1. Civil Rights Movement

2. The Other America Not the “American dream” White flight
Inner cities decline

3. Civil Rights Civil Rights Act of 1875 Plessy vs. Ferguson
Outlawed segregation in public facilities
1883: Supreme Court ruled unconstitutional
Plessy vs. Ferguson
Separate but equal is constitutional

4. Segregation in the South
Jim Crow laws

5. Emmett Till

7. Civil Rights Movement Strengthens
WWII sets stage
Job opportunities
Armed forces
Campaigns for freedom
Roosevelt’s directive

8. Thurgood Marshall & the NAACP
NAACP = National Association for the Advancment of Colored People (1909)
Thurgood Marshall
Focus on school segregation
$$ spent on white = 10x more!

9. School Segregation

10. Brown vs. Board of Education
Linda Brown
8 years old
Denied access to all-white elementary school
4 blocks from home
Nearest all-black elementary school = 21 blocks
Supreme Court rules segregation in schools is unconstitutional
14th Amendment – Equal Protection

11. Reaction to the Brown Decision
Read “Reaction to the Brown Decision”
Page 909 – top of 910
Answer on a ½ sheet of paper:
What did the Brown II ruling say and why was it necessary?
Why weren’t schools in all regions desegregated immediately after the Brown II decision?
What effect do you think television coverage of the Little Rock incident had on the nation?