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The Help and The Civil Rights Movement Lindsey Smith Shelby Fowler

Overall American civil rights movement: mass protest movement against racial segregation and discrimination in the southern United States that came to national prominence during the mid-1950s. most important breakthrough in equal-rights legislation for African Americans What do you already know?

Social Jim Crow Laws (also in Political) – segregation principle extended to parks, cemeteries, theatres, and restaurants in an effort to prevent any contact between blacks and whites as equals Women’s Role Maid Dichotomy – Pay, children – The Help pgs. 1-7 – The Help (minutes 1:12- 4:30) Home Health Sanitation Initiative – The Help pgs – The Help (minutes 14:50-16:20) How did broad movements affect individuals and society?

Economic Skeeter’s Perspective or Women: – Women were paid less for the same – The Help pgs Maid Pay – Paid less than minimum wage – black maids went on strike in 1866 for higher wages – 1968: Dorothy Bolden, black maid since she was 8, formed the National Domestic Workers Union of America Under her leadership: increased wages for Atlanta’s domestic workers, won a union charter. What would it be like to be African American and a women?

Education Integration of schools – Plessy vs. Ferguson: separate but equal – Brown vs. Board of Education: integrate education, separate is inherently unequal – Little Rock, Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus use national guard to stop school integration On Monday, September 23: the nine black students attend Central High due to intervention of President Eisenhower How would our education be different today if it was still segregated? What opportunities depend on education and how would your life be affected if you didn’t have access to education?

Political 1880s: "Jim Crow" – reference to practices, laws, or institutions that arise from or sanction, the physical separation of black people from white people. – The Help pgs – The Help (minutes 35:30-38) March in Washington DC – August 28, 1963 – coordination of many different civil rights groups – Demands: passage of meaningful civil rights legislation, the elimination of racial segregation in public schools, protection for demonstrators against police brutality, a major public-works program to provide jobs, the passage of a law prohibiting racial discrimination in public and private hiring, a $2 an hour minimum wage, and self-government for the District of Columbia (which had a black majority) – Noteworthy speeches from John Lewis and Martin Luther King Jr. – The Help pgs What was significant about these events? Why was political action required?

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