1. Civil Rights
Non Violent Approach

2. Civil Rights Organizations
NAACP (National Assoc. for the Advancement of Colored People)
CORE (Congress of Racial Equality)
SNCC (Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee)
SCLC (Southern Christian Leadership Conference)
Interracial
Non Violent protest!!!
Civil rights demonstrators from the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) chained to a federal courthouse in New York City in order to protest civil rights abuses in Jackson, Mississippi, 1965.

3. Sit In’s Sit In’s Some students’ Dos and Don’ts during sit-ins:
-Do show yourself friendly on
the counter at all times.
-Do sit straight and always face the counter
-Don’t strike back, or curse back if attacked
-Don’t laugh out
-Don’t hold conversations
-Don’t block entrances

8. Freedom Rides Segregation on buses banned
Test to see if South would obey
Attacked by mobs

10. James Meredith
Wanted to transfer to University of Mississippi (Ole Miss)
All white school
Violence on campus
Supreme court supports James

11. Ole Miss fought against integration

13. Birmingham, Alabama Most segregated city in country
Boycotts, sit in’s and marches headed by King
King jailed : letter
Adults all arrested
Children march
Violence with hoses and dogs
Children jailed in school bus

14. Birmingham

16. I Have a Dream and Dr. King
Civil Rights Bill – ban segregation in public places
250,000 gather to rally for equality
King’s Dream
Nobel Peace Prize

17. What do you believe?
We have made no progress and we have a huge amount of work left to do. There is no racial equality in this country.
We have made some progress, but we still have a lot of work left to do.  There is some racial equality in this country, but nowhere near enough.
We have made very good progress, but we still have a little work to do.  There is mostly racial equality in this country.
We have come all the way and achieved complete racial equality in our country and we have no work left to do.