1. Why did Civil Rights come to prominence after 1945?

3. Civil Rights
Rank the following groups according to the quality of their experience of American life.
What criteria did you use?
What determines how good an experience a group will have in the USA?
American
Women
Caucasian
Americans
Native
Americans
Gay
Americans
Hispanic
Americans
African-
Americans

4. Reconstruction Reminders
The Thirteenth Amendment: Abolished slavery.
The Fourteenth Amendment : All persons born or naturalized in the United States are American citizens (including African Americans).
The Fifteenth Amendment: Prohibits the U.S. from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude.

5. Plessy v. Ferguson
Read about the Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson
On the chart, fill in information about the impact of Plessy v. Ferguson
Homer Plessy

8. Brown v. Board of education
Read about the Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education
On the chart, fill in information about the impact of Brown v. Board of Education
Linda Brown

9. Why did the Civil Rights movement start?
5/27 Drill
Why did the Civil Rights movement start?

10. Death of Emmitt Till

11. closure
Based on what you’ve seen, why do you think the Civil Rights movement started?