We Shall Overcome… The Civil Rights Movement
Social Inequalities After World War II Segregation Jim Crow Laws Discrimination in the Workplace
Segregation
Jim Crow Laws
Discrimination in the Workplace
Groups involved in the Civil Rights Movement
NAACP
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Founded in 1909 Thurgood Marshall – legal counsel
African American Churches
Clergy became involved in the movement Way to generate support – Forums; planning; mobilization Locked out of traditional means
SCLC
Led by Martin Luther King Est. in 1957 Set out to eliminate segregation & encourage voter registration
SNCC
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee Made up of primarily African American college students Desegregated public facilities Encouraged voter registration
Diane Nash Founder SNCC Freedom Riders Worked w/King Civil Rights Act of 1964
CORE
Congress of Racial Equality Founded in 1942 Freedom Riders Freedom Schools – Taught black history – Target of white mobs
Southern Resistance
Strom Thurmond 1948 Dixiecrat Continue racial segregation in the South & support Jim Crow laws
Eugene “Bull” Connor Police official in Birmingham KKK member Fire hoses & attack dogs
Black Power Movement In response to apparent failure of nonviolent protests More aggressive movement Stressed pride in African American cultural group – Racial distinctiveness
Black Panthers
Founded in 1966 by Malcolm X supporters Preached black power, black nationalism, & economic self- sufficiency Armed revolution
Black Power
Has many meanings – Physical self-defense & violence – African-Americans should control the social, political, & economic direction of their struggle
Stokely Carmichael Leader of SNCC in 1966 Honorary Prime Minister of Black Panthers
How it all began…
Jackie Robinson
Truman President’s Commission on Civil Rights
Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
Thurgood Marshall
Rosa Parks
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Desegregation Begins
Clinton 12
Governor Clement
Little Rock Nine
Little Rock, Arkansas
George Wallace
Sit-ins
Violence Erupts
Freedom Riders
James Meredith
Tension Mounts in Birmingham
Birmingham Bombings
Selma March
MLK, Jr. Assassinated
Malcolm X
Black Panthers
1968 Olympics Black Power Salute
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)
Tennessee & Civil Rights
Albert Gore, Sr.
Estes Kefauver
Nashville Lunch Counters
Memphis