1. Bellringer:
Which development following World War II caused the urban-suburban pattern shown in the diagram?
increase in the number of farms
expansion of highways and automobile ownership
movement of most factories to rural areas
decline in the number of middle-income families

2. Learning targets
U9T8 - I can discuss the impact of major people and events in the Civil Rights movement of the 50s/60s. (Martin Luther King Jr., the Freedom Riders, Emmitt Till, and Brown v. Board of Education)
U9T9 - I can compare/contrast Civil Disobedience with revolutionary disobedience (MLK vs. Malcolm X)

3. The Civil Rights Movement 1954-1965’s

4. Civil Rights Vocab
Brown v. Board of Education (1954): Supreme Court ruling declaring that segregation in public schools was unconstitutional

5. School Integration 1. Brown v. Board of Education***
Overturned Plessey v. Ferguson supreme court case that said “Separate but equal”
Illegal to segregate public schools
Problem: Segregation in society still existed in the South and many states did not want to integrate schools
Ex. Little Rock 9
Result: Integration of public schools began but took years!

6. Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
Leader of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Pledged nonviolent resistance: peaceful protest or noncooperation with authorities that is designed to achieve social or political goals
Assassinated at a Memphis hotel room while organizing a strike
One of the most influential people in the Civil Rights Movement
Civil Disobedience: the nonviolent refusal to obey a law that the protester considers unjust

7. How it was …

8. Some of Martin Luther King’s tactics
Montgomery Bus Boycott- Buses segregated African Americans had to sit in the back of the bus
NAACP and Rosa Parks decide to break the law (she gets arrested)
Af. Am. Leaders in the city decided to stage a 1-day boycott
Elected Martin Luther King Jr. to lead a longer boycott
Lasted 381 days
Reading about Browder v. Gayle

9. Some of Martin Luther King’s tactics
Children's March
Birmingham the most segregated city
Leader MLK took charge
Many went to jail for participating in non violent resistance to segregation
1,000 Af. Am youth marched to the city center
News stations captured the violent actions by police towards the children

10. Some of Martin Luther King’s tactics
Lunch Counter Sit-ins
Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee
Trained students in civil disobedience
Do not use violence!
Students sit in restaurants who won’t serve Af. Am.
Why would they do this??

11. Some of Martin Luther King’s tactics
Freedom Rides
CORE: Congress of Racial Equality
Ride on buses to see if complying with integration of interstate buses
Met many acts of violence and arrests in southern states

12. Some of Martin Luther King’s tactics
March on Washington
250,000 people march in Washington D.C.
Largest public gathering in U.S. history
MLK gave his “I have a dream speech”
“I have a dream that one day....”
Wanted to show Congress public support to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964

13. Emmett Till http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMdSYxZqIXc
Young 14 yr. old African American brutally murdered in Mississippi in 1955
What was the South like before
the Civil Right movement?
What impact on the Civil Rights
Movement did Emmett Till’s
murder have?

14. Civil Rights Vocab
Civil Rights Act of 1964: banned discrimination on the basis of race, sex, religion, or national origin- the most important civil rights law passed since Reconstruction
Voting Rights Act of 1965: outlaws literacy tests and other tactics used to deny African Americans the right to vote
Complete TV boxes
Fill out TV box
Events
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Non violent protest- Lunch sit ins, children's march
March on Washington

15. Malcolm X Malcolm X was a Muslim, and believed in Muslim principles.
His most famous line was “By any Means Necessary”.
He believed in fighting back physically. Whatever had to be done to get freedom he was all for it whether it be violence or nonviolence.

16. Malcolm X tactics
Malcolm X had a different perspective regarding the march. He felt that integration would destroy the black and the white man.
He felt that American blacks should be more concerned with helping each other. He felt blacks should start by giving the same race self-respect first.
He was suspicious of whites, willing to use “by any means necessary” to achieve equality. He was a segregationist.
Fins a video clip

17. Venn Diagram
MLK and Malcom X

18. PRE- ASSESSMENT Answer questions 8-9.
Fix questions 1-7 to show mastery of each question by earning a “3”.
Remind 101
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