1. What are Civil Rights? (p. 700 – 701)
Chapter 21 & Chapter 23 sections 1 & 2 The Civil Rights Movement ( ) & Impact on Other Minority Groups (1960s s)
What are Civil Rights? (p. 700 – 701)
A. rights of personal liberty guaranteed to U.S. citizens by
the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments and acts of Congress

2. What are Civil Rights & how were African Americans being denied their Civil Rights?

3. Amendments denied to African Americans (primarily in South)
1. 14th Amendment -
a. Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) -
(1). “separate but equal”
(2). led to Jim Crow Laws / de jure segregation
2. 15th Amendment -
a. legally - poll tax, literacy test
b. illegally – threats, physical violence

4. What groups tried to gain Civil Rights for African Americans and how did they try to get them?

5. Civil Rights organizations (p. 702 – 707; 719 – 721))
A. used the court system
1. NAACP – Thurgood Marshall; Brown
v. Board of Education (1954)
B. used nonviolence; examples?
1. CORE – James Farmer
2. SCLC – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
3. SNCC – Ella Baker; student led (Diane Nash, John Lewis,
etc.)

6. more militant Civil Rights organizations
1. North – de facto segregation & economic inequality
2. blacks separate from white society / armed self-defense
a. Nation of Islam – Elijah Muhammad,
Malcolm X (changed)
b. SNCC after 1965 – Stokely Carmichael /
Black Power
3. political party / fight police brutality in
ghettos
a. Black Panthers – Huey Newton, Bobby Seale

7. What were some key events in the Civil Rights Movement?

8. Key events (p. 703- 722 & “Eyes on the Prize”) (Not listed chronologically on this slide!)
Assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Assassination of Malcom X
Bloody Sunday
Bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church
Children’s March in Birmingham
Creation of the Mississippi Freedom Democrat Party
Freedom Riders
Freedom Summer
Investigation of the Kerner Commission
Nashville sit-ins / march
James Meredith / college
Letter from a Birmingham Jail
Little Rock / Little Rock Nine / high school
March from Selma to Montgomery (2nd attempt / completed)
March on Washington
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Murder of Emmett Till
Murder of Goodman, Chaney, and Schwerner
Murder of Medgar Evers
Ruby Bridges / first grade
Sit-in in Greensboro, North Carolina
Watts Riot

9. Rubric for Civil Rights Timeline
pick 9 of the key events from the previous slide
put the events in order on your timeline (see next slide for link to timeline)
each event should have the date and name of the event with a relevant picture on the front of the timeline & a more detailed description of the event that will show up on the back of the timeline when you print it out
18 pts. for the 9 events & 2 pts. for events being in chronological order; 20 pts. total

10. Link to Create Civil Rights Time Line

11. What was impact of the Civil Rights Movement?

12. Impact (p , 722 – 723, & 768 – 780)
A. end of de jure segregation; de facto?
B. Legislation
1. Civil Rights Act of 1964
2. Voting Rights Act of 1965
3. Civil Rights Act of 1968
4. affirmative action
C. inspired other minority groups
1. Latinos
a. equal opportunity & respect for culture
b. César Chávez / United Farm Workers Organizing Committee

13. Native Americans
a. more autonomy
b. won land back or cash settlement

14. women
a. equality
b. Betty Friedan / The Feminine Mystique
c. Gloria Steinem / Ms. Magazine
d. Roe v. Wade -
e. Equal Rights Amendment / Phyllis Schlafly

15. Critical Thinking
How do you see what we are studying now as a consequence of prior events & is there relevance to today?

16. Civil Rights Music