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Civil Rights Movement

Federal Government orders the end of Segregation Fourteenth Amendment—all citizens are entitled to “equal protection under the law” What does this mean?

Executive Order 9981 Mandated “equality of treatment and opportunity to all persons in the Armed Services without regards to race” Signed by President Truman Integrated the armed forces

NAACP The organization challenged segregation in the courts.

Brown v Board of Education May 17, 1954 Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal Segregation is illegal and unconstitutional De-segregation must proceed with “all deliberate speed” Case argued by NAACP, lawyer, Thurgood Marshall Oliver Hill, NAACP legal defense team

Virginia’s response Massive Resistance: Closing some schools Establishment of private academies -Public schools in some Virginia counties were closed to prevent integration White flight from urban school systems Ku Klux Klan became active again

Ending Segregation: Montgomery Bus Boycott December 1, 1955—Rosa Parks was arrested in Montgomery, Alabama for refusing to giver her bus seat up to a white person African American community in Montgomery launched a boycott of the buses (later expanded to downtown businesses that discriminated)

Ending Segregation: Montgomery Bus Boycott New leader emerged: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., a Baptist preacher in Montgomery, advocated civil disobedience and a non-violent approach December 21, 1956

Southern Christian Leadership Council (SCLC) Formed in 1957 to unify African-Americans to fight segregation Martin Luther King, Jr. is the president Two strategies Civil disobedience—refusing to obey an unjust law Non-violence

Central High School: Little Rock, Ark. 1957: nine African-American students are selected to integrate Central High School September 2, 1957: Governor Faubus calls in the National Guard to prevent the students from entering the school September 23, 1957: President Eisenhower sends in Federal troops to protect the students. Each student is assigned two soldiers to protect them for the rest of the school year

The Sit-ins February 1960: Woolworth in Greensboro, NC—site of 1st “sit-in”, movement quickly spreads across nation SNCC: Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee—a group of college students who organized to protest segregation African-Americans sit at “white-only” lunch counters until they are served

Freedom Rides 1961—the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) organized groups of white and black people to ride buses all over the South Southerners reacted with violence

Birmingham 1963: King and other ministers arrested for demonstrating in Birmingham, AL. King wrote “Letter from a Birmingham Jail”

1963 March on Washington Participants were inspired by the “I have a dream” speech given by Martin Luther King, Jr. The march helped influence public opinion to support civil rights legislation. The march demonstrated the power of non-violent, mass protest.