1. Post WW2 Civil Rights
US History

2. Reconstruction Amendments 13th (1865) 14th (1868) 15th (1870)
Historical Context
Reconstruction Amendments
13th (1865)
14th (1868)
15th (1870)

3. Post Reconstruction South (1877-1960s) Jim Crow Laws
Historical Context
Post Reconstruction South ( s)
Jim Crow Laws
Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
Lynchings
Poll Tax
Literacy Test
Sharecropping

4. Reformers W.E.B. DuBois Booker T. Washington Marcus Garvey
Historical Context
Reformers
W.E.B. DuBois
Booker T. Washington
Marcus Garvey

5. Harlem Renaissance (1920s) World War II Double V Campaign
Historical Context
Movements
Great Migration ( )
Harlem Renaissance (1920s)
World War II Double V Campaign

6. Desegregation of the military

7. Brown v. Topeka Board of Education (1954)
Segregation Before 1954:
Red: Required
Blue: Optional
Yellow: No Rules
Green: Prohibited

8. Brown v. Topeka Board of Education (1954)

9. Earl Warren Thurgood Marshall (NAACP)

10. Brown v. Topeka Board of Education (1954)
Background:
Oliver Brown wanted to send his daughter Linda to the neighborhood school but was unable to do so due to segregation laws.
Legal Questions:
Do Topeka’s segregation laws violate the equal protection clause in the 14th Amendment?
Legal Decision:
Yes (9-0)
Impact:
Separate is inherently unequal. Schools should be desegregated with “all deliberate speed.”

11. Little Rock Crisis

12. Rosa Parks & The Montgomery Bus Boycott

13. Martin Luther King Jr. & the SCLC

14. Freedom Riders

15. Freedom Riders

16. Birmingham Campaign 1963

17. Letter From a Birmingham Jail
“One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws. I would agree with St. Augustine that ‘an unjust law is no law at all’” "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere”

18. March on Washington (13:30- 16:00)

19. Lyndon B. Johnson

20. Civil Rights Act of 1964
Outlawed all segregation in the United States. Prohibited discrimination (racial, gender or religious) in the workforce.

21. Heart of Atlanta Motel v. US (1964)
Background:
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibited segregation in public accommodations. The Heart of Atlanta Motel wanted to be able to choose its own customers.
Legal Questions:
Was the CRA of 1964 constitutional?
Legal Decision:
Yes (9-0)
Impact:
Legalizes the CRA of 1964 essentially ending legal segregation in the United States.

22. Freedom Summer (Fannie Lou hamer) skip 1:10 to 2:35

23. Selma March

24. Selma March

25. SELMA MARCH

26. Selma March

27. Selma March

28. Selma March

29. End to Voting Restrictions
24th Amendment (1964)
Outlaws the Poll Tax for National Elections
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Outlaws the Literacy Test
Outlaws Poll Tax for Local/State Elections

30. Alternative Approaches
MALCOLM X
BLACK PANTHERS

31. Urban Problems
From the 1950s to the 1980s, suburban “white flight” and discriminatory housing policy left many inner cities predominantly African American/minority. These areas continue to face a number of problems:
Poverty
Substandard Housing
Crime and Drugs
Lack of Economic Opportunity
Poor Schools
Breakdown of Families

32. Urban Problems

33. Popular Culture Changes Attitudes

34. President Obama