The Civil Rights Movement. Today’s Standards US. 89 Examine court cases in the evolution of civil rights, including Brown v. Board of Education and Regents.

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The Civil Rights Movement

Today’s Standards US. 89 Examine court cases in the evolution of civil rights, including Brown v. Board of Education and Regents of the University of California v. Bakke

Bellringer What are your 5 most important rights/freedoms you have as an American citizen? List the five you pick and write a few sentences explaining why you picked it USE PAGES OF TEXTBOOK IF YOU NEED HELP

Supreme Court Case Study Both group member have to do this but work together to complete 1. Get into your assigned group 2. You will be handed a case study of a Supreme Court case at random 3. Read your case study 4. ID both sides of the case 5. ID the constitutional issue and amendment related to the case 6. Write a ½ page summary of the background of the case and the Supreme Court decision 7. Write a paragraph about your personal opinion of the decision 8. Answer the questions at the end of the case study

Today’s Standards US. 89 Examine court cases in the evolution of civil rights, including Brown v. Board of Education and Regents of the University of California v. Bakke US.90 Examine the roles of civil rights advocates US.92 Describe significant events in the struggle to secure civil rights for African American

Supreme Court Case Study 1. Pick a group member to stay at your desk and pick a group member to move to other groups 2. Explain your case to the other groups or the other groups that come to you 3. Fill in Supreme Court case chart with info from other groups

Supreme Court Case Study Write a ½ page paragraph about what you learned about another group’s court case

Assignment Use Chapter 16 of textbook to define the following words 1. “Separate but Equal” 2. De Facto Segregation 3. Filibuster 4. Cloture 5. Racism 6. Black Power

Little Rock Central High School President Eisenhower sent in National Guard to integrate Little Rock Central High School African American Students who integrated the school known as the Little Rock Nine

Clinton High School Near Oak Ridge, TN First School in TN to be desegregated Governor Frank Clement sent the National Guard to escort the black students (Clinton 12) White Supremacist blows up the school (no one injured)

Montgomery Bus Boycott Rosa Parks arrested when she refused to give up a seat on a Montgomery bus to a white passenger Lead to the integration of Montgomery city buses

Freedom Riders White College Students from the North and African American Civil Rights Leaders took Buses around the Deep South Met with by violence from some white southerners

Martin Luther King Jr. Baptist minister Helped found the Southern Christian Leadership Conference Believed in non- violent protests (Gandhi) Won Noble Peace Prize Assassinated in 1968 in Memphis, TN

Martin Luther King Jr. and his March on Washington August 1963 March by African Americans and whites in Washington to protest the lack of federal laws protecting civil rights “I have a Dream” given by MLK from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial

Assignment Answer in a half page response Do you believe that America has finally realized Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream? Why or Why Not?

Today’s Standards US.90 Examine the roles of civil rights advocates US.91 Examine the roles of civil rights opponents US.92 Describe significant events in the struggle to secure civil rights for African American US.94 Analyze the civil rights and voting rights legislation, including the Civil Rights Act of 1964

Malcolm X Became a member of the Nation of Islam while in prison Left the organization after a leadership dispute with Nation founder Elijah Muhammad Believed blacks had the right to fight for their rights using any means necessary

Stokely Carmichael 4 th Chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee Believed African Americans should use their economic and political power to cause change “Black Power”

“Bull” Connor Police chief of Birmingham, AL during the Civil Rights era Known for his use of attack dogs and high pressure hoses on civil rights activists

Birmingham Violence

George Wallace Governor of Alabama Opposed the end of segregation “Stand in the School House Door”

Birmingham Bombings Several Birmingham African American Churches fire-bombed by white supremacists Young Girls in a Sunday School Class were killed Suspect found not guilty of murder by all white jury Suspect convicted on related charges 20 years later

Inside the church

Nashville Lunch Counters Sit-in strike by African American students over segregation at Nashville Lunch Counters Forced the integration of the Lunch Counters in Nashville Department Stores Diane Nash

Civil Rights 1964 Ended unequal application of voter registration requirements and racial segregation in schools, at the workplace and by facilities that served the general public

Civil Rights Quiz 1. What supreme court decision ended segregation in public schools? 2. Who refused to give up a seat on a bus and started the Montgomery Bus Boycott? 3. Where was MLK assassinated? 4. What Alabama city was known for racial violence and police brutality of black protesters during the 1960’s? 5. What organization did Malcolm X join while in prison? 6. What tactic did Diane Nash and other civil rights protesters use to integrate Nashville lunch counters during the 1960s?