Film-MLK and the Civil Rights Movement Define segregation Describe Brown v. the Board of Education Describe the Montgomery Bus Boycott Describe the Little Rock Nine Describe the Greensboro Sit-Ins Film-MLK and the Civil Rights Movement

What do we think we know? What do we want to know?

Definitions Segregation Integration racism

Think About it…. How would you feel if.. How would you feel if you had to enter a restaurant from the back? …could only go to schools where kids the same color of skin attended? …could only sit in certain places? …Do you think that is equal?

Segregation Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) http://www.teachertube.com/viewVideo.php?video_id=139931&title=Civil_Rights_Movement Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) -- “separate but equal” facilities = legal

Segregation is….. The separation of things Primary Source Something real from that time period Plessy V. Ferguson Court case that said things were to be Separate, but equal Brown. V. Board of Education 1954 NAACP Montgomery Bus Boycott 1955 Little Rock Nine Greensboro Sit-In

Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) -- “separate but equal” facilities = legal

Brown v. Board of Education Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kans., case decided by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1954. Linda Brown was denied admission to her local elementary school in Topeka because she was black. In Topeka, Kansas, a black third-grader named Linda Brown had to walk one mile through a railroad switchyard to get to her black elementary school, even though a white elementary school was only seven blocks away. Linda's father, Oliver Brown, tried to enroll her in the white elementary school, but the principal of the school refused. Brown went to McKinley Burnett, the head of Topeka's branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and asked for help. The NAACP was eager to assist the Browns, as it had long wanted to challenge segregation in public schools. With Brown's complaint, it had "the right plaintiff at the right time." [4] Other black parents joined Brown, and, in 1951, the NAACP requested an injunction that would forbid the segregation of Topeka's public schools. [5]

1955 Montgomery, Alabama Bus Boycott Rosa Parks 55,000 African Americans boycotted the bus system for 381 days by using a car pool system. Martin Luther King, Jr. becomes the leader of the Civil Rights Movement Bus Boycott Pictures of people arrested

Rosa Parks Point of View Primary Sources Lots of primary sources http://www.archives.state.al.us/teacher/rights.html

“Little Rock Nine” 1957 (Little Rock, Ark.) Formerly all-white Central High School learns that integration is easier said than done. Nine black students are blocked from entering the school on the orders of Governor Orval Faubus. President Eisenhower sends federal troops and the National Guard to intervene on behalf of the students, who become known as the "Little Rock Nine."

1960 Greensboro Sit In We were there Secondary Source by Bryan Palmer

Civil Rights Movement http://www. neok12 March on Washington Brown V. Board of Education of Topeka Birmingham Campaign ‘Little Rock Nine’ Rosa Parks and Montgomery Bus Boycott Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated March from Selma to Montgomery Civil Rights Act passed ‘Freedom Rides’ Voting Rights Act passed Greensboro Sit in

March on Washington