5-5 DEMONSTRATE AN UNDERSTANDING OF THE SOCIAL, ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL EVENTS THAT INFLUENCED THE UNITED STATES DURING THE COLD WAR ERA 5-5.3 Explain the advancement of the modern Civil Rights Movement; including the desegregation of the armed forces, Brown v. Board of Education, the roles of Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, the Civil Rights acts, and the Voting Rights Act.

LETS REMEMBER… The progression of the civil rights movement in the United States began with abolition and emancipation, continued throughout the late 19th and 20th centuries and continues today. 13th, 14th, 15th amendments

PLESSY V. FERGUSON Plessy v. Ferguson Supreme Court case of 1896: doctrine of “separate but-equal” leading to Jim Crow Laws. Although the “separate” portion of the doctrine was followed, evidence of the “equal” side rarely materialized. From that time many Americans had pressed for continued improvement in the area of civil rights with limited success.

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CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIVIST Booker T. Washington W.E.B. Dubois Ida B. Wells Barnett Marcus Garvey

AFTER WWII The contribution of African Americans to the war effort helped to bring about desegregation of the US military Although African Americans fought in segregated unites during the war, many died for they country just as white soldiers did.

AFTER WWII However, African Americans returned from the war to a country racially divided. Upon the wars conclusion, African Americans faced many instance of prejudice and discrimination. President Harry S. Truman, in his role as Commander-in-Chief of the military, ordered the desegregation of the army. However, he could not order the end of all discrimination.

BROWN V. BOARD OF EDUCATION 1954, US Supreme Court declared the practice of school segregation unconstitutional.

BROWN V. BOARD OF EDUCATION According to the Supreme Court, the schools were to be integrated “with all deliberate speed.” With “deliberate speed” open for interpretation, the process of integrating the public schools was in fact deliberate but far from speedy. Over the next 14 years, from the Brown decision until the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1968, the civil rights movement gained momentum.

CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT LEADERS Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Had a nonviolence philosophy that protested the many injustices though marches and boycotts.

CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT LEADERS Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Women’s Association Sit-ins at segregated lunch counters Freedom Riders These activities educated the general public and gained sympathy from many Americans.

PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY Since TV brought the abuses of the Jim Crow Laws into living rooms across the country, President Kennedy proposed the civil rights bill to Congress.

PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY Unfortunately, President Kennedy was assassinated. However, several laws were passed by Congress banning segregation in public places and protecting the right of all Americans to vote during the mid-1960s.

MALCOLM X Malcolm X believed change was not happening quickly enough. He didn’t believe white Americans would ever support equal right for African American and encouraged his followers to rely on themselves as opposed to newly passed civil rights laws.

MALCOLM X Later Malcolm X believed true equality would not be fully achieved without white citizens working together with African Americans.

ASSASSINATIONS CONTINUE Both Malcolm X and Dr. King were assassinated during the last half of the 1960s.

CIVIL RIGHTS ACT 1964 Congress passed the Civil Rights Act Prohibited discrimination in public places and provided for the integration of schools and other public facilities. Also made employment discrimination illegal.

VOTING ACT Voting Act of 1965 Signed by President Johnson, placed a nationwide prohibition against the denial of the right to vote based on the literacy test. Contained special enforcement policies that focused on those areas of the country where Congress believed the potential for discrimination to be the greatest.