1. CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
Rights for Everyone

2. DISCRIMINATION IN AMERICA
Jim Crow laws segregated African Americans and whites. Where?
How?
Who lacked civil rights in America?

3. Segragation
Segregation took place all over the United States, but dominantly in the south.
Education
Housing
Restauraunts
Schools
Buses
Public places – museums etc

4. NAACP
Founded in 1909, the NAACP is the nation's oldest and largest civil rights organization. From the ballot box to the classroom, the thousands of dedicated workers, organizers, leaders and members who make up the NAACP continue to fight for social justice for all Americans.
Organization goal to ensure all minorities are treated fairly

5. National Urban league
The mission of the Urban League movement is to enable African Americans to secure economic self-reliance, parity, power and civil rights.

6. BROWN VS. BOARD OF EDUCATION
Case background:
Landmark Supreme Court case that ended segregation in schools.
Which amendment protected the rights of Americans concerning public education?
14TH! (Equal protection of the law.)
Separate but equal is false. There is an essential inequality with separate in itself.

7. MONTGOMERY BUS BOYCOTT
African Americans had to sit at the back of buses.
Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat at the front of the bus.
The Montgomery African American community boycotted city buses.
This boycott brought national attention to the problem of segregation.

8. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.
Baptist minister who believed in peaceful protests during the civil rights movement.
He led marches, demonstrations, and boycotts in the south. Peaceful
African Americans conducted “sit-ins” at lunch counters, (Woolworths in Greensboro) and “freedom riders rode on buses.
“I have a dream!” (Speech about freedom and equality.)

9. LEGISLATION FOR EQUALITY
Civil Rights Act of 1964: Prohibited discrimination in public places, education, jobs, and voter registration.
24th Amendment (1964) abolished poll tax.
1965 Voting Rights Act further ensured voting rights at the polls.
Affirmative Action (1970s): Programs to make up for past discrimination by offering education and job opportunities to minorities. The Racial Justice Program actively supports affirmative action to secure racial diversity in educational settings, workplaces and government contracts, to remedy continuing systemic discrimination against people of color, and to help ensure equal opportunities for all people. As part of this commitment, we are working to defend affirmative action in states that are threatened for a civil rights rollback.
Laws against racial profiling.