oral+history+research

"civil rights movement." //American History//.ABC-CLIO, 2011. Web. 27 May 2011.


 * The NAACP was established to help with this movement- goals were to give african americans a place in society equal to the place that whites has and to end segregation once and for all
 * there was segregation basically everywhere until 1954 when the Brown v. Board of Education got rid of seperate but equal in education. that desegregated schools
 * when rosa parks got arrested because she refused to give up her seat to a white man on a bus in Montgomery was when segregation was brought more to national attention
 * Martin Luther King Jr. was one of the leaders of the civil rights movement
 * There were many types of protests to bring segregation to national attention
 * Some nonviolent methods of protests were sit ins, which happened first in greensboro and nashville

"Nation: The Central Points - TIME." //Breaking News, Analysis, Politics, Blogs, News Photos, Video, Tech Reviews - TIME.com//. N.p., n.d. Web. 27 May 2011. .


 * Selma is a very racist city.- any negro who is seen in the street smoking a cigar or pipe is to be given 39 lashes in selma
 * There have been huge outbreaks of violence throughout the nation towards blacks from a lot of people, including the police
 * Sheriff james clark jailed over 2000 people in 7 weeks, including Martin Luther King Jr.
 * State troopers in Marion killed a young negro woodcutter by shooting him in the stomach; he died eight days later
 * In selma there was a march to get across a bridge which goes across the alabama river, but were stopped with tear gas and billy clubs