1. African-American Civil Rights

2. The Standards SS07-S3C2-02 Identify the government's role in progressive reform (e.g. civil rights) SS08-S1C9-06 Describe the importance of the following civil rights issues and events: Jim Crow Laws nonviolent protests desegregation Civil Rights Act of 1964 Voting Rights Act of 1965

3. Identify the government's role 13th Amendment 14th Amendment 15th Amendment 1866 Civil Rights Act 1871 “Ku Klux Klan” Act Freedmen’s Bureau

4. Jim Crow Laws By the end of the 1870s all southern states except MS, SC, LA, FL reverted to Democratic rule In 1883 the Supreme Court struck down the civil rights act of 1875 and said that private citizens did not have to recognize the civil rights granted by the 14th amendment By 1887 southern railroads became the first segregated public accommodation

5. Jim Crow Laws By the early 1890s Jim Crow was firmly in place in the south; literacy requirements to vote; registration laws; property requirements; secret ballot; poll tax; “grandfather” clause; separate accommodations 1896 -- Plessy v Ferguson upheld “separate but equal” 1898 -- Williams v Mississippi upheld legal disenfranchisement

6. Jim Crow Laws

11. http://www.bergen.org/OurStory/projects/separ ate_BOE/ Separate Cannot Be Equal: Brown Versus Board of Education Created by Jennifer Brunet, Bergenfield High School andBeth Sclafani, Northern Valley Regional High School, Demarest, NJ

12. nonviolent protests What is “nonviolent” protest? What does that mean? When/where did nonviolent protest occur? Why?