1. Origins of the Civil Rights Movement
Objective: Identify factors that contributed to the Civil Rights Movement; Explain the significance of Brown v. Board of Education

2. Segregation Americans began to see racism as evil
War had made African Americans more determined to win equality at home in jobs, housing, and education .

3. African Americans gained important resources to help fight segregation.

4. CORE
Congress of Racial Equality founded in 1942 in Chicago

5. Carried out protests in public places that refused to admit or serve African Americans
Helped end segregation in restaurants and other public places in many Northern cities

6. Explain Plessy v. Ferguson
Louisiana law called for ‘equal but separate accommodations for the white and colored races’ on trains.

7. June 7, 1892 – Homer Plessy took a seat in a train car reserved for whites. Conductor told him to move, and he refused.
Plessy convicted of breaking the “separate car” law.

8. State governments across the south applied decision to all areas of life.
“Jim Crow” laws forced African Americans to use separate restaurants, hotels, train cars, parks, schools, and hospitals.

9. Supreme Court decision – “separate but equal” facilities for blacks and whites did not violate the Constitution.

10. Brown v. Board of Education
Read pages 815 – 816
Brown v. Board was an important event in the civil rights movement. As you read, list information about the event in a bubble map containing the following information:
People, The Argument, The Ruling, Results of the Ruling

13. People: Thurgood Marshall (chief lawyer for the NAACP), Linda Brown and her family

14. The Argument: “Separate but equal” schools were inherently unequal; segregated schools denied African Americans the “equal protection of the laws” guaranteed by the 14th Amendment

15. The Ruling:. unanimous court ruled that segregation in education was unconstitutional

16. Results of the Ruling: schools must integrate; Court ordered public schools to desegregate “with all deliberate speed”

18. Little Rock Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus was against integration
orders National Guard troops to prevent African- American students from entering Central High School

19. Federal judge ruled governor had broken the law; Faubus removed the National Guard
Eisenhower sent federal troops to protect the students