1. March 10, 2016 March 10, 2016 “The Civil Rights Movement” “The Civil Rights Movement” Objectives: Objectives: 1.When and where did the first African- Americans arrive in the U.S.? 2. What was the name given to the route of the Triangular Trade that involved the forced transport of slaves from Africa to America? 3. What were known as the Civil War laws?

2. 4. What restrictions were used to prevent African-Americans from voting? 5. What were Grandfather Clauses? 6. What did many southern states pass to segregate races in public places? 7. What is the significance of the Plessy v. Ferguson case (1896)? 8. What is the significance of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas case (1954)?

5. Arrival of Virginia’s first African-Americans. It is estimated that some 10 million people were brought from Africa to America as slaves.

6. Nowhere in the history has a people experienced such a long and traumatic ordeal as Africans during the Atlantic slave trade. Over the nearly four centuries of the slave - which continued until the end of the Civil War - millions of African men, women, and children were savagely torn from their homeland, herded onto ships, and dispersed all over the so-called New World. Although there is no way to compute exactly how many people perished, it has been estimated that between thirty and sixty million Africans were subjected to this horrendous triangular trade system and that only one third-if that-of those people survived...'

15. 1. 1619, Jamestown, Virginia 2. Middle Passage 3. 13 th Amendment 1865 – abolished slavery 14 th Amendment 1868 – former slaves granted citizenship 15 th Amendment 1870 – granted former slaves the right to vote

16. 4. Poll Taxes 4. Poll Taxes Literacy Tests Literacy Tests 5. Provision exempting southern whites from the strict voting requirements 6. Jim Crow Laws

17. 7. Established the “separate but equal” doctrine in the U.S. 8. Landmark decision in which the court overturned the separate but equal doctrine, thus banning racial segregation in public schools.

18. Objectives: 4/7/2015 7. What is the significance of the Plessy 7. What is the significance of the Plessy v. Ferguson case (1896)? v. Ferguson case (1896)? 8. What is the significance of Brown v. 8. What is the significance of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas case (1954)? Kansas case (1954)? 9. What were the major events of the Civil Rights Movement 1954-1965?

20. 7. Established the “separate but equal” doctrine in the U.S. 8. Landmark decision in which the court overturned the separate but equal doctrine, thus banning racial segregation in public schools.

21. 1. Aug 1955 – Murder of 14 yr old Emmett Till in Mississippi

23. Roy Bryant and J. W. Milam

26. 2. Dec. 1 1955 Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott

27. 3. Clinton High School Governor Frank Clement

28. Governor Frank Clement

30. 4. Sep. 1957 – Central High School (Little Rock, Arkansas) Little Rock Nine “Little Rock Nine” “Little Rock Nine”

32. Little Rock Nine

34. 5. Feb. 1960 Diane Nash- Diane Nash-

37. Downtown lunch-counters targeted by the sit-ins included: 1. S. H. Kress; 2. McClellans; 3. Woolworths; 4. Grants; 5. Walgreens; 6. Cain-Sloan; 7. Harveys; 8. Greyhound; 9. Trailways; 10. Moon- McGrathS. H. KressMcClellansWoolworthsGrantsWalgreensCain-SloanHarveysGreyhoundTrailways

41. 6. 1961- “Freedom Riders”

43. 7. Sep. 1962- James Meredith

44. April 12, 1963- Arrest of Martin Luther King, Jr. in Birmingham, Alabama Eugene “Bull” Connor

45. 8. June 11, 1963 - Governor George Wallace

46. June 11, 1963- President John Kennedy submits legislation that later becomes the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (see terms)

47. 9. June 12, 1963- Murder of Medgar Evers in Jackson, MS Bryon De La Beckwith

49. 10. Aug. 28, 1963 – The March on Washington. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivers “I Have A Dream” speech.

53. 11. Sep. 15, 1963- Birmingham Bombings killing four African- American girls

55. Thomas Blanton 62 Bobby Frank Cherry 71 1977 2001 2002

56. Booker T. Washington Marcus Garvey W.E.B. DuBois Garvey Go Home DuBois wants it NOW!!!!!

65. Strom Thurmond Eugene “Bull” Conner George Wallace

66. Albert Gore, Sr.

67. Malcolm X Stokely Carmichael

71. Civil Rights Act of 1968 – ended discrimination in housing (selling or rental) Amendment 24 – Abolished the use of Poll Taxes