1. Today's Goals
Start Quick Notes for the Civil Rights movement

2. Civil Rights

3. Quick Notes
Civil Rights – rights guaranteed to all Americans by the constitution
Civil Rights movement – struggle to achieve equal rights in the 1950’s through 1970’s by changing laws

5. Quick Notes
Plessy vs. Ferguson – in 1896 Supreme Court ruled that “separate but equal” was ok, segregation is ok

8. Quick Notes
NAACP – National Association for the Advancement of Colored People founded in 1909 by W.E.B. DuBois

9. Jackie Robinson joins Brooklyn Dodgers
1947- Pasadena resident and UCLA alum Robinson breaks the color barrier by being the first black to play major league baseball in modern times

10. Linda Brown
goes to school
White School
Colored School

11. Quick Notes Brown vs. Board of Education
In 1952 Oliver Brown sued the school so his daughter could go to a closer school

14. Quick Notes Brown vs. Board of Education
In 1952 Oliver Brown sued the school so his daughter could go to a closer school
Went to Supreme Court
In 1954 Supreme Court ruled that “separate but equal” was not ok in the schools

15. Emmitt Till
On Aug. 27, 1955, Emmett was beaten and shot to death by two white men who threw the boy's mutilated body into the Tallahatchie River near Money, Mississippi.
This was because he was accused of flirting with a white woman.

16. Emmitt Till

17. Rosa Parks
goes home

18. Quick Notes 1955 – Montgomery, AL
Rosa Parks arrested for not giving up her seat to a white passenger
African Americans boycotted Montgomery buses, very effective
Martin Luther King, Jr. arrested for blocking a bus

20. Quick Notes 1960 – Greensboro, NC Sit-in at Woolworth’s
4 African American students were ignored sitting at the counter
Came every day from open to close to protest

21. 4 students go
to have lunch

22. Quick Notes 1963 – Birmingham, AL
led by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. who was put in jail
protests in stores, restaurants, and workplaces

23. Marching in
Birmingham

25. Quick Notes 1963 – Birmingham, AL
led by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. who was put in jail
protests in stores, restaurants, and workplaces
police chief “Bull” Conner ordered fire hoses and police dogs to stop protest, the attacks were televised

26. Marching in
Washington D.C.

27. Quick Notes 1963 – Washington D.C. 200,000 people march to Washington
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. gives “I have a Dream” speech