1. Chapter 28 Section 2 The Civil Rights Movement Riddlebarger
Freedom Now!
Chapter 28
Section 2
The Civil Rights Movement
Riddlebarger

2. Nonviolence
Brainstorm: what do you think the meaning of civil disobedience is?

5. History of nonviolence
Mohandas Gandhi

6. Nonviolence and Civil Rights Movement.
Martin Luther King of SCLC and James Farmer of CORE

7. The Sit-In Movement Feb. 1, 1960 Change in tactics?
Boycott vs. sit-in
Direct non-violent confrontation

8. Success of Sit-ins Success of Sit-Ins
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
non-violent action

9. Freedom Rides
Test of racial discrimination in interstate bus terminals.
Looking for “a crisis”

10. Freedom Riders

12. Federal Intervention SNCC involvement
U.S. Attorney General Robert Kennedy
Montgomery incident
Gov. response
Jackson, MS indicent
ICC ruling

13. Integrating Higher Education

14. Albany Movement Albany, Georgia - set back
integration of bus facilities
Sit-ins
Martin Luther King and SCLC come in

15. Birmingham 1963 Project C

16. JFK Takes Action

17. Assassination of Medgar Evers

18. March on Washington

19. “I Have A Dream”

20. Passing the Civil Rights Act
Following violence in Birmingham, Pres. Kennedy committed to passing Civil Rights legislation
Bomb blast in Birmingham in April 1963
Nov. 1963: JFK killed
Lyndon Johnson
Civil Rights Act of 1964 banned discrimination in employment & public accommodations.