1. The Decade of Change: Part 1 Week 2-7
US History 2
Ms. Lyons

2. Civil Rights 1947: Jackie Robinson plays MLB
Brooklyn Dodgers
1948: Truman ends segregation in military ✓
1954: Brown vs. Board of Education *
Stop segregation in schools!
: Montgomery Bus Boycott *
1957: Eisenhower uses National Guard to enforce desegregation *

3. Earl Warren’s Supreme Court
Increased rights for African-Americans
Brown v. BoE *
Linda Brown (young, black girl wanted to go to all-white school)
NAACP joined the case
Reversed Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
Desegregated schools
Little Rock, AK *
Governor of Arkansas used troops to STOP blacks students from going to a white school
President Eisenhower took federal control of troops & told them to look up Brown v. BoE

4. Activism: Civil Rights Movement
Montgomery Bus Boycott *
Rosa Parks started it in 1955
Lasted 381 days
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. becomes a leader
Follows Gandhi & Thoreau’s “civil disobedience”
Freedom Rides
Tested desegregation laws

5. Different Ideas Martin Luther King Jr. Malcolm X SCLC
Civil disobedience
led marches, boycotts…
Malcolm X
Black power, black nationalism
“By any means necessary”
Violence /force

6. Activism: Civil Rights Movement …
James Meredith sues University of Mississippi (Ole Miss)
HE WON - 1st black man admitted to the school
Bullied by other students the entire time
He graduated!
JFK sent in federal troops to help calm campus
Greensboro, NC sit-ins (1960)
Started with 4 black college freshmen
The store refused to serve them. They sat.

7. “It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.”
Birmingham, AL protests (1963)
Broken up with hoses & dogs
Scenes on TV across the US (won support)
Dr. King went to jail
Medgar Evers (1963) murdered outside of his home
Worked for the NAACP
University of Alabama tried to stop blacks from attending
JFK sent troops to help black students
March on Washington
Supported JFK’s civil rights bill
“I Have a Dream” speech given by Dr. King
Shortly after, King was assassinated

8. EFFECT: Civil Rights Act of 1964
JFK dies, but President Johnson signs his bill
Protects voting, desegregation, equal job opportunities
Voting Rights Acts of 1965
Johnson passed this after Southerners ignored the Civil Rights Act
No literacy tests or poll taxes allowed

9. Nominations for “Best in Civil Rights”