1. “A Change is Gonna’ Come,” Sam Cooke, 1963
I was born by the river in a little tent
Oh and just like the river I've been running ever since
It's been a long, a long time coming
But I know a change gonna come, oh yes it will
It's been too hard living but I'm afraid to die
Cause I don't know what's up there beyond the sky
I go to the movie and I go downtown
Somebody keep telling me don't hang around
Then I go to my brother
And I say brother help me please
But he winds up knocking me
Back down on my knees
Ohhhhhhhhh.....
There been times that I thought I couldn't last for long
But now I think I'm able to carry on

2. CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT:
AFRICAN AMERICAN
CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT:
Non-Violent

3. Learning Targets Evaluate the need for a Civil Rights Movement
Describe the non-violent actions of the Civil Rights Movement
Summarize the accomplishments of the Civil Rights Movement

4. NEED FOR CHANGE

5. 1880s: Jim Crow Laws In response to Civil War Amendments
Separate but equal is legal

6. WWI and WWII Segregation in the military WWI Harlem Hell Fighters
WWII Tuskegee Airmen

7. 1950s: Conditions in the South
Separate schools
(images next slide)
Unequal treatment
Voting restrictions (poll taxes, literacy tests, intimidation)
Violence (lynchings, KKK, i.e. Emmet Till)

8. “Separate but Equal” Schools?
Vs.
African American School
White School
“Separate but Equal” Schools?
Photographs used in the Brown Vs. Board of Education case

9. White Board Moment
Summarize in 5 words or less why there was a need for a civil rights movement.

10. CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT

11. 1954: Brown Vs. Board of Education
Ruled that separate schools are NOT equal
Many Southern states refused to integrate (i.e. Little Rock)
"I draw the line in the dust and toss the gauntlet before the feet of tyranny and I say segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever." Governor of Alabama George Wallace, Inaugural address, Jan. 14, 1963

12. 1956: Montgomery Bus Boycott
Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat
NAACP and MLK, Jr. organized
Successful after one year
Rosa Park’s Arrest
MLK, Jr.

13. 1960: Sit-Ins Blacks refused to leave “whites only” Woolworths counter
Non-violent method spreads
Original “sit-in” in Greensboro
Idea spreads across the South

14. Whiteboard Moment Civil Disobedience: Sit Ins
Review the instructions for the Sit-Ins.
Which of these would be the most difficult to follow?

15. 1961: Freedom Rides Sponsored by C.O.R.E.
(Congress for Racial Equality)
 Tested Supreme Court decision
 Blacks and whites rode buses together

16. 1963: March on Washington Demonstration to support Civil Rights bill
Martin Luther King Jr. “I Have a Dream”

17. 1964: Voting Rights Drive “Freedom Summer” organized by students
Helped blacks to register to vote

18. White Board Moment In one word, describe the civil rights movement.
In one word, describe the reaction by some white southerners to the civil rights movement.

19. ACCOMPLISHMENTS

20. 1964: Civil Rights Act Outlawed discrimination in hiring
Ended segregation in public places
MLK planning the march to support the act
LBJ signing the act

21. 1964: 24th Amendment
Banned poll taxes

22. 1965: Voting Rights Act
Ended literacy tests

23. White Board Moment
What do you think was the most important accomplishment of the Civil Rights Movement? Why?

24. Reflection
After reading the primary sources, answer the following in your notebook:
Summarize the method of civil disobedience.
What was the purpose of using civil disobedience in protest?
How effective do you think civil disobedience was in the Civil Rights Movement?