Early Days of the Civil Rights Movement Origins

Early Days of the Civil Rights Movement

Origins of the Jim Crow System • Reconstruction gave hope to African Americans that they could be equal • 13 th -14 th – 15 th amendments • Civil rights Act of 1875 outlawed segregation

Blacks Lost Their Rights in the 1880’s 90’s • • Federal Troops withdrawn 1876 KKK organized Former Confederates Aid society for Civil War widows

Supreme Court Rules Against Equal Rights • Courts - Civil Rights Act struck down in 1883 as an infringement of states’ rights • Plessey v Ferguson case 1896 – Separate but Equal Doctrine

The Great Migration 1915 -29 and 1939 -1960’s Over 5 million move north and to the West coast

WW II and Truman Presidency Set the Stage • Returning black soldiers resent Jim Crow • FDR orders defense industries integrated after A. Phillip Randolgh threatens a 100, 000 person march • Truman orders the military integrated • 1948 Supreme Court strike down restrictive covenants on selling to blacks • Truman orders the U. S. government integrated

NAACP Leads the Way with Legal Cases • Brown v Board of Education 1954 overturns Plessey v. Ferguson – “Separate is inherently unequal”

History of De Facto Segregation in Detroit • How the racial divide was created and maintained with government help • Hiding in Plain Sight: The Walls that Divide Us • http: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=Qh 42 TGld 1 HY

Detroit riot 1967 – Two Societies • http: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=hsn. Cov 7 b OTw

Black Militancy • I’m Black and I’m Proud – James Brown http: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=2 VRSAVDl p. DI • The Revolution will Not Be Televised – Gil Scott Heron http: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=BS 3 QOtb W 4 m 0