1. 1954-1968 The Civil Rights Movement Section 1: The Movement Begins The Origins of the Movement “separate-but-equal” Plessy v. Ferguson 1896 de facto segregation Court Challenges Begin NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People New Political Power The Push for Desegregation Congress of Racial Equality sit-ins The Civil Rights Movement Begins Brown v. Board of Education 1954 The Southern Manifesto The Montgomery Bus Boycott

2. Rosa Parks Martin Luther King Jr. African American Churches Eisenhower and Civil Rights Crisis in Little Rock Little Rock Nine New Civil Rights Legislation Civil Rights Act of 1957 Section 2: Challenging Segregation The Sit-In Movement Jesse Jackson SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee), Marion Barry The Freedom Riders JFK and the Civil Rights Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity The Justice Department Takes Action

3. James Meredith Violence in Birmingham “4 Little Girls” The Civil Rights Act of 1964 The March on Washington The Civil Rights Bill Becomes Law filibuster cloture Civil Rights Act of 1964 Equal Employment Opportunity Commission The Struggle for Voting Rights poll taxes The Selma March The Voting Rights Act of 1965 Section 3: New Issues Problems Facing Urban African Americans Racism

4. The Watts Riot The Kerner Commission The Shift to Economic Rights Chicago Movement Richard Daley Black Power Stokely Carmichael cultural assimilation Malcolm X and the Nation of Islam The Black Panthers The Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.