1. We Shall Overcome… The Civil Rights Movement

2. Social Inequalities After World War II Segregation Jim Crow Laws Discrimination in the Workplace

3. Segregation

5. Jim Crow Laws

6. Discrimination in the Workplace

7. Groups involved in the Civil Rights Movement

8. NAACP

9. National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Founded in 1909 Thurgood Marshall – legal counsel

10. African American Churches

11. Clergy became involved in the movement Way to generate support – Forums; planning; mobilization Locked out of traditional means

12. SCLC

13. Led by Martin Luther King Est. in 1957 Set out to eliminate segregation & encourage voter registration

14. SNCC

15. Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee Made up of primarily African American college students Desegregated public facilities Encouraged voter registration

16. Diane Nash Founder SNCC Freedom Riders Worked w/King Civil Rights Act of 1964

17. CORE

18. Congress of Racial Equality Founded in 1942 Freedom Riders Freedom Schools – Taught black history – Target of white mobs

19. Southern Resistance

20. Strom Thurmond 1948 Dixiecrat Continue racial segregation in the South & support Jim Crow laws

21. Eugene “Bull” Connor Police official in Birmingham KKK member Fire hoses & attack dogs

22. Black Power Movement In response to apparent failure of nonviolent protests More aggressive movement Stressed pride in African American cultural group – Racial distinctiveness

23. Black Panthers

24. Founded in 1966 by Malcolm X supporters Preached black power, black nationalism, & economic self- sufficiency Armed revolution

25. Black Power

26. Has many meanings – Physical self-defense & violence – African-Americans should control the social, political, & economic direction of their struggle

27. Stokely Carmichael Leader of SNCC in 1966 Honorary Prime Minister of Black Panthers

28. How it all began…

29. Jackie Robinson

30. Truman President’s Commission on Civil Rights

32. Brown v. Board of Education (1954)

33. Thurgood Marshall

34. Rosa Parks

36. Montgomery Bus Boycott

37. Martin Luther King, Jr.

38. Desegregation Begins

39. Clinton 12

40. Governor Clement

41. Little Rock Nine

42. Little Rock, Arkansas

43. George Wallace

46. Sit-ins

48. Violence Erupts

49. Freedom Riders

51. James Meredith

53. Tension Mounts in Birmingham

55. Birmingham Bombings

56. Selma March

57. MLK, Jr. Assassinated

58. Malcolm X

59. Black Panthers

60. 1968 Olympics Black Power Salute

61. Civil Rights Legislation Brown v. Board of Education (1954) 24 th Amendment (1964) Gideon v. Wainwright (1963) Civil Rights Act (1964) Voting Rights Act (1965) Miranda v. Arizona (1966)

62. Tennessee & Civil Rights

63. Albert Gore, Sr.

64. Estes Kefauver

65. Nashville Lunch Counters

66. Memphis