The Civil Rights Movement

Integration/Desegregation _____________Truman integrates US military Executive Order 9981

2. _______________ - 1st African American pro baseball player Jackie Robinson

Brown v Board of Education Central High School in Little Rock, AR 3. _____________________________ = claimed separate facilities were inherently unequal _____________________________ Governor calls National Guard to block black students’ entry ______________: President sends troops to escort 9 black students Brown v Board of Education Central High School in Little Rock, AR Little Rock 9

Central High School, Little Rock

Protesters at CHS, Little Rock

Protesters at CHS, Little Rock

To honor the memory of Kennedy 4. __________________: bans segregation in US schools and public places a. Pushed through Congress by President Johnson “__________________________” Civil Rights Act of 1964 To honor the memory of Kennedy “No eulogy could more eloquently honor President Kennedy’s memory, [than the] earliest passage of the civil rights bill for which he fought so long.”

5. ________________: outlaws literacy tests needed to register to vote Ban Jim Crow laws _______________: over 1,000 college students help register blacks in Mississippi Voting Rights Act of 1965 Freedom Summer

Civil Rights Groups

Southern Christian Leadership Conference Civil Rights Groups _______________________________________ (SCLC): non-violent protest group that advocated civil rights ________________ = leader March on Birmingham Police attack crowd with fire hoses and dogs Southern Christian Leadership Conference Martin Luther King

Fire hoses strong enough to blow the bark off trees = turned on people

Letter from a Birmingham Jail Civil Rights Groups ii. ___________________________:letter that supports civil disobedience tactics Letter from a Birmingham Jail While confined here in the Birmingham city jail, I came across your recent statement calling my present activities "unwise and untimely." Seldom do I pause to answer criticism of my work and ideas. If I sought to answer all the criticisms that cross my desk, my secretaries would have little time for anything other than such correspondence in the course of the day, and I would have no time for constructive work. But since I feel that you are men of genuine good will and that your criticisms are sincerely set forth, I want to try to answer your statements in what I hope will be patient and reasonable terms.

c. March on Washington: 200,000 people protest for “jobs, justice, and peace” i.___________________________: future where races co-exist in harmony I have a Dream Speech

2. SNCC ___________________________ Supreme Ct bans bus segregation ___________… decide to “test”  riots MLK’s assassination makes people question the non-violent methods ____________________________ Advocate violence to resist oppression _____________ movement seeking unity and self reliance of black community Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee Freedom Rides Student National Coordinating Committee Black power

Civil Rights Movement Review

“Blackbird” – The Beatles

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