1. THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT

2. Problems It Addressed Addressed problems facing African Americans like Addressed problems facing African Americans like Racial Segregation Racial Segregation Disfranchisement Disfranchisement Economic Oppression Economic Oppression Violence Violence

3. Goals of the Movement Improve the lives of African Americans and achieve equality Improve the lives of African Americans and achieve equality First focused on attaining equal rights through desegregation and the passage of civil rights laws First focused on attaining equal rights through desegregation and the passage of civil rights laws Some will later seek black self-sufficiency, end of police brutality, spiritual improvement, and equal economic opportunities Some will later seek black self-sufficiency, end of police brutality, spiritual improvement, and equal economic opportunities

4. Influences on the Movement Progressivism and Niagara Movement Progressivism and Niagara Movement Great Migration Great Migration World War II World War II Anticolonialism/Independence movements Anticolonialism/Independence movements Pan-Africanism Pan-Africanism

5. Important Events in the Civil Rights Movement What impact did each event have on achieving equality?

6. NAACP Formed (1909)

7. A. Philip Randolph Threatens March on Washington (1941)

8. Congress on Racial Equality (CORE) Formed (1942)

9. Double V Campaign (1942- 1945)

10. Desegregation of Armed Forces and End to Discrimination in Federal Hiring (1948)

11. Morgan v. Virginia (1946) and Sweatt v. Painter (1950)

12. Brown v. Board of Ed. (1954) and Brown II (1955)

13. Death of Emmett Till (1955)

14. Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955)

15. Desegregation of Central High School in Little Rock (1957)

16. Civil Rights Act of 1957

17. Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) Formed (1957)

18. Woolworth’s Sit-ins and Formation of SNCC (1960)

19. Freedom Rides (1961)

20. Desegregation of Ole Miss (1962)

21. Birmingham Campaign and the Children’s March (1963)

22. March on Washington (1963)

23. Civil Rights Act of 1964

24. Freedom Summer (1964)

25. MFDP Sends Delegates to 1964 Democratic Convention (1964)

26. Assassination of Malcolm X (1965)

27. Selma Campaign (1965)

28. Voting Rights Act of 1965

29. Black Panther Party Formed (1966)

30. SNCC and CORE Expel White Members (1966)

31. METCO formed (1966)

32. Watts, Newark, and Detroit Riots (1965-67)

33. First Black Supreme Court Justice (1967)

34. Poor People’s Campaign (1968)

35. Assassination of MLK and RFK (1968)

36. Civil Rights Act of 1968

37. Kerner Commission and Moynihan Report (1968)

38. Attica Prison Riot (1971)

39. Boston Busing Crisis (1971)

40. Maynard Jackson Elected Mayor of Atlanta and Coleman Young Elected Mayor of Detroit (1974)

41. Regents of the University of California v. Bakke (1978)

42. Jesse Jackson Runs for President (1984)

43. Million Man March (1995)

44. Bollinger Cases (2003)

45. Barak Obama Elected as President (2008)