1. Why Civil Rights Needed a Movement
The decision in Brown v. Board of Education was just the beginning of the Movement.

2. The Civil Rights Movement was a prolonged struggle for two main reasons:
-Segregationists were committed to keeping the legal, social and societal status quo which segregation had achieved for a century.
-Activists and African-Americans were tired of the oppression and committed to change.

3. The Beginning of a Movement
Brown v. Board of Education became a federal government statement on the impact of segregation.
Southerners Responded:
Reading 1: Judge Brady and his Black Monday Speech.
What were the fears of segregationists?

4. De jure Segregation
All passenger stations in this state operated by any motor transportation company shall have separate waiting rooms or space and separate ticket windows for the white and colored races. (Alabama)
No colored barber shall serve as a barber [to] white women or girls. (Georgia)
The officer in charge shall not bury, or allow to be buried, any colored persons upon ground set apart or used for the burial of white persons. (Georgia)
All persons licensed to conduct the business of selling beer or wine...shall serve either white people exclusively or colored people exclusively and shall not sell to the two races within the same room at any time. (Louisiana)

5. Eisenhower: “We are a nation of laws not men”
Reading 2
Why is Eisenhower’s statement not enough?

6. What is the significance of the mob at Central High School?
Reading #3

7. Gaining the Right to Sit
Movement Strategy
Segregationist Reaction
Bus Boycotts
Lunch-counter sit-ins
Freedom Rides
Boycotts of White-owned Businesses
Violence
Lack of Law enforcement protection for demonstrators
Local governments “protecting” business interests.

8. What is the impact of the boycotts?
Strategy: Boycotts
Reading #4
What is the impact of the boycotts?
(End Part I)