1. The Civil Rights Movement & The Women’s Rights Movement
Regents Review
The Civil Rights Movement
&
The Women’s Rights Movement

2. NOW
1966 Formed by Betty Friedan. National Organization for Women. First organization dedicated to women’s issues.

3. Betty Friedan
Wrote The Feminine Mystique. This book denied that women were happy with being just housewives and mothers.

4. Margaret Sanger
Began the birth control movement in the U.S. Founder of Planned Parenthood

5. Roe v. Wade
Established the unrestricted right to an abortion during the first three months (first trimester).

6. Results of the Women’s Rights Movement
Equal Access to Education Act
Equal Pay Act
Changing attitudes- Police officer, Fire fighter etc. Using Ms. Instead of Miss or Mrs.
ERA- failed

7. Civil Rights Movement
Plessy v. Ferguson established the principle “separate but equal.” Allowed for segregation.
Brown v. Board 1954 reversed this decision and desegregated public schools.

8. Martin Luther King Jr. Influenced by Gandhi
Passive Resistance- do not hit back
Civil disobedience- break a law if you do not agree with it (but accept the consequences).

9. Montgomery Bus Boycott
Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on the bus.
Year long boycott that desegregated the buses.

10. Freedom Rides
1961- Students who rode throughout the South provoking confrontation on the buses. Meant to increase pressure on the South for equal rights.

11. March on Washington
1963- more than 250,000 Americans rallied in Washington D.C. in support of equal rights.
King gives his famous “I Have A Dream Speech.”

12. Civil Rights Act 1964 No discrimination based on race or color.
Equal access to libraries, parks, schools etc.
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

13. Black Power Movement
African Americans should take control of the political and economic aspects of their lives. Some advocated the use of violence.
Malcolm X- promoted black nationalism. Originally a member of The Nation of Islam, then breaks away and forms Muslim Mosque, Inc.