1 The Civil Rights Movement: Part 1 Background and the Movement up to 1960.

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1 The Civil Rights Movement: Part 1 Background and the Movement up to 1960

Segregation The civil rights movement was a political, legal, and social struggle to gain full citizenship rights for African Americans. The civil rights movement was first and foremost a challenge to segregation, the system of laws and customs separating African Americans and whites.

Segregation Segregation was often called the Jim Crow system, after a minstrel show character from the 1830s who was an African American slave who embodied negative stereotypes of African Americans.

Segregation common in Southern states following the end of Reconstruction in These states began to pass local and state laws that specified certain places “For Whites Only” and others for “Colored.”

Segregation African Americans had separate schools, transportation, restaurants, and parks, many of which were poorly funded and inferior to those of whites. Over the next 75 years, Jim Crow signs to separate the races went up in every possible place.

Segregation The system of segregation also included the denial of voting rights, known as disenfranchisement. Between 1890 and 1910, all Southern states passed laws imposing requirements for voting. These were used to prevent African Americans from voting, in spite of the 15th Amendment, which had been designed to protect African American voting rights.

Segregation voting requirements included the ability to read and write (literacy tests), which disqualified many African Americans who had not had access to education; property ownership, which excluded most African Americans, and paying a poll tax, which prevented most Southern African Americans from voting because they could not afford it. Left: A political cartoon about poll taxes by Theodore Geisel (Dr. Seuss) Bottom: A poll tax receipt from Birmingham, Alabama in 1896

Segregation Conditions for African Americans in the northern states were somewhat better, though up to 1910 only ten percent of African Americans lived in the North. Segregated facilities were not as common in the North, but African Americans were usually denied entrance to the best hotels and restaurants. African Americans were usually free to vote in the North. Actor Charlton Heston protests a whites-only restaurant A grammatically incorrect segregation sign

Segregation In the late 1800s, African Americans sued to stop separate seating in railroad cars, states’ disfranchisement of voters, and denial of access to schools and restaurants. One of the cases against segregated rail travel was Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), in which the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that “separate but equal” accommodations were constitutional. A Sign at the Greyhound Bus Station, Rome, Georgia Esther Bubley, photographer, September 1943.

Segregation The NAACP (Nat’l. Org. for the Advancement of Colored People) became one of the most important African American organizations of the twentieth century. It relied mainly on legal strategies that challenged segregation and discrimination in the courts. 20th Annual session of the N.A.A.C.P., 6/26/29 Cleveland, Ohio Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C.; LC-USZ

School Desegregation In May 1954, the Supreme Court issued its landmark ruling in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, KS, stating racially segregated education was unconstitutional, overturning the Plessy decision. White Southerners were shocked by the Brown decision. Desegregate the schools! Vote Socialist Workers : Peter Camejo for president, Willie Mae Reid for vice-president. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C.; LC-USZ

School Desegregation By 1955, white opposition in the South had grown into massive resistance, using a strategy to persuade all whites to resist compliance with the desegregation orders. Tactics included firing school employees who showed willingness to seek integration, closing public schools rather than desegregating, and boycotting all public education that was integrated.

School Desegregation Virtually no schools in the South segregated their schools in the first years following the Brown decision. In Virginia, one county actually closed its public schools. In 1957, Governor Orville Faubus defied a federal court order to admit 9 African American students to Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. President Dwight Eisenhower sent federal troops to enforce desegregation. Protesters against integration in Little Rock, Arkansas, 1959

Little Rock HS, 1957

School Desegregation The event was covered by the national media, and the fate of the nine students attempting to integrate the school gripped the nation. The first African American students to integrate Central High School

School Desegregation As desegregation continued, the membership of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) grew. The KKK used violence or threats against anyone who was suspected of favoring desegregation or African American civil rights. Ku Klux Klan terror, including intimidation and murder, was widespread in the South during the 1950s and 1960s, though Klan activities were not always reported in the media.

The Montgomery Bus Boycott In December 1955, Rosa Parks, a member of the Montgomery, Alabama branch of the NAACP, was told to give up her seat on a city bus to a white person. When Parks refused to move, she was arrested. The local NAACP recognized that the arrest of Parks might rally local African Americans to protest segregated buses. Rosa Parks being fingerprinted, 1955

The Montgomery Bus Boycott The boycott lasted for more than a year, expressing to the nation the determination of African Americans in the South to end segregation. In November 1956, a federal court ordered Montgomery’s buses desegregated and the boycott ended in victory.

The Montgomery Bus Boycott Martin Luther King, Jr., a Baptist minister was president of the Montgomery Improvement Association, the organization that directed the boycott. His involvement in the protest made him a national figure. Through his eloquent appeals to Christian brotherhood and American idealism he attracted people both inside and outside the South. King became the president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) when it was founded in The SCLC complemented the NAACP’s legal strategy by encouraging the use of nonviolent, direct action to protest segregation. These activities included marches, demonstrations, and boycotts. The harsh white response to African Americans’ direct action eventually forced the federal government to confront the issue of racism in the South.

Quick Review: Since 1877, Jim Crow laws in the South Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)… “separate but equal NOT unconstitutional” Brown v. Bd. of Ed (1954)…reverses Plessy decision Central HS: Little Rock, Arkansas … federal gov’t sends troops to enforce desegregation Montgomery Bus boycott (1955)…Rosa Parks…MLK becomes nat’l. figure in civil rights movement