1. National Memorial for Peace and Justice
Opened in downtown Montgomery, Alabama on April 26, 2018

3. National Memorial for Peace and Justice

4. National Memorial for Peace and Justice
805 counties across the country depicting location of race-motivated lynchings

7. Lynchings = Intimidation
Lynchings: By State and Race, *
State
White
Black
Total
Alabama 48
299
347
Arizona 31
Arkansas 58
226
284
California 41 2 43
Colorado 65 3 68
Delaware 1
Florida 25
257
282
Georgia 39
492
531
Idaho 20
Illinois 15 19 34
Indiana 33 14 47
Iowa 17
Kansas 35 54
Lynchings = Intimidation

8. Lynchings: By State and Race, 1882-1968 *
White
Black
Total
Kentucky 63
142
205
Louisiana 56
335
391
Maine 1
Maryland 2 27 29
Michigan 7 8
Minnesota 5 4 9
Mississippi 42
539
581
Missouri 53 69
122
Montana 82 84
Nebraska 52 57
Nevada 6
New Jersey
New Mexico 33 3 36
New York
North Carolina 15 86
101
North Dakota 13 16

9. Lynchings: By State and Race, 1882-1968 *
White
Black
Total
Ohio 10 16 26
Oklahoma 82 40
122
Oregon 20 1 21
Pennsylvania 2 6 8
South Carolina 4
156
160
South Dakota 27
Tennessee 47
204
251
Texas
141
352
493
Utah
Vermont
Virginia 17 83
100
Washington 25
West Virginia 28 48
Wisconsin
Wyoming 30 5 35
Total
1,297
3,446
4,743
*Statistics provided  by the Archives at Tuskegee Institute.

10. National Memorial for Peace and Justice
Opened in downtown Montgomery, Alabama on April 26, 2018
[1] What are your thoughts about this memorial?
[2] Is this a topic of history that is ignored, as the speaker claims?
[3] Would you like to see this memorial?

11. Major Accomplishments of the Civil Rights Era within the area of …
[1] Racial Integration (Desegregation) and Racial Equality
[2] Voting Rights Protections
[3] Encouraging Financial Equal Opportunity

12. Read pages 686 – 687 and the handout, “Nullifying the Separate but Equal Principle Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, 1954” answering …
(1) Textbook: what is the goal of the NAACP?
(2) Textbook: what were the separate rulings by the Supreme Court in these different court cases?
(3) Handout: What was the common feature to all four cases combined into the “Brown Case?”
(4) Handout: Instead of looking at the legality of segregation in accordance to the Constitution, the Warren Court utilizes psychology. Why?

13. Public School Segregation
Maier, Inventing America;

14. African-American Civil Rights Movement, 1954-68
Social Justice:
* 1954: Brown v. Board of Education
* 1955: Montgomery Bus Boycott
* 1957: Little Rock High School Case
* 1963: The March on Washington
* Civil Rights Act of 1964
Voting Rights:
* 1964: Freedom Summer
* 1965: The Selma
Campaign
* The Voting Rights Act of
1965

21. Read pages 686 – 687 and the handout, “Nullifying the Separate but Equal Principle Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, 1954” answering …
(1) Textbook: what is the goal of the NAACP?
(2) Textbook: what were the separate rulings by the Supreme Court in these different court cases?
(3) Handout: What was the common feature to all four cases combined into the “Brown Case?”
(4) Handout: Instead of looking at the legality of segregation in accordance to the Constitution, the Warren Court utilizes psychology. Why?

22. Warren Court 1953 - 1969 Overturns …
Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
Segregation illegal in schools, as the “separate but equal” principle is unconstitutional.
Overturns …
Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
- Which had established the idea of “separate but equal” creating the opportunity for “Jim Crow” laws.
Earl Warren, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court

25. Write down the following prompts in notebooks, preparing to watch a video about the 1950’s, “Happy Days”: America's Time, (21:20 – 29:30)
(1) Rosa Parks & Montgomery Bus Boycott ( ) …
(2) Little Rock Central High School (1957) …
(3) Response to Anne Thompson …

26. Rosa Parks (1955) Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955 – 1956)
Refuses to give up her seat
Montgomery Bus
Boycott (1955 – 1956)
Forces city of Montgomery,
Alabama to end bus segregation

27. School Desegregation
Virtually no schools in the South segregated their schools in the first years following the Brown decision.
In 1957, Governor Orval Faubus defied a federal court order to admit nine African American students

28. “Little Rock Nine (1957) …”