1. Examine important events and people in the Civil Rights Movement Get your graphic organizer out from yesterday and make sure your part is completed! Reminder: CBA next Tuesday Civil Rights Test Thursday March 5 Quote for the day: Faith is taking the first step, even when you don't see the whole staircase. Martin Luther King Jr.

2. Civil Rights!

3. What are Civil Rights? Civil Rights refers to the positive acts governments take to protect against discriminatory treatment by government or individuals.

4. Freedom Ride- D.C. to New Orleans to test southern compliance with desegregation laws This bus was firebombed by white men and fleeing activists were beaten. Local hospitals refused to treat the wounded riders. What are the goals of these Freedom riders?

5. Woolworth’s lunch counter sit-in May 28, 1963 What are these protestors trying to accomplish?

6. https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=4robFJ- 8DkI&index=2&list=PLYduLZL vSglmKijx- fAA4jvhayK2UmqQR

7. The March on Washington In August 1963, more than 250,000 people marched peacefully on Washington to show support for President Kennedy’s request that Congress ban discrimination in public accommodation

8. MLK’s I Have a Dream https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wDU-oYQN04

9. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 Outlawed arbitrary discrimination in voter registration Barred discrimination in public accommodation Authorized the US Justice Department to initiate lawsuits to desegregate schools and public facilities Allowed the federal government to withhold funds from discriminatory state and local programs Prohibited discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin or sex Created the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) to monitor and enforce bans on employment discrimination

10. 24 th Amendment Outlawed the poll tax

11. Agenda: Selma-Voting Rights FYI: Spiral Check Feb. 25 Thursday Civil Rights Test Tuesday March 1

12. BLOODY SUNDAY

13. Selma March March 1965 Protestors marching from Selma to Montgomery to raise awareness about voting rights BLOODY SUNDAY: On first attempt, local and state troopers attacked the protestors with bull whips, cattle prods and tear gas; 17 marchers are hospitalized Eventually marchers reach Montgomery (50 miles!) and LBJ says: video

14. Voting Rights Act 1965 Federal government could oversee voter registrations and elections Banned discriminatory literacy tests Expanded voting rights for non-English speaking Americans This is following the Selma March! Way to go protestors!

16. “Their cause must be our cause, too. Because it is not just Negroes, but really it is all of us who must overcome the crippling legacy of bigotry and injustice.” That’s right! You tell ‘em Lyndon!

17. Progress! Segregation is illegal African Americans can exercise their right to vote More and more African Americans elected to offices- mayors, congress and state legislatures