1. Warm-up:
List everything you know or can remember about the Civil Rights Movement in America

2. The Civil Rights Movement
The Why, When, What, Where, Who & How

3. WHY
During WWII, Hitler and Nazi Germany believed in the superiority of inferiority of the races
The U.S. and its Allies opposed Hitler’s “racial theory” in the Holocaust
During the war many African Americans worked in defense industries and served in combat
When the war ended, African Americans expected a new day in America

4. WHEN & WHAT
The Civil Rights Movement was a political movement during the 1950s and 1960s devoted to securing equal opportunity and treatment for members of minority groups.
The Movement was built upon the basic principles on which this nation was founded
The Declaration of Independence
The U.S. Constitution

5. WHAT & WHERE The Movement covered all aspects of life: Social equality
The right to go to regular public school
The right to go to public facilities (hotel, restaurants, etc.)
Political equality
The right to vote
The right to run for office
Economic equality
The right to apply for a job and not be discriminated against
The right to apply for a bank loan and not be discriminated against
It was centered in the South where people were killed over the right to vote

6. WHO The movement was led by African Americans
It enlisted the support of people from all walks of life
It served as a model for American Indians, Mexican Americans, women, and more current-The Gay community in their struggle for equality
It served as a model for people around the world who are struggling to get their natural rights

7. HOW It was a reform movement It was a movement for peaceful change
Its participants used civil disobedience
It was a movement to make the US more democratic
It was a long and difficult process to achieve change
It involved overturning the entrenched interests who were hostile to change that would reduce their power and privilege