1. Chapter 14 The Civil Rights Movement 1945– 1975 Who is this woman ? Why is this man impt ?

2. The Civil Rights Movement 1954 – 1968 Section 1 : Early Demands for Equality Jim Crow Laws –de jure segregation Supreme Court declares segregation constitutional ( legal). Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) African Americans had same rights,but used separate facilities that were “EQUAL “. Laws that segregated African Americans. Segregated areas in buses,trains, parks, pools, restaurants & other public facilities. Poorer quality than White facilities. De facto Segregation Segregation by unwritten custom or tradition, e.g. – neighborhoods, dances churches restaurants & other public facilities.

3. New Political Power  Great Migration – African Americans moved to Northern cities, were allowed to vote. The Democratic party listened to their concerns/issues and so African Americans registered as Democrats.  Before WW I, most African Americans lived in the South

4. Push for Desegregation  CORE- Congress of Racial Equality founded by James Farmer/George Houser. Believed in NONVIOLENCE.  During WW II, African Americans began to demand more rights,esp in the military. Began to use SIT-INS as form of protest. Attempted to desegregate restaurants that refused to serve African-Americans. Intended to shame restaurant managers into allowing African Americans to be served the same as White customers.

5. Brown v. Board of Education.  Linda Brown – African American young girl denied the right to attend her neighborhood school in Topeka, Kansas.  Supreme Court unanimously ruled segregation was unconstitutional & violated equal protection clause of 14th amendment.  Thurgood Marshall – NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) attorney argued before Supreme Court. for end of segregation in public schools.

6. REVIEW Explain the relationship between 2 court cases – Plessy v Ferguson & Brown v. Board of Education Explain the Great Migration – what happened to the population in the South, in the North ? Explain the difference between Jim Crow Laws and De Facto Segregation, give an example of each.

7. Little Rock Arkansas Court order requiring 9 African-American students to be admitted to all white Central H. S. Eisenhower sends federal troops in to protect students. Gov. Orval Faubus, -  Ordered to remove the troops, he left the school to the mobs of angry protesters who vandalized the school and scared students.  Was seeking re election. Although a moderate on racial issues he wanted to win the support of White voters.  Ordered troops form AK National Guard to prevent African American students from entering school to register. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xERXusiEszs

8. Montgomery Bus Boycott Boycott by African Americans of the bus system throughout Montgomery Alabama. Response to Rosa Parks being arrested. Led by 26 year old Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Start of new era in civil rights movement – organized protests, defying laws that required segregation and demanded to be treated the same as whites. Ph.D. in theology. Followed teachings of Indian leader Gandhi – NONVIOLENCE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJ1OO5iBWCQ

9. African American Churches Played critical role in the civil rights movement. SCLC – Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Led by African American ministers ( Martin Luther King) :  goal to eliminate segregation from American society  Encourage African Americans to vote.  Challenged segregation at voting booths, public transportation, housing and accommodations.