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 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. 1968 Olympic Games Mexico City, Mexico

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

9. Key events (p. 703- 722 & “Eyes on the Prize”) (Not listed chronologically on this slide!)
Assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Assassination of Malcolm X
Bloody Sunday (1st attempt Selma to Montgomery)
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 / Nashville march
James Meredith / college
Letter from a Birmingham Jail
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

10. Directions & Rubric for Civil Rights Timeline
pick 9 of the key events from the previous slide
put the events in chronological order on your timeline; each event should have the date and name of the event with a relevant picture on the front of the timeline; you will also have a more detailed description of the event; the more detailed description will only be visible on your timeline when you print your timeline
18 pts. for the 9 events (2 pts. each; 1 pt. for the picture and 1 pt. for the description) & 2 pts. for events being in chronological order; 20 pts. total for your checklist

11. Link to Create Time Line

12. Directions to Make Timeline
Your Name: your first and last name Project Title: Civil Rights Timeline ____________________________________________ Label: the date of the event; be as specific as possible Short Description: the name of your event from the list of choices Full Description: more detailed explanation of your event; use good sources to get your information Choose Image: upload a relevant picture that you saved on your school account

13. When Finished Making Timeline
click on FINISH, print out your timeline, and turn it in with your checklist
if you want to save your timeline (in case you lose your printed copy before you turn in your checklist) see the directions on the next slide for what to do
(you are not going to actually save your timeline; you it to your school ; you can access your timeline that way and print out another copy if you need to; all of this is explained on the next slide)

14. VERY IMPORTANT . . . But I didn’t finish & need to work on it later?!?
click on the SAVE button at the top
you will have the option to SAVE or SEND
click on SEND and it to your school ; do not click on SAVE it saves your timeline as a rwt file (which will only open unless a program to open rwt files is installed on your computer)
when you receive the it will give you a link to access your timeline; at the top of the page choose OPEN; find your timeline, open it, and add the rest of your information
when you are finished see the previous slide for printing out your timeline; remember if you are still not finished you need to repeat the process of sending your timeline to your again

15. What was the impact of the Civil Rights Movement on the United States?

16. Impact (p , 722 – 723, & 768 – 780)
A. end of de jure segregation; de facto?
B. Legislation
1. Civil Rights Act of
2. Voting Rights Act of
(poll tax – 24th Amendment 1964)
3. Civil Rights Act of
4. affirmative action -
C. inspired other minority groups
1. Latinos
a. equal opportunity & respect for culture
b. César Chávez / United Farm Workers
Organizing Committee (UFWOC)

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

18. women
a. equality / feminism
b. Betty Friedan / The Feminine Mystique (1963)
c. Gloria Steinem / Ms. Magazine
d. Roe v. Wade (1973) -
e. Equal Rights Amendment / Phyllis Schlafly

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

20. Civil Rights Music