1. The Civil Rights Movement
Background:
250 years of slavery
Civil War and Reconstruction
(13th, 14th and 15th Amendments)
Jim Crow segregation
“Separate but Equal” (Plessy v Ferguson)
Poll taxes and literacy tests

2. The following graph gives the number of lynchings and racially-motivated murders...

3. The Civil Rights Movement
Slow Progress in the Early Twentieth Century
Booker T. Washington
W.E.B/ DuBois
The Niagara Movement - The NAACP

4. The Modern Civil Rights Movement
End of World War II
Truman Integrated the Military
The Supreme Court Integrated the Public Schools
The Movement Begins…

5. What was the situation in 1955?
Segregation was still legal in public facilities, jobs and housing.
Poll taxes, literacy tests and other means were still used to prevent voting.
Fear, terror and the Klan were still prevalent.

6. Goals? Equal Opportunity Integration Maintaining a separate identity
Economic Equality

7. Methods? Organizations Raising Awareness Civil Disobedience
Violent Confrontations

8. Leaders?
Martin Luther King
Malcolm X
The most effective?

9. Who Participated? African Americans Native Americans Hispanics Women
The Handicapped
Homosexuals

10. Success? Civil Rights Legislation Decline of Prejudice
New Roles and Opportunities

11. REPORT CARD ON EQUALITY IN THE UNITED STATES (2003):
Life expectancy of a black child
years shorter
Today - Six years shorter
Risk of a black woman dying during childbirth
Three times as likely
Today - 3-1/2 times as likely
Infant mortality rate for blacks
Twice that of whites
Today - Slightly more than twice
Black families below the poverty line
Four times the number of white families
Today – Unchanged
Unemployment rate for black adults
Twice that of whites
Income of a black family
percent of a white family's
Today - 66 percent

12. Remaining Issues? Persistence of Economic Inequality
Persistence of Prejudice (Gays and Lesbians?)
Controversial Remedies (Affirmative Action, Bussing Programs…)