Unit 9: Chapters 24 & 26

Identify the key leaders of the Civil Rights movement Explain the origins of the Civil Rights movement Describe and explain the key events in the Civil Rights movement List and explain the multiple methods used to gain civil rights

Origins Plessy v Ferguson Brown v Board of Education NAACP; CORE; SCLC Montgomery Bus Boycott Martin Luther King JR Eisenhower and Civil Rights Believed segregation had to end gradually as values changed Crisis in Little Rock - st_safety_mode=1 st_safety_mode=1 Civil Rights Act of 1957

Sit-ins Greensboro NC Jesse Jackson SNCC & Ella Baker The Freedom Riders Interstate segregation- Eugene “Bull” Connor JFK & Civil Rights Robert Kennedy got MLK Jr. out of jail ( ml) ml Thurgood Marshall James Meredith Violence & disorder would get federal government involved

Civil Rights Act of 1964 March on Washington- I have a Dream Speech fety_mode=1 Kennedy Assassinated Nov 1963 LBJ pushes through Legislation Segregation illegal in public places Equal access to facilities End discrimination in work place Voting Rights 24 Amendment- ends poll taxes Selma Alabama “Bloody Sunday” Voting Rights Act of 1965 Federal examiners to register voters Literacy tests gone

Identify Key leaders of the Civil rights movement Describe and explain key events in the Civil Rights movement Compare and contrast Martin Luther King Jr. with Malcolm X List and explain the multiple methods used to gain civil rights

Problems facing Urban African Americans Racism Watts Riot-Los Angeles Kerner Commission- “separate and unequal” Shift to Economic Rights Black Power 1.Physical self defense 2.African Americans should control the social, political and economic direction of their struggle 3.Pride in African American culture Malcolm X & Black Panthers Nation of Islam or Black Muslims African Americans should separate themselves from whites; form self governing communities

Assassination of MLK Jr. Went to Memphis TN to support a strike of African American sanitation workers James Earl Ray Pushed through Civil Rights Act of 1968

Impact of Counterculture Movement that challenged the American political and social system and conventional middle class values. The Beatles Bob Dylan Jimi Hendrix Woodstock rsist_safety_mode=1

Identify key leaders of the Civil Rights movement Analyze the progress that was made through the Civil Rights movement Give examples of other groups that fought for their civil rights.

Women’s movement reawakens Feminism-belief that men and women should be equal politically economically and socially Title VII Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan National Organization for Women (NOW) Success & Failures Title IX 1973 Roe v Wade Equal Rights Amendment- failed in 1982 Income gaps, low level jobs

Affirmative Action Actively recruit African Americans University of California Regents vs Bakke- reverse discrimination Jesse Jackson- PUSH Hispanic Americans Organize Came to work farms during WWII Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta United Farm Workers Union Bilingual Education Act Native Americans Raise their voice Horrible living conditions, unemployment, hunger Want independence; not assimilation Indian Civil Rights Act Reservations protected Bill of Rights; local law is recognized