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Civil Rights Movement

1. Segregation is legal – “Separate, but equal” 2. Jim Crow laws 3. Goals of NAACP: 1) End Segregation 2) Protect voting right in the South

4. Thurgood Marshall – chief counsel for NAACP

5. Oliver Hill – Richmond attorney who headed legal defense team in VA 6. Desegregation of Prince Edward County Schools

7. Brown v. Board of Ed. Of Topeka (1954) Supreme Court case – segregation in public schools was unconstitutional & must integrate

8. VA & other southern states adopted policy of Massive Resistance

9. Massive Resistance: closed schools rather than integrate 1) White parents formed private schools 2) “White Flight” from cities to the suburbs

10. Desegregate and Integrate = black and white children go to school together 11. YES 12. W&L integrated in 1971.

Dr. King’s philosophy of non-violence (borrowed from Ghandi) Protesters don’t fight back & don’t hate their attackers

14. Montgomery Bus Boycott (Alabama, 1955) 1) Rosa Parks arrested for refusing to give up seat on a bus 2) Dr. King organized a boycott 3) Buses were desegregated

14. “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” Blacks cannot wait any longer for rights

16. Civil disobedience = refuse to obey unjust laws (Ex. Sit-ins)

17. Dr. King organized the march -pressure JFK for a civil rights bill 18. 250,000 at Lincoln Memorial 19. Dr. King = “I have a dream”

20. JFK was assassinated & LBJ became president 21. Lyndon B. Johnson helped pass civil rights laws.

22. Civil Rights Act of 1964: Prohibits discrimination based on race, religion, national origin, or gender in public facilities Killed Jim Crow laws

23. March in Selma drew attention to lack of voting rights -Marchers attacked by policemen -Footage horrified Americans

25. Result: percent of black voters increased dramatically 24. Voting Rights Act of 1965: Protected blacks’ voting rights (15th Amend.) 1) Outlawed literacy tests 2) Federal workers registered black voters 25. Result: percent of black voters increased dramatically