1. Warm Up
Define: jim crow, black codes, segregation, and brown v. board of education.

2. Civil Right Movement In the 1950s
15 million African Americans living in the United States
2/3 living in the south
Jim Crows laws ruled their lives
Legal segregation in schools, parks, transportation, hospitals etc

3. Civil Right Movement Brown v Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas
May 17, 1954
Supreme Court unanimously decided segregation violates the 14th amendment
Brown Family

4. Video

5. Civil Right Movement Chief Justice Earl Warren
1. Education plays a vital role in training children for citizenship, employment and leisure-time activities
2. Separating black children from others solely on the basis of race “generates a feeling of inferiority that may affect them in a way unlikely to be undone”
3. therefore, separate educational facilities are inherently unequal
Reversed Plessy v Ferguson
Thurgood Marshall argues the case

6. Civil Right Movement Emmett Till Killed in 1955
Brings the problem to the attention of the nation

7. Civil Right Movement Montgomery Bus Boycott 1955-1956
Rosa Parks “mother of the civil rights movement” refused to leave seat for a white man
Arrested for violating the city’s segregation law
Year long boycott of the bus company
Calls by pastors of church to lead resistance
City agreed to change the law to allow black to sit anywhere
Event produced a leader, an organization, technique
Martin Luther King Jr.
SCLC
Non- violent civil disobedience

8. Civil Right Movement Integration at Little Rock 1957
Orval Faubus, gov. of Arkansas, mobilized the National Guard to prevent nine African-Americans students from attending
Direct challenge to federal authority
Eisenhower sent in army (paratroopers) to restore order and protect the “Little Rock Nine”

9. Civil Right Movement
Woolworth lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina
Greensboro four
Feb. 1st Bought items at Woolworth than sat down to order coffee
Not served
Result
July desegregated lunch counters
Over 70,000 people participated in sit-in through out the South
Press they received

10. Activity
Read the following primary source documents about the bus boycotts.
Proceed to answer the corresponding questions.
Due HW.

11. Homework Read about Brown v. Board of Education.
Complete Primary Source Analysis.

12. Warm Up
Define: SNCC, SCLC, and freedom riders.

13. Civil Right Movement Student Nonviolent Coordination Committee (SNCC)
Grew out of SCLC
For students
was organized to advance the "sit-in" movement

14. Civil Right Movement Freedom Rides Spring of 1961
SNCC members joined with activists from the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), a New York-based civil rights organization to encourage the Freedom Rides
Placed white and black students on interstate busses to test the new court decision to desegregate waiting rooms and dining facilities at bus stops
In deep South response was violent
Attorney General Robert Kennedy assigned federal marshals to protect riders

15. Civil Right Movement Birmingham, Alabama
Rev. Shuttlesworth asked MLK to come to city
Most segregated big city in America
Test nonviolence
It was a planned non-violent campaign
Police Commissioner “Bull” Connor decided to crush the protest
Police used fire hoses, police dogs and clubs
TV carried scene to the nation

16. Civil Right Movement MLK arrested
Leaders felt MLK was pushing too hard/too fast
Response “Letters from Birmingham”
Kids march, 1000 arrested
Result
End to segregation in Birmingham
HUGE victory
Kennedy on TV asked Congress to pass a Civil Rights Bill
Nation saw racism in the South at its worst

17. Civil Right Movement Civil Rights Act of 1964 Elections:
Prohibited election officials from applying different standards to blacks and whites voting
Public Accommodations:
Forbade discrimination in public places
Forbade discrimination in government owned or operated facilities
Federally Assisted Programs
Allowed the government to withhold aid from states involving discrimination
Employment
Prohibited discriminatory practices by employers, agencies, and labor union
No discriminatory hiring on basis of race, sex , religion or nationality

19. Civil Right Movement 24th Amendment Passed in 1964
Prohibited the use of poll taxes as a requirement for voting in a federal election

20. Civil Right Movement Voting Act of 1965
A result of Selma, Alabama incident
State troops assaulted demonstrators as they marched to the state capital
President Johnson “We shall over come”
Outlawed literacy test
Federal examiners in to register voters where irregularities existed
Signed 100 years after the Civil War ended

21. Civil Right Movement Results of Civil Rights Right to vote
South would never be the same again
Served in politics at all level
Segregation became illegal
Ended an Era
Civil Rights campaigns in the South led by peaceful moderates
Lets go North!

22. SNCC PS Analysis
Read the PS documents, answer the corresponding questions and complete the graphic organizer.
Due EOC.
Homework: Voting Rights Act PS Analysis
Read the PS documents, answer the corresponding questions and complete the graphic organizer.