1. African American Civil Rights
Movement

2. Previous Black Civil Rights Struggles
Quickly Review
Previous Black Civil Rights Struggles
(1850’s – 1940’s)

3. Starts push for black rights
Pre Civil War
Abolition Movement
Starts push for black rights
Reconstruction Era
has mixed legacy
13th, 14th & 15th Amendments passed
Federal Gov’t mainly ignores
black civil rights during “Gilded Age”
Jim Crow Laws
become entrenched
Plessy v. Ferguson
Supports segregation

4. Progressive Era Black Civil Rights Activist Differ in Goals & Tactics
WEB DuBois
Booker T. Washington
Progressive Era Black Civil Rights Activist
Differ in Goals & Tactics

5. 1920’s & 1930’s
NAACP
Harlem
Renaissance
Marcus Garvey
UNIA
“New Negro”

6. “Double V” of the 1940’s Promotes African-American Rights

7. Still, “Jim Crow” laws strong into the mid 20th Century

8. II. Non-Violent Civil Disobedience (mid 1950’s & early ’60’s) “Grassroots” action garners media attention and lead to federal involvement & legal change

9. Emmett Till Trial

10. Montgomery Bus Boycotts
Martin Luther King
Rosa Parks
SCLC
Civil Disobedience

11. Little Rock Nine Confrontation Results from Brown v. Board
decision
Dixiecrats Critical
of violation
of “states Rights”

12. Lunch Counter Sit-Ins
Organized by
CORE & SNCC

13. Freedom
Rides

14. Boycotts/Marches & Reactions

15. Birmingham Church Bombing

16. Freedom Summer
& Civil Rights
Workers Murdered

17. “Bloody Sunday” & Selma March

18. High Tide of Non-Violent Black Civil Rights Movement
March on Washington
&
“I Have a Dream” Speech
Landmark Legislation:
Civil Rights Act (1964)
Voting Rights Act (1965)
24th Amendment (1965)
Limits of Success???
Laws change faster than attitudes…rising expectations leads to growing frustration by late 1960’s