1. The Civil Rights Movement: 1953 - 1969

2. Pre-Movement Conditions in the South Watch: “Never Lose Sight of Freedom” “Rights Denied,” “A Change is Gonna Come”

3. The Beginnings of the Movement Why a Civil Rights Movement now? Brown v. Board of Education, 1954

6. 1955-1965 The Early Movement

7. The Role of Birmingham, Alabama The Role of Churches  Community  Worship  Support Black Businesses  Meeting place for movement business Leadership  Fred Shuttlesworth – “we cannot brag for our success because we are simply doing God’s will”  James Abernathy

8. Montgomery Bus Boycott -1955 Rosa Parks refuses to leave her seat Boycott begins Carpool System

9. Emmett Till Case, 1955

10. Emergence of Martin Luther King “Soul Force” 1957: Founds SCLC Forms a partnership with Alabama leaders

11. September, 1957 – The Little Rock Nine

12. 1960 – Sit Ins Begin February: North Carolina April: Formation of SNCC

13. 1961: Freedom Rides CORE formed

14. October 1961 James Meredith breaks the color barrier at Universities

15. 1963: Birmingham Demonstrations in Birmingham Begin

16. King in Jail “Letter from a Birmingham Jail”

17. May 1963 Children’s Crusade in Birmingham The Role of the Radio The role of the church

18. June 11, 1963 Wallace at the University of Alabama “I say segregation now! Segregation tomorrow! Segregation Forever!” ~ Alabama governor George Wallace, 1963

19. August 28, 1963: I Have a Dream!

20. September 15, 1963 Church Bombings

21. Freedom Summer - 1964 Intent was to help blacks register without fear of intimidation or unfair tests Death of Civil Rights Workers in Philadelphia, Mississippi

22. Voter Registration as a Result of the Freedom Summer

23. 1964: Bullets or Ballots? Rise of Malcolm X

24. 1965 – The March from Selma to Montgomery February 1, 1965

25. March 7, 1965: Bloody Sunday

26. The Later Movement 1966: the fight for defacto segregation

27. 1966: The Black Panther Movement Begins

28. Mexico City, 1968 Race Riots emerge in inner cities 1966: Black Power Emerges

29. 1967: Thurgood Marshall Legal cases pre-Supreme Court Major Supreme Court decisions

30. 1968: The Death of Martin Luther King, Jr.

31. March 1, 1968: Kerner Commission

32. Results of the Civil Rights Movement See pg. 920 in text

33. Controversies over Civil Rights Segregation was still the rule until the 1970s Affirmative Action

34. Justice is Served 2001: Sixteenth Street Baptist Church Bombers Rearrested and tried