Transcript Civil Rights Movement: People

Civil Rights Movement:
People
Branch Rickey
General
Manager
of the Brooklyn
Dodgers
Hired Jackie
Robinson to play in
the major leagues
Thurgood Marshall
Lawyer
for the
NAACP
Argued the case of
Brown v. Board of
Educaton
Later first African
American Supreme
Court Justice
Earl Warren
Chief
Justice of
the United States
Supreme Court
Wrote the
majority opinion in
Brown v. Board
Jo Ann Robinson
Civil
Rights leader
in Montgomery,
Alabama
Helped organize
the Montgomery
Bus Boycott after
the arrest of Rosa
Parks
Dwight Eisenhower
 President
of the
United States, 19521960
 Ordered federal
troops to enforce the
desegregation of
Little Rock Central
High School
Rosa Parks
 Civil
Rights Worker in
Montgomery Alabama
 Was arrested for
refusing to give up her
seat on a city bus,
provoking the
Montgomery
Busboycott.
Orval Faubus
Governor
of
Arkansas
Tried to prevent
the integration of
Little Rock Central
High School
Malcom X
 Leader
in the Nation
of Islam
 Came to oppose the
cause of Black
Nationalism after a
pilgrimage to Mecca
 Was assassinated in
1965
Bobby Seale
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Founder with
Huey Newton of
the Black Panthers
Wanted African
Americans to take
charge and lead in
their own
communities