CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT Civil Rights Movement Taking on
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CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
Civil Rights Movement • Taking on segregation in American society • De facto segregation – by practice or custom • De jure segregation – by law • Keys to the accomplishing freedom and equality • Courts • Non-violent protests • Massive • Youth are involved • The right language • The media gets involved
Jim Crow America
School Desegregation
Brown v. Board of Education (1954) • Addressed segregation in four states – KS, SC, VA, and DE • Thurgood Marshall (NAACP lawyer and future Supreme Court Justice) is the attorney • Ruling: “Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal. ” • Impact: • Southern Manifesto – 90 Southern members of Congress denounced Brown and called on the states to resist it “by all lawful means. ” • 10 years later most southern states had not fully integrated
Emmett Till (1955)
Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955 -56)
• Begins with Rosa Parks • Lasts over a year • Importance • Martin Luther King, Jr. is selected as the leader • Economic boycotts work • Non-violent protests work
Formation of SCLC
Little Rock Nine (1957 -58) • Central High School: Little Rock, Arkansas • Governor is up for reelection and does not want to • • • integrate Uses the National Guard to deny the students entry Eisenhower meets with Faubus and convinces him that it is in his best interest to let the students enroll He provides a basic police force and it turns into a riot Eisenhower federalizes the Arkansas National Guard and sends in the 101 st Airborne The next year Faubus closes the school system in Little Rock
The Greensboro Four (1960)
Formation of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Sit-in Movement
Freedom Rides (1961)
• The Freedom Rides magnified the necessity for federal support for Civil Rights Workers • This showed the nature of the state vs. federal authority issue present during the Civil Rights Movement
Birmingham (1963) • Known as Bombingham; Project C (Confrontation) • Specifically targeted • “Letter From Birmingham City Jail” • Directed towards local white clergy • Tired of hearing the word “wait” • The white moderate is the key problem • Children’s March • 1, 000 children jailed
I Have a Dream Speech
• The speech • Connection to America’s past • Constant referencing brotherhood of whites and blacks • Use of geography makes it a national issue • Religion, religion
Selma (1965)
• Selma March • From Selma to Montgomery, Alabama (along the Jefferson Davis Highway) • 5 days; 54 miles; from 300 to 25, 000 marchers • Protected by 2, 000 soldiers of the U. S. Army, 1, 900 members of the Alabama National Guard under Federal command, and many FBI agents and Federal Marshals
Black Power Movement
Black Panthers
Malcolm X
• 1968 Olympics • Tommie Smith, Peter Norman, John Carlos • IOC’s reaction • U. S. ’s reaction • Australia’s reaction
San Jose State Memorial
1968 Riots
- Civil rights webquest
- Civil rights movement vocabulary
- Mother of the modern day civil rights movement
- Civil rights movement webquest
- Civil rights movement jeopardy
- The civil rights movement
- Civil rights movement goal
- Civil rights movement essential questions
- Taking the consumer movement forward
- Civil rights choice board
- Postwar prosperity and civil rights
- Title vii of the civil rights act
- Truman supports civil rights
- Civil rights in child nutrition programs
- What did the civil rights act of 1875 do
- Unruh civil rights act real estate
- Federally protected classes
- Chapter 21 civil rights equal justice under law
- Right to die
- Title vii of the civil rights act
- Characteristics of civil rights
- Civil rights graphic organizer
- Chapter 20 civil liberties protecting individual rights
- Title vi of the civil rights act of 1964
- Civil rights timeline of events
- Civil rights movment
- Chapter 20 civil liberties protecting individual rights
- Unit 7 modern ga and civil rights
- Civil rights jeopardy
- Civil rights cloze notes 1
- Civil rights collage
- Chapter 20 civil liberties protecting individual rights
- Civil rights in child nutrition programs
- Civil rights sitins
- Cacfp civil rights
- Civil rights bell ringers
- Civil rights training certificate
- Usda civil rights training
- Chapter 14 postwar prosperity and civil rights
- Lester maddox definition us history
- Positive rights and negative rights
- Negative right
- Negative right
- Littoral rights vs riparian rights
- Positive vs negative rights
- Characteristics of rights
- Legal rights vs moral rights