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Civil Rights Movement June 2015. Overview  Key Concepts  Origins/Segregation  School Desegregation  The Montgomery Bus Boycott  Sit-Ins  Freedom.

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1 Civil Rights Movement June 2015

2 Overview  Key Concepts  Origins/Segregation  School Desegregation  The Montgomery Bus Boycott  Sit-Ins  Freedom Riders  Desegregating Southern Universities  March on Washington  Voter Registration  The End of the Movement

3 Origins For African Americans, the path from slavery to full civil rights was long and difficult. Several developments during the 1950s and 1960s legally guaranteed full citizenship: Civil Rights for African Americans Development: Protests Sit Ins Montgomery Bus Boycott Development: Johnson Presidency Civil Rights Act of 1964 Voting Rights Act of 1965 Development: Warren Court Brown v. Board of Education

4 Segregation  Civil Rights movement was a political, legal, and social struggle to gain full citizenship rights for African Americans  Challenged segregation  Movement challenged segregation and discrimination with a variety of activities:  Protest marches  Boycotts  Refusal to abide by segregation laws

5 Segregation  Jim Crow Laws  Followed Reconstruction  Disenfranchisement  Denial of voting rights  Between 1890 – 1910 all Southern States passed laws imposing requirements for voting  15 th Amendment  Poll Tax  Literacy Test

6 Segregation  Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)  “Separate but equal”  Niagara Movement (1905)  W.E.B. Du Bois  NAACP (1909)  National Association for the Advancement of Colored People  National Urban League (1910)  Help transition to urban life  CORE (1942)  Congress of Racial Equality

7 School Desegregation  Thurgood Marshall and the NAACP  Overturned many forms of discrimination  Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954)  Warren Court  Racially segregated was unconstitutional  Many opposition to desegregation  Little Rock Nine  Schools were desegregated only in theory  Racially segregated neighborhoods  segregated schools  Busing in the 1970s  Boston Busing

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