The Civil Rights Movement:
Pre-Movement Conditions in the South Watch: “Never Lose Sight of Freedom” “Rights Denied,” “A Change is Gonna Come”
The Beginnings of the Movement Why a Civil Rights Movement now? Brown v. Board of Education, 1954
The Early Movement
The Role of Birmingham, Alabama The Role of Churches Community Worship Support Black Businesses Meeting place for movement business Leadership Fred Shuttlesworth – “we cannot brag for our success because we are simply doing God’s will” James Abernathy
Montgomery Bus Boycott Rosa Parks refuses to leave her seat Boycott begins Carpool System
Emmett Till Case, 1955
Emergence of Martin Luther King “Soul Force” 1957: Founds SCLC Forms a partnership with Alabama leaders
September, 1957 – The Little Rock Nine
1960 – Sit Ins Begin February: North Carolina April: Formation of SNCC
1961: Freedom Rides CORE formed
October 1961 James Meredith breaks the color barrier at Universities
1963: Birmingham Demonstrations in Birmingham Begin
King in Jail “Letter from a Birmingham Jail”
May 1963 Children’s Crusade in Birmingham The Role of the Radio The role of the church
June 11, 1963 Wallace at the University of Alabama “I say segregation now! Segregation tomorrow! Segregation Forever!” ~ Alabama governor George Wallace, 1963
August 28, 1963: I Have a Dream!
September 15, 1963 Church Bombings
Freedom Summer Intent was to help blacks register without fear of intimidation or unfair tests Death of Civil Rights Workers in Philadelphia, Mississippi
Voter Registration as a Result of the Freedom Summer
1964: Bullets or Ballots? Rise of Malcolm X
1965 – The March from Selma to Montgomery February 1, 1965
March 7, 1965: Bloody Sunday
The Later Movement 1966: the fight for defacto segregation
1966: The Black Panther Movement Begins
Mexico City, 1968 Race Riots emerge in inner cities 1966: Black Power Emerges
1967: Thurgood Marshall Legal cases pre-Supreme Court Major Supreme Court decisions
1968: The Death of Martin Luther King, Jr.
March 1, 1968: Kerner Commission
Results of the Civil Rights Movement See pg. 920 in text
Controversies over Civil Rights Segregation was still the rule until the 1970s Affirmative Action
Justice is Served 2001: Sixteenth Street Baptist Church Bombers Rearrested and tried