1. The Civil Rights Movement 1945-1970
Chapter 21

2. Beginnings Segregation was a way of life WWII Needed laborers
Jackie Robinson
NAACP pushes harder to end segregation

4. Whites Only Waiting Room

7. Jackie Robinson

8. Larry Doby

9. Ending Segregation Begin with the schools 10x as much on white kids
Thurgood Marshall heads the group
Wins 29/32 cases in Supreme Court
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
Repeals Plessy v. Ferguson

10. Brown v. Board of Education (1954)

11. Reaction Schools resist Eisenhower orders it done quickly in 1955
Little Rock forces his hand (1957)
Central High School in Little Rock
The Little Rock Nine
Governor refuses to desegregate

12. School Desegregation Little Rock Nine

15. 1962

16. Montgomery Bus Boycott
Rosa Parks was arrested for not giving up her seat to a white man.
Boycotted city busses for almost 1 year
Martin Luther King was selected to head the boycott.

17. Cont’d White Citizens Council formed
Supreme Court rules segregation on buses was illegal in 1956

18. Rosa Parks

19. Rosa Parks

20. Violence towards Blacks
Emmett Till was lynched (1955)
Bus bombings
Medgar Evers murdered (1963)
Police brutality

25. Home Grown Movements Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
Began in 1957
Win A.A.’s from all ages and all areas
Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
Viewed changes as too slow

27. Civil Disobedience Sit-ins
First done by the Congress for Racial Equality (CORE)
Began being televised
Freedom riders
Hoped to make Kennedy act

29. Burned Bus in Anniston, Alabama

30. Governor George Wallace

31. March on Washington August 28, 1963
100th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation
King’s “I have a dream” speech
Two weeks later 4 young girls killed in church bombing

36. Lyndon Johnson and Black Leaders

37. Freedom Summer CORE and SNCC leaders head south to go register voters
A number of workers are killed.
Klansmen begin a violence campaign

40. Malcolm X Whites were the cause of black problems Separate from Whites
Preached armed resistance to white authority
2/21/65 He is shot and killed in Harlem

41. Malcolm X

43. Stokely Carmichael Black Power Urged violence for equality
Focus on A.A.’s quit trying to recruit whites
Leads to the Black Panthers
Huey Newton and Bobby Seale

44. Stokely Carmichael
(Black Panthers)

49. The Temptations

50. The Drifters

53. April 4, 1968
                                                                                                                     

59. King’s Gravesite

60. Mexican-Americans Worked in jobs no one else wanted to do
Worked long hours, very low pay, no benefits at all!
Lived in cramped farmhouses

64. UFW Unions Cesar Chavez emerges as the leader for better lives.
Works for better working conditions, housing, etc…
Workers become citizens to be able to vote
First office in Fresno!

68. American Indian Movement
Occupy Alcatraz from
Occupy Wounded Knee 1973

74. Gloria Steinem