1. Honors Chapters 21 The Civil Rights Movement (1954-1968) ( Civil Rights: The rights of personal liberty, guaranteed to U.S. citizens by the 13 th, 14 th, and 15 th Amendments and by acts of Congress.) I.The Fight Begins: Taking on Segregation (p. 696 – 699; 705 – 706) A. Segregation - 1. Civil Rights Act of 1875; unconstitutional in 1883 2. Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) - a. 14 th Amendment - b. Jim Crow laws -

2. "Come listen all you galls and boys, I'm going to sing a little song, My name is Jim Crow. Weel about and turn about and do jis so, Eb'ry time I weel about I jump Jim Crow."

3. http://watch.wqed.org/video/1337330740/

4. B.Desegregation 1. Brown v. Board of Education (1954) - a. N.A.A.C.P. (1909) / Thurgood Marshall b. separate can never be equal

5. 2.reaction a. Emmett Till (1955) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8QXNyCvDP4 b. Little Rock (1957) / George Wallace - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2a32Uc1oP7s c. Ruby Bridges (1960) – d. James Meredith (1962) -

7. II.The Fight Continues: Key Events in the Civil Rights Movement (p. 700 – 710) A. dejure segregation – B. Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955) - 1. Rosa Parks - 2. Martin Luther King Jr. / S.C.L.C. (1957) – a. nonviolent resistance - 3. Supreme Court outlaws bus segregation (1956)

8. C.sit-ins 1. CORE (1942) - 2. Greensboro, NC (1960) 3. SNCC - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCwz5-OFYmA D.freedom riders (1961) 1. violence 2. protection of U.S. marshals 3. banned segregation in all interstate travel facilities

9. E.Birmingham (1963) 1. Letter from the Birmingham Jail - 2. Children’s March / “Bull” Connor - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJ7k4wMdV5g 3. bombing of 16 th Street Baptist Church -

10. F.March on Washington (1963) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOtYYreHHZQ

11. G.Freedom Summer (1964) - 1. Robert Moses / Mississippi - 2. murder of 3 civil rights workers -

12. H. Civil Rights Act of 1964 I.Selma (1965) 1. Jim Clark / Jimmie Lee Jackson - 2. 1 st march (March 7 th ) / “Bloody Sunday” - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k598SPRGqiI&list=PL54E3F4805710A187 3. 2 nd march (March 21 st ) / Viola Liuzzo -

13. J. Voting Rights Act of 1965 - http://www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/tools.html http://www.docstoc.com/docs/26764147/1965-Alabama-Literacy- Test---PDF K. Civil Rights Act of 1968 - III.The Fight Continues: Challenges & Changes (p. 711 - 717) A. defacto segregation - 1. Watts Riot (1965) - 2. economic equality: opportunities in jobs, housing, & education

15. 3. Kerner Commission (1968) - “Our nation is moving toward two societies, one black, one white – separate and unequal.” B. alternatives to nonviolence 1. Nation of Islam (Elijah Muhammad) / Malcolm X - a. Organization for Afro American Unity / “Ballots or Bullets” - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBS416EZsKM

16. 2.Stokely Carmichael / Black Power “a call for black people to define their own goals... to lead their own organizations”

17. 3. Bobby Seale & Huey Newton / Black Panthers (1966)

18. IV. The Legacy