1. The Civil Rights Movement

2. JIM CROW LAWS

3. JIM CROW LAWS

4. JIM CROW LAWS
“Jim Crow” America

5. JIM CROW LAWS

6. Separate but equal was found… UNCONSTITUTIONAL
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas (1954)
Linda Brown attempted to integrate a school in Kansas; she was denied entry. The NAACP took the case to the Supreme Court and sued under the EPC.
Separate but equal was found…
UNCONSTITUTIONAL

7. After effects
White racists did not accept this ruling without a fight, and some turned out to jeer and threaten black students who attended schools that had formerly been for whites only. The most famous and extreme confrontation broke out at Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, in President Eisenhower had to take control of the Arkansas National Guard and order them to protect the black students.

9. “Tides of
Change”

10. CIVIL RIGHTS LEADERS MEDGER EVERS Martin Luther King Jr.
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MEDGER EVERS
Martin Luther King Jr.
Bobby Seale and Huey Newton
Malcolm X

12. CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE Selma Protesting Peacefully
Not supporting a government that mistreats its people.

14. “WE SHALL OVERCOME”

15. THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT 1964 * Outlaws arbitrary discrimination in voting
* Bans discrimination in public
accommodations
Prohibits states from banning access to public facilities bc of race
Allows for desegregation of schools
Loss of funding for government agencies that discriminate
Started equal opportunity employment

16. VOTER’S RIGHTS ACT OF 1965 CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 1968
Banned literacy tests
Required 50% registration rates.
Sent agents to start registering people in the south.
States with less than 50% were subject to scrutiny.
CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 1968
Ended discrimination in housing, mortgages