1. The Civil Rights Movement
Origins and Development

2. I. Caste, Community, Consensus and the NAACP
A. Background
1. Caste Laws
2. Community
B. Education-Brown v. Board, Topeka
1. NAACP
2. Education and Race
3. Brown Decision [1954]
***”separate but equal” was inherently unequal*** 14th Amendment
(Plessy v.Ferguson)

3. C. Southern Elites
1. Massive Resistance
D. Montgomery Bus Boycott [ ]
1. Rosa Parks
2. Marked Rise of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
E. King’s Philosophy
1. “personalism” and “creative tension”
2. good law based on moral law thus all Americans have the obligation to disobey “Bad” law

4. F. The Creation of The Southern Christian Conference [SCLC]
G. Sit-in Movement
1. Marked the thrust of blacks into mainstream
a. Woodworth lunch counter
H. The Student Nonviolent Coordination Committee [SNCC]
I. Freedom Rides [1961] (CORE)
1. Birmingham Ala.
a. Eugene “Bull” O’Conner
2. Mississippi

5. J. Birmingham [1963]
1. Publicity
a. “Letter From
Birmingham Jail”
b. “Bull” O’Conner
2. Impact
K. Mississippi “Freedom Summer” [1964]
L. Selma March [1965]

6. II. Changing Nature of the Civil Rights Movement [1965]
A. Middle-class blacks withdraw
B. Northern Ghettos
1. Watts Riot (LA) [Aug. 1965
2. MLK assassinated
3. New Militancy
a. Black Panthers
b. Nation of Islam

7. III. The Civil Rights Movement and the Nation
A. Movement to North
1. Chicago
2. Failure
B. King’s attempted solution-The Poor Peoples’ Campaign
C. SNCC
D. Stokely Carmichael-”Black Power” [1966]
1. Activities

8. Conclusion
1. The ultimate beneficiary of movement was the black middle class
- Individual rights attained
- black masses