2. The road to brown Civil Rights Movement

3. Since reconstruction.. The process for equality was slow moving. Brown vs. Board of Education was what sparked the Civil Rights Movement. o Montgomery Bus Boycott o Protests in the South

4. Important tools used for equality “Demonstrations and pressures of the Cold War compelled high government officials to abandon their early caution.” NAACP’s members across the south and D.C. This is seen on newly invented television. Organization was effective amongst activist groups. o Families o Churches o Voluntary associations o Political organizations o Women’s clubs o Labor Unions o College Organizations

5. White Middle Class Life The goal was to move to the suburbs, and “keep up with the Jones”. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBo_G HcLB0k

6. Jim didn’t die after WWII.. Despite the strides made during WWII, Jim Crow was still waiting when our soldiers came home. Shelley v. Kramer made it to where no one could be denied the right to buy what ever house they wanted, but violence was still present.

7. Constance Baker Motley and Black Lawyers in the South Read the section above on pages 549-551. List two specific examples of when African Americans were denied the right to an education in the US during the 1950s.

8. Brown and the start of a revolution… On Feb 27, 1942, NAACP attorney Leon A. Ransom was attacked by former deputy sheriff in the hall of the Davidson County Courthouse in Nashville, Tennessee. o “We are going to teach these northern Negroes not to to come down here raising fancy court questions.” It was no less difficult for black woman lawyers to venture into the south in search of justice. o To them Negro women were either mammies, maids, mistresses.

9. Roderick W. Elliot In the late 1940s, the black parents of Scotts Branch School in Clarendon County, South Carolina, approached Roderick W. Elliott, the chairman of the school board, with a modest request to allow their child to ride the bus instead of walk to school. o Elliot replied: “We ain’t got no money to buy a bus for young niger children” 3Elliot says no. Briggs v. Elliot Brown v. Board of Ed. Civil Rights Movement

10. Brown v. Board Distinct Effect “To separate them from others of similar age and qualifications solely because of their race generates a feeling of inferiority as to the status in the community that may affect their hearts and minds in a way unlikely ever to be undone….We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of “separate but equal” has no place. Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.” --Chief Justice Earl Warren May 17, 1954

11. Brown II… A year after the Brown case the Supreme Court issued another order (Brown II) o The States should also follow the educational ruling that separate is not equal in education. That is outrageous!!!!

12. Massive White Residence White supremacy in the South was shrinking. Some believed Blacks were destined for their position Biblically. Some believed that the rulings being made by the judges came from Moscow. Blacks were soon fired from jobs, and were refused credit and loans from banks.