1. Unit 7 CP United States History Civil Rights Part 1 1950’s, 1960’s, Civil Rights Truman, Eisenhower, JFK, LBJ, Nixon

2. Civil Rights Segregation, Jim Crow Laws Plessy vs. Ferguson (1896) NAACP Thurgood Marshall Brown vs. Board of Topeka (1954) Resistance – KKK – White Citizens Council

3. Civil Rights Emmett Till (1955) – From Chicago – Mississippi – “bye baby” – Not guilty

4. Civil Rights Rosa Parks – Montgomery, Alabama – Bus Boycott (1955-1956) Bus Boycott – SCLC (Southern Christian Leadership Conference) – MLK Jr. – Supreme Court desegregated busses

5. Civil Rights SCLC & MLK Jr. – Sit ins – Marches – Demonstrations – Non-violence – Civil disobedience – Boycotts – Cripple them economically

6. Civil Rights Little Rock, Arkansas (1957) – Central High School – Governor Orval Faubus – National Guard – Eisenhower – Put National Guard under federal government

7. Civil Rights 1957 Civil Rights Act: gave the Attorney General greater power over desegregation federal government authority over violations Use the courts to enforce 15 th amendment

8. Civil Rights SNCC (1960) – Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee – Immediate change – Sit ins

9. Civil Rights Greensboro, NC – Woolworth’s sit ins at lunch counters Woolworth’s sit ins at lunch counters

10. Civil Rights Freedom Rides (1961) – SNCC & CORE – Prohibited segregation in interstate transportation – Washington DC to Jackson, MS – Fire bombed & beaten – Robert Kennedy (Attorney General) – Federal marshalls sent – ICC prohibited segregation, sue

11. Civil Rights SNCC vs. SCLC MLK believed SNCC to confrontational SCLC & SNCC joined in Albany, Ga. (1961) – Demonstrations & boycotts – failed

12. Civil Rights Birmingham, Alabama (1963) “Bombingham” 16 th St. Church Marches Children’s March MLK arrested “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” Fire hoses Police dogs On television, media attention

13. Civil Rights JFK Acts because of Birmingham Proposed the 1963 Civil Rights Act Enforce 14 th and 15 th amendments Televised speech Plans for a “March on Washington”

14. Civil Rights Medgar Evers – Field Secretary of NAACP in Mississippi – Shot in his drive way – “Ghosts of Mississippi”

15. Civil Rights August 28, 1963 March on Washington Over 250,000 A. Philip Randolph MLK “I Have a Dream”“I Have a Dream”

16. JFK November 22, 1963 JFK assassinated

17. Civil Rights Johnson gets Congress to pass 1964 Civil Rights Act 1964 Civil Rights Act – Prohibited discrimination in employment and public accomidations (no more Jim Crow) – EEOC – DOJ to enforce laws – US government will protect black voting rights

18. Civil Rights Freedom Summer (1964) – Bob Moses – SNCC – Voter registration – Mississippi – White college students recruited – Schwerner, Cheney, and Goodman – FBI and US military sent in – Shot and beaten – Guility but not of murder

19. Civil Rights Selma, Alabama (1965) – Voting rights – 1 st attempt March 7 th Bloody Sunday No MLK

20. Civil Rights Selma, Alabama – 2 nd attempt – March 21, 1965 – 50 miles from Selma to Montgomery 50 miles from Selma to Montgomery – MLK – 25,000 walked 5 days – FBI and National Guard

21. Unit 7 CP United States History Civil Rights Part 2 1965 – Johnson proposes Voting Rights Act of 1965 – Eliminated literacy tests – US govt. registers to vote (power away from states) – Twenty-Fourth Amendment – Outlawed the Poll Tax

22. Civil Rights The North (Chicago) De facto segregation Where you live Northern cities Jobs Homes Poverty Change too slow SCLC doesn’t work

23. Civil Rights Nation of Islam – Elijah Muhammad – Islamic heritage – A black nation within the United States

24. Civil Rights Malcolm X – Black Nationalism – Separate themselves from white America – Broke away from Nation of Islam – “any means necessary” – Began to work with MLK – Assassinated February 21, 1965

25. Civil Rights Black Panthers – Black Nationalism & violent action – White flight – Inner cities growing – End de facto segregation – Ensure that black rights weren’t violated by racist cops – Build strong black communities – Fighting poverty – Food programs

26. Civil Rights Poverty – Riots – Violence – Summers of 1965 and 1967 – Detroit, Watts, Hough

27. Civil Rights Education – Key to fight poverty – Forced busing – Boston

28. Where Are We Now? 50 year anniversary De jure segregation gone De facto segregation still here 33.9% of children in poverty are black 24.2% of African Americans live in poverty