The Sixties The Civil Rights Movement Vocab List
The Sixties! The Civil Rights Movement
Vocab List 36 P 380 CH 16 -Seperate but equal -De facto Segregation. P 386 -Filibuster -Cloture P 392 -Racism -Black Power
I. Background • • • A) Sixties were a prosperous time… if you were white o 50% of black families lived in poverty o Segregation - the RULE - in housing & employment & Public Accommodations B) What Sparks Civil rights? o Black Soldiers who fought in WWII demanded equality C) Goal of Civil Rights movement? o DESEGREGATE SCHOOLS o If education is equal. empowerment is equal.
II. Brown v. Board of Education • • • Most important Supreme Court Case of 20 th century 1954 - Brown - shakes the country. Court finds: o “Segregation itself is damaging to black children because they recognize that being separated is a badge of inferiority” o NO MORE SEPARATE SCHOOLS FOR WHITES AND BLACKS!! Decision leads to MASSIVE RESISTANCE IN THE SOUTH o All public school close in south for 5 years o States paid for white students to go to “Private academies”
III. The Civil Rights Movement • Through most of 1950 s/60 s - Consisted of: o 1) Sit ins - blacks sitting in restaurants until served. Instead they got arrested. o 2) Freedom Rides - Northern blacks going into south facing violence, bombs, dogs and beatings o 3) Birmingham, Alabama - notorious for most racism. 50 bombings there alone. JFK had to bring in federal troops. o 4) 1963 - MLK marches onto DC - largest march in nation's history wehre he says the infamous I have a dream speech o 5) Black Power Movement - celebration of African American culture + critique of White oppression. Led to many riots in cities. § Ex: Black Panthers - had guns, but also did community Service
Sit Ins
Birmingham
MLK’s March on Washington
Black Power
Freedom Rides!
Civil Rights Footage
IV. Notable Civil Rights Champions • • • 1) Malcolm X - called for black self-reliance and violence. A muslim. o Assassinated in 1965 o A genius / bad ass who led black power movement 2) Rosa Parks - refused to sit on back of bus. o Arrested, beginning a boycott of all public transportation by blacks o Not just a random lady, actually huge activist. 3) Martin Luther King Jr. - 26 year old Atlanta Pastor o Churches were central to the civil rights movement. o Championed integration for schools, higher minimum wage, and an end to discrimination in housing & employment. o Assassinated in 1968.
MLK Speech
Malcolm X vs MLK
Malcolm X Speech
V. Civil Rights act of 1964 • • JFK realized that equality did not exist in America. Pushed to end the system of inequality. Called on congress to ban discrimination, but then assassinated : ( President Johnson pushes on his behalf: o CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 1964. PROHIBITS DISCRIMINATION IN: § Schools & Hospitals § Restaurants, Theaters, and Hotels § Employmen o Voting Rights Act of 1965 - Federal government oversees elections in racist south.
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