1. Civil Rights Part 3 Identify and explain the importance of each event (How did each event help the Civil Rights movement gain support around the country?) –Little Rock 9 –Sit-Ins –Freedom Riders –Letter from a Birmingham Jail –Birmingham Children's Protest

2. Little Rock, Arkansas- (1957) after Brown v. schools in the south were integrating as slow as possible Little Rock 9- nine black students were to enroll at Central HS –Gov. Faubus- called in the national guard to keep the students OUT First Day of School- 1000 angry whites jeered the students –TV captured the scene and made the nation sensitive to Civil Rights –US Army- TV forced President Eisenhower to react, sent in the troops to protect the students for 1 year What has changed in the US that forced the President to react and protect these students? Why didn’t the Federal Government do anything before to protect black rights?

3. If you could have been a part of the Civil Rights movement, what is something you and your friends could have done to protest and bring attention the injustice of segregation? Greensboro, NC (1960)- lunch counters were segregated Sit-in- 4 college students sat down and asked for service –*TV captured whites beating, insulting, and trying to provoke the protestors who refused to strike back –*inspired others (by end of 1960 50,000 people had demonstrated in sit ins, 3000 went to jail)

4. Imagine that you took a bus from CA to Florida. When you leave CA there is no segregated facilities but as you reach the south, white riders are allowed to eat in restaurants at stops but minority riders are forced to order their food to go and eat outside on the curb. Explain what is particularly unfair about this type of segregation? Freedom Riders- (1961) black and white civil rights advocates who rode around the South in buses focusing attention on segregated interstate bus stops –*met by mobs (one bus was burned, police refused to protect protestors in many cities) –*forced Pres. Kennedy to send US Marshalls to protect the riders When President Kennedy sends in the US Marshalls to protect the Freedom Riders, what new power is getting involved in the Civil Rights movement that was absent before the 1960’s? –Fed. Gov. and JFK now involved in Civil Rights movement)

5. Imagine you are accepted into UCLA but are told that you can’t attend because of your race. What is so particularly unfair about this type of segregation at the university level, even more so than segregating public high schools? James Meredith (1962) applied to attend school at all white Univ. of Miss (Ole Miss), Gov. personally blocked Meredith from entering school –*JFK sent US Marshalls to protect Meredith –*Riots broke out on campus that resulted in two deaths (Army was sent in to protect the US Marshalls) Analyze why white in Miss is so passionate about preventing blacks from attending a public university?

6. Birmingham, Al. (1963) most segregated city in America and most racial violence (18 bombings from 1957-1963) MLK- flew to Birmingham to hold meetings and target Birmingham until it desegregated –*Letter From A Birmingham Jail- King arrested in protest and defended use of Civil Disobedience as some said King was moving to slow Imagine if blacks decided to ignore MLK’s strategy of peaceful protest and began to fight back against whites? *choice he warned was his way of peaceful protest or blood in the streets if black militants gained more support

7. Children Protest- 1000+ Af/Am children marched, police attacked protestors with dogs, firehouses, and clubs –TV captured the violence committed by the police and fire department against young protestors and millions saw the beatings (and heard children scream) *Birmingham soon desegregated and was a major civil rights victory –Explain how these images really show the segregationists to be un- American? Think about what kinds of countries or governments you would expect their police to carry out these atrocities?