1. 1954 - 1968 Essential Question: How did the Civil Rights movement begin to make major progress in correcting segregation?

2.  Laws that selectively discriminated against Af- Am  Af-Ams were prevented from voting  KKK regularly lynched Af- Am

4.  Homer Plessy was an octoroon  Boarded a whites only car of a train  Segregation legitimized by Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896  Established separate but equal doctrine

5.  W.E.B. Du Bois and the founding of the NAACP  Worked to improve legal rights for Af-Am  CORE or Congress of Racial Equality  Dedicated to nonviolent protests  Truman’s Executive Order to desegregate armed forces  Jackie Robinson

6.  Facilities were grossly unequal  No decent bus transportation  Lack of heating, materials  Legally prohibited from playing together in public

7.  Linda Brown was denied entry to “whites only” school six blocks away  Class Action Lawsuit  “Separate but Equal” violated the Constitution’s guarantee of equal protection of the law  Overturned Plessy v. Ferguson

8.  Majority of whites in South opposed school integration  568 pro-segregation organizations established  Federal gov’t stalled desegregation efforts  Manifesto signed by Congress

9.  Arkansas governor Orval Faubus gained attention for resisting integration  Nine Af-Am enrolled at Central High School  Elizabeth Eckford  Federal troops brought in to assist integration

10.  Segregated Bus System  Rosa Parks refused to make room for a white passenger  Civil Rights leaders decided to boycott the Montgomery buses  Boycott lasted almost a year  Walked  Black taxicabs  Churches bought station wagons  Volunteers carpooled  MLK Jr.  One of the leaders of the Boycotts  Non-violence- a philosophy and a strategy  Supreme Ct. says Alabama’s bus segregation laws are unconstitutional- another victory!

12.  Essential Question: How did the Civil Rights movement begin to make major progress in correcting segregation?