1. The Civil Rights Movement
Crash Course 

2. Group Photo Analysis Activity 1st
7 Groups
Analyze your picture
Who? What? When? Where? Why?
Emotions?
Share with the Class

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6. Group 4

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9. Group 7

10. Civil Rights Movement When did it really begin?
The Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 began a long journey for the African-American population and the United States.
De jure segregation – imposed by law
De facto segregation – unwritten custom or tradition

11. Major Events of the Civil Rights Movement
Brown v. Board of Education – 1954
Jim Crow Laws
Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat on a bus in Mont., AL – 1955
Executive Order #10730 – Little Rock, Arkansas – 1957
Freedom Rides
March on Washington – 1963
Mississippi Burning – 1964
Civil Rights Act – 1964
Voting Rights Act
Emancipation Proclamation – 1863
13th, 14th & 15th Amendments
Plessy v. Ferguson – 1896

12. Ordered the desegregation of the military.
SSUSH22a -Explain the importance of President Truman's order to integrate the U.S. military & the federal government.
President Truman
Executive Order – 1948
Ordered the desegregation of the military.
US Armed Forces will be come one of the most integrated institutions in the USA.

13. Strom Thurmond ran for President in 1948, wanted to continue Jim Crow

14. SSUSH22b - Identify Jackie Robinson and the integration of baseball.
1947
Jackie Robinson joined the Brooklyn Dodgers.
1st African American to play major league baseball.
Faced death threats and bullying.
Trailer for the film – 42

15. SSUSH22c - Explain Brown v
SSUSH22c - Explain Brown v. Board of Education and efforts to resist the decision.
Plessy v. Ferguson, 1896
NAACP
Fought for equality for AA through court system
Thurgood Marshall
Headed legal team
Back ground to case…
Challenging “Separate but Equal” doctrine

17. Brown v. Board of Education, 1954
The Supreme Court’s unanimous decision outlawed racial segregation in public schools.
Is separate but equal constitutional? NO
“Does segregation of children in public schools solely on the basis of race…deprive the children of the minority group equal education opportunities? We believe that it does.”
Chief Justice Earl Warren
Thurgood Marshall will become a Supreme Court Justice in Washington!

18. Brown reactions…. Hernandez v. Texas KKK staged revival Brown II
Mexican Americans cannot be excluded from trial juries.
KKK staged revival
Brown II
Implement our decision throughout the USA with speed!
Little Rock 9– Central High School (p. 921)
Eisenhower used national guard (Gov. Faubus refused to uphold Brown ruling – Federalism, hello?!?) to escort them to school as a crowd screamed “lynch her!”

19. Arkansas Gov. Orval Faubas and Little Rock Nine

20. Hatred
Disdain

21. SSUSH22d Major Players in the CRM: Martin Luther King, JR.
Organized the Montgomery bus boycotts during Rosa Park’s struggle in the 1950s.
As a clergyman, he used his vision of nonviolent confrontations (followed Mohandas Gandhi).
He started the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, known as the SCLC.

23. SSUSH22d - Describe the significance of Martin Luther King, Jr
SSUSH22d - Describe the significance of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Letter from a Birmingham Jail & I have a dream speech.
Birmingham – most segregated city in the South.
Marches & Sit-ins
King participated and was arrested, wrote a letter from jail.
“For years now I have heard the word, “wait!” It rings in the ear of every Negro with piercing familiarity. This “Wait!” has almost always meant “Never”.
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24. SSUSH22d - Describe the significance of Martin Luther King, Jr
SSUSH22d - Describe the significance of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Letter from a Birmingham Jail & I have a dream speech.
Aug. 28, 1963, Martin Luther King, JR. delivers his “I Have a Dream Speech”
before 250,000 people
March on Washington,
the largest civil rights demonstration ever!
Let’s listen…

25. 1960: MLK, Jr. removing a burnt cross from his front yard

26. SSUSH22e - Describe the causes and consequences of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 & the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
Civil Rights Act 1964
Voting Rights Act 1965
In honor of the late JFK, President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the CRA into law.
The act prohibits discrimination in public places, provides for the integration of schools and other public facilities, and makes employment discrimination illegal.
This act outlaws the discriminatory voting practices adopted in many Southern states after the Civil War.
It made literacy tests illegal as a prerequisite for voting.
(in action)
It also provides for federally supervised elections.

27. Pres. Lyndon Johnson signs Civil Rights Bill

28. Met with some resistance….
1964
Hotel owner pouring acid in the water when black patrons swam in his pool.

29. Southern Christian Leadership Conference MLK, Jr. Mostly AA ministers
USH24.a Compare and contrast the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) tactics, including sit-ins, freedom rides, and changing composition.
SCLC
SNCC
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
MLK, Jr.
Mostly AA ministers
Sit-ins, marches, non-violence
Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee
Young people, B & W
Freedom Summer
Non-violent
Will eventually adopt difference methods

31. Other important people, places, & events in the Civil Rights Movement

32. New Voices, Malcolm X
Preached violence as a means of expression, he later (after a haaj) devoted himself to peace.
Gave voice to the Black Power Movement, urging blacks to reject white culture in favor of their own heritage.
Feb. 21, 1965, black gunmen assassinate former Nation of Islam leader Malcolm X at the Audubon Ballroom in Harlem.

33. Black Panthers
Activists staged antiwar protests and stood for the black cause.
Founded in ‘66 by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale.
Original purpose:
Protect African American neighborhoods from police brutality.
Part of the counter-culture.
Ideological differences led to decline.

34. John Carlos & Tommie Smith at the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City, while silver medalist Peter Norman supports wearing a human rights pin.

35. Even at the college level…
James Meredith made headlines when he tried to enroll in the all-white University of Mississippi.
June 11, 1963 Alabama Gov. George Wallace stands “in the schoolhouse door” at the Univ. of AL. His gesture fulfills a campaign promise to keep black students from enrolling there.

36. Loss of THE Leader: 24.d
King made another speech in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 3, 1968.
This is were he said, “We’ve got some difficult days ahead, but it really doesn’t matter to me now, because I’ve been to the mountaintop.”
The next evening, on April 4th, 1968, he was gunned down by James Earl Ray, as he stood on the balcony of his Memphis motel.
The country engaged in a week of looting, rioting, and burning as a result of King’s death.

38.  "Injustice anywhere is a _____ to justice everywhere".

39.  "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere".

40. Too many to name them all…
SNCC
SCLC
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Sit-ins
Freedom Rides
Selma
24th amendment
Black Panthers
Rosa Parks
Medgar Evers
Emmett Till
President Eisenhower
President Kennedy
President Johnson