African American Civil Rights Movement
Previous Black Civil Rights Struggles Quickly Review Previous Black Civil Rights Struggles (1850’s – 1940’s)
Starts push for black rights Pre Civil War Abolition Movement Starts push for black rights Reconstruction Era has mixed legacy 13th, 14th & 15th Amendments passed Federal Gov’t mainly ignores black civil rights during “Gilded Age” Jim Crow Laws become entrenched Plessy v. Ferguson Supports segregation
Progressive Era Black Civil Rights Activist Differ in Goals & Tactics WEB DuBois Booker T. Washington Progressive Era Black Civil Rights Activist Differ in Goals & Tactics
1920’s & 1930’s NAACP Harlem Renaissance Marcus Garvey UNIA “New Negro”
“Double V” of the 1940’s Promotes African-American Rights
Still, “Jim Crow” laws strong into the mid 20th Century
II. Non-Violent Civil Disobedience (mid 1950’s & early ’60’s) “Grassroots” action garners media attention and lead to federal involvement & legal change
Emmett Till Trial
Montgomery Bus Boycotts Martin Luther King Rosa Parks SCLC Civil Disobedience
Little Rock Nine Confrontation Results from Brown v. Board decision Dixiecrats Critical of violation of “states Rights”
Lunch Counter Sit-Ins Organized by CORE & SNCC
Freedom Rides
Boycotts/Marches & Reactions
Birmingham Church Bombing
Freedom Summer & Civil Rights Workers Murdered
“Bloody Sunday” & Selma March
High Tide of Non-Violent Black Civil Rights Movement March on Washington & “I Have a Dream” Speech Landmark Legislation: Civil Rights Act (1964) Voting Rights Act (1965) 24th Amendment (1965) Limits of Success??? Laws change faster than attitudes…rising expectations leads to growing frustration by late 1960’s