1. THE AMERICAN CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT

2. What do you know about the civil rights movement? List as many people, terms, and events as possible. In a group of 2 or 3:

3. (The fifth-grade version) The Civil Rights Movement

4. Rosa Parks and the Montgomery bus boycott

5. Martin Luther King, Jr.

6. “I Have a Dream”

7. Nonviolent protest

8. Police brutality

9. Legal victories

10. Desegregation

11. And now we’re done, right?

12. Now with some eleventh-grade complications The Civil Rights Movement

13. It wasn’t just about MLK

14. The importance of economic goals

15. The controversy of integration

16. Racism: it’s not just for Southerners

17. Have we overcome?

18. Unit 8 Overview  Four weeks (now through 5/22)  Big assessments:  Quiz (Fri 5/8)  Essay (due Mon 5/18 or Tu 5/19)  Discussion (Fri 5/22)  Big questions:  How do marginalized people create change?  Have we overcome?

19. The Movement Before 1954

20. What was Jim Crow? When and where did it happen? What specific methods were used to enforce white supremacy during the Jim Crow era? With your partner:

21. Jim Crow – a review  1877 to mid-1960s  Era in which African Americans were politically, socially, and economically oppressed  Mostly refers to Southern states

22. Jim Crow methods: laws

23. Jim Crow methods: customs

24. Jim Crow methods: economic inequality

25. Jim Crow methods: disenfranchisement

26. Jim Crow methods: violence

27. How do you think African Americans responded to Jim Crow before the civil rights movement? In your notebook:

28. Washington vs. Du Bois  W.E.B. Du Bois (1868-1963)  “[T]he way for a people to gain their rights is not by voluntarily throwing them away and insisting that they do not want them… Negroes must insist continually, that voting is necessary to manhood, that color discrimination is barbarism, and that black boys need education as well as white boys.”  Booker T. Washington (1856-1915)  “The opportunity to earn a dollar in a factory just now is worth infinitely more than to spend a dollar in an opera house.”

29. The Great Migration(s)  Two waves: 1916-1930; 1940-1970  Massive movement of African Americans from the South to the North, Midwest, and West  Why?  “Push” factors – discrimination and poverty  “Pull” factors – jobs and opportunity  Result: dispersal and urbanization of America’s black population

31. Life in the North  Residential segregation  Ghettoization  Job discrimination  Racial tensions, riots, and violence  Growth in civil rights activism – and diverging approaches

32. Black Nationalism  Key principles:  Independent nation-state for black people  Creation of independent black institutions  Celebration of “African culture”  A few examples:  Colonization movement  Universal Negro Improvement Association – founded 1914  Nation of Islam – founded 1930

33. The NAACP  National Association for the Advancement of Colored People – founded 1909  Dominant civil rights organization in 1940s and early 1950s  Major campaigns:  Publicizing inequality and segregation  Anti-lynching law  Legal challenges to segregation