in Little
Rock Central High School in 1957. The ensuing
little rock crisis, in which the students were
initially prevented from entering the racially
segregated school by Arkansas Governor
Oraval Faubus, and then attended after the
intervention of President Eisenhower, is
considered to be one of the most important
events in the African-American Civil Rights
Movement.
Civil rights act of 1964
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 (July 2,
1964)was a landmark piece of legislation
in the United States that extended voting
rights and outlawed racial segregation in
schools, at the workplace and by facilities
that served the general public public
accommodations.
I HAVE A DREAM
 I Have a Dream" is the popular name
given to the public speech by Martin
Luther King, Jr., in which he called
for racial equality and an end to
discrimination King's delivery of the
speech on August 28, 1963, from the
steps of the Lincoln Memorial during
the March on Washington for Jobs
and Freedom, was a defining moment
of the American Civil Rights
Movement. Delivered to over 200,000
civil rights supporters, the speech is
often considered to be one of the
greatest and most notable speeches in
human history.
THE END
By DEANDRE B.
AND
MONTICA CLAY