Today's Goals Start Quick Notes for the Civil Rights movement

Civil Rights

Quick Notes Civil Rights – rights guaranteed to all Americans by the constitution Civil Rights movement – struggle to achieve equal rights in the 1950’s through 1970’s by changing laws

Quick Notes Plessy vs. Ferguson – in 1896 Supreme Court ruled that “separate but equal” was ok, segregation is ok

Quick Notes NAACP – National Association for the Advancement of Colored People founded in 1909 by W.E.B. DuBois

Jackie Robinson joins Brooklyn Dodgers 1947- Pasadena resident and UCLA alum Robinson breaks the color barrier by being the first black to play major league baseball in modern times

Linda Brown goes to school White School Colored School

Quick Notes Brown vs. Board of Education In 1952 Oliver Brown sued the school so his daughter could go to a closer school

Quick Notes Brown vs. Board of Education In 1952 Oliver Brown sued the school so his daughter could go to a closer school Went to Supreme Court In 1954 Supreme Court ruled that “separate but equal” was not ok in the schools

Emmitt Till On Aug. 27, 1955, Emmett was beaten and shot to death by two white men who threw the boy's mutilated body into the Tallahatchie River near Money, Mississippi. This was because he was accused of flirting with a white woman.

Emmitt Till

Rosa Parks goes home

Quick Notes 1955 – Montgomery, AL Rosa Parks arrested for not giving up her seat to a white passenger African Americans boycotted Montgomery buses, very effective Martin Luther King, Jr. arrested for blocking a bus

Quick Notes 1960 – Greensboro, NC Sit-in at Woolworth’s 4 African American students were ignored sitting at the counter Came every day from open to close to protest

4 students go to have lunch

Quick Notes 1963 – Birmingham, AL led by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. who was put in jail protests in stores, restaurants, and workplaces

Marching in Birmingham

Quick Notes 1963 – Birmingham, AL led by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. who was put in jail protests in stores, restaurants, and workplaces police chief “Bull” Conner ordered fire hoses and police dogs to stop protest, the attacks were televised

Marching in Washington D.C.

Quick Notes 1963 – Washington D.C. 200,000 people march to Washington Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. gives “I have a Dream” speech