1. The Civil Rights Movement
Chapter 31
The Civil Rights Movement

2. 31.2 Discrimination In the South discrimination was the strongest
The government created separate facilities for blacks and whites
Examples: bathrooms, taxis, elevators, stairways, drinking fountains, schools to add text

3. 31.3 Supreme Court Ends School Segregation
Separate but Not Equal:
Blacks did not get as high of quality objects as whites in anything
Schools: Whites Desk and Blacks No Desk
In college AA had to sit in a different classroom and listen from down the hall
Brown v. Board of Education:
The NAACP started suing schools because of segregation in the Supreme Court
Thurgood Marshall was the lawyer of these cases
Supreme Court decided that segregation in schools was wrong and let AA go to regular schools

4. 31.4 Montgomery Bus Boycott
Rosa Parks was arrested because she refused to move from her seat and give to a white man
“Stay off the Buses”:
AA decided that they were not going to ride buses until they stopped segregating
Martin Luther King, Jr.:
He was elected to run the bus boycott
He was learning to be a preacher
Bus Boycott lasted months on end
AA walked and even rode mules to work
King wanted to protest with PEACE
Supreme Court decided the bus segregation was wrong

5. 31.5 Nonviolent Protest Crisis in Little Rock:
In Little Rock, Arkansas 9 AA students were going to an all white school
The National Guard and a mob stopped them many times from entering
President Eisenhower sent US troops with guns to escort them in
This was the first time that blacks and whites were in the same school
Sit-in:
AA students started sitting in restaurant in “White Sections”
When they were not served they sat there all day
They returned the next and days and days after that
Finally shop owners decided that they would allow them because they were losing money

6. 31.6 Filling the Jails of Birmingham
Letter from a Birmingham Jail:
King was arrested in Alabama by the racist chief of police
While in jail he wrote a letter on toilet paper that talked about discrimination
The Children’s Marches:
When King was released children started to protest discrimination
The Chief of Police started to throw them in jails, beat them with clubs, and spray them with fire hoses
Newspapers and the News showed the world what was going on and the shops in the city started to take down the signs

7. 31.7 March on Washington and Civil Rights Laws
“I Have a Dream”:
250,000 people came to hear King give his speech
King did not give his speech instead he spoke from his heart
The Civil Rights Laws of 1964 and 1965:
These laws got rid of segregated areas and things, got rid of the literacy test to vote and registered AA in the voting system
A Shift in Goals:
King wanted also to ensure that AA had good education, good houses and jobs
King was assassinated when he was starting this new campaign

8. 31.8 Black Power
A new movement by Black Muslims started to show hatred to all things white
Malcolm X:
Malcolm X lived a life of crime and when in prison he was taught by Muslim preachers that whites are his enemies
Taught blacks to be themselves and seize their freedom by any means necessary
He was assassinated by his own group, the Nation of Islam

9. Black Power:
Young AA started to wear African style clothes and growing Afros
Some saw Black Power as a way to change their lives for the good
Others saw this as a way to attack whites
The Lasting Legacy:
Because the fight for equality by AA, other cultures won their fights as well