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The purpose of this trip is to explore some of the most important times and places of the Jim Crow South and the Civil Rights Movement. We will try to focus on important people and places - while "time traveling" in chronological order!

Civil Rights Timeline 1954-1963

Click on the link above to access a timeline with details concerning events of the Civil Rights Movement occurring between 1954 and 1963.

Civil Rights Timeline 1964-1968

Click on above link for timeline of events from 1964 to 1968.

media type="youtube" key="1QZik4CYtgw" height="315" width="420" Montgomery Bus Boycott 1955-1956. Dr. Martin Luther King explains why African Americans are boycotting the bus system of Montgormery, Alabama.

media type="youtube" key="XSdLPNQSa4k" height="315" width="420" Little Rock Integration 1957. Governor Orval Faubus of Arkansas ordered the Arkansas National Guard to keep the "Little Rock Nine," out of Central High School in 1957. President Eisenhower had to send Federal Troops from the 101st Airborne to insure that the law of the land as decided by Brown v. Board in 1954 was carried out, thus allowing the school to be integrated.

media type="youtube" key="q_-t3U9PsKo" height="315" width="420" Freedom Riders 1961. Black and White Freedom Riders tour the South to help insure that bus terminals and restaurants are no longer segregated by color. They are harrassed, beaten, and one of their buses is firebombed by angry whites.

media type="youtube" key="o54n7HXwOhc" height="315" width="420" Footage of the non-violent protests by African Americans in 1963, Birmingham, Alabama. Police dogs and firehoses are used by Police Commissioner Bull Connor to disperse the demonstrators. Footage of black women and children being assaulted by dogs and sprayed with the high pressure hoses makes the nationally televised evening news, thus swaying many white Americans to sympathize with the African American protestors.

media type="youtube" key="V57lotnKGF8" height="315" width="420" March on Washington - I Have a Dream 1963. To pressure the government and President Kennedy to act more swiftly on Civil Rights reforms, over 250,000 mostly black citizens march on Washington, DC. The culmination of the event is Dr. King's most famous speech.

media type="youtube" key="ZaRUca7FyAc" height="315" width="420" President Johnson signs to Civil Rights Acts of 1964 with Dr. Martin Luther King in attendance.

media type="youtube" key="cmOBbxgxKvo" height="315" width="420" Evening news coverage (anchored by Walter Cronkite) of the April 4th, 1968 assassination of Martin Luther King.

Civil Rights Museum E-Learning

The above link is an awesome E-Learning tool courtesy of the National Civil Rights Museum.

History by Era

The above link contains a comprhensive "History by Era" view of the Civil Rights Movement from the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History.

Educator Sites

The above link contains a comprehensive listing with links to great history websites especially for educators.