Ch. 27 Civil Rights in the 1950’s & Early 1960’s Mr. Buttell APUSH
“Biggest Damn Fool Mistake”
Chief Justice Earl Warren
NAACP Legal Defense Fund, INC Chief Counsel Argued successfully that white primaries unconstitutional Defends Brown v. Board of Education Johnson appoints to S.C. in late 60s, 1 st A.A. to high court
Brown v. Board of Education(1954 ) Linda Brown denied equal protection of laws under 14 th amendment May 17, 1954, case overturns Plessy 1955, proceed “with all deliberate speed”
Emmett Till Lynching, summer of 1955 in MS
Rosa Parks
Montgomery Bus Boycott 381 day boycott Nov bus segregation declared illegal
Southern Christian Leadership Council (SCLC) Boycott elevates King to prominence SCLC and NAACP team up to tackle racial injustice
Massive Resistance KKK membership increases White Citizen Councils form “Southern Manifesto” signed by 101 members of Congress Pres. Eisenhower says nothing
Little Rock, 1957
Little Rock Nine
Blocked by Arkansas National Guard
101 st Airborne
Greensboro, N.C. February 1, 1960
Nashville Sit-Ins
A Long Wait?
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee Ella Baker starts grassroots organization of students 50,000 participate, 3,600 jailed Promotes “Participatory Democracy”
Non-Violent Resistance
Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)
Anniston AL lights the way!
Alabama, 1963
Freedom Riders in Montgomery
Welcome to Birmingham
Birmingham, 1963
“Putting on the Pressure”
Gov. George Wallace
Vivian Malone
June 11,1963: AL Gov. Wallace blocks two students from entering U of A Kennedy denounces racism on national TV Promises a new civil rights bill
June 12,1963: Medgar Evers, Pres. MS Chapter NAACP
Byron De La Beckwith 1963, 1994 & 1997
Asa Philip Randolph
Planning the March on Washington
John Lewis 1963 and 2003