Chapter 21 Part 1 Pages 700 707 Terms

Chapter 21 Part 1 Pages 700 -707

Terms to Know • • Segregation Plessy v Ferguson Brown v Board of Education Rosa Parks Martin Luther King Jr. SCLC Sn. CC

The Civil War and Reconstruction • National Supremacy Amendments: • -13 abolition of slavery • 14 Rights of Citizenship • 15 The vote

What stood in the way? • • • The KKK Black Codes Economic pressure The Poll Tax Literacy Tests The Court

1896 Plessey v Ferguson • Separate but Equal IS constitutional • 1954 Brown v Board of Education overturned the Plessey case

Southern Reaction • Refused to comply with the Court’s ruling • Brown II: States must integrate schools “with all deliberate speed” • Did not help much

Pupil Placement Laws • State laws justifying segreagtion • Students were placed in schools according to their solcial behavior and academic standing • The Court upheld these laws!

Rosa Parks 1955 • Refused to give up her seat to a white guy on the bus • Was arrested

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. • A very young Baptist minister • Organized a bus Boycott Montgomery, Alabama • Went on for 11 months • Hugely successful • 1957 Civil Rights Act: segregation in public transportation is illegal

Civil Rights Groups • • • The SCLC The NAACP SNCC CORE The Black Muslims (Nation of Islam) The Black Panthers)

Nashville, Tenn • The Athens of the South • Freedom Rides • Integrating lunch counters (Core) • Little Rock Arkansas and Eisenhower • Arkansas and Virginia

The SCLC 1957 • Dr. King’s philosophy and inspiration • • • Jesus Gandhi Labor Unions Ella Baker and SNCC The NAACP

CORE • 1946 Chicago • Sit-ins to integrate lunch counters • Greensboro, NC. Sit ins at Woolworths • Beatings, violence…televised