1. APUSH: Civil Rights Movement

2. Essential Questions
Who were the individuals and groups that had an impact on the civil rights movement?
What approaches and methods were used in attempting to advance the civil rights movement?
What was the impact of Brown vs. the Board of Education and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 on the Civil Rights movement?

3. What did the Civil Rights Act of 1875 do?
Outlawed segregation in all public facilities in the United States
Was this law followed in the South?

4. Jim Crow Laws “Separate but equal”
Emmitt Till
Jackie Robinson
NAACP
Thurgood Marshall
Rosa Parks
Martin Luther King, Jr.
March on Washington
Earl Warren
Brown Case
Orval Faubus
Little Rock Central HS
SCLC
SNCC
“sit ins”
Freedom Riders
Medgar Evers

5. How did the Supreme Court rule in the Plessy vs. Ferguson case?
The court upheld Louisiana's “separate but equal” segregation laws
Basically legalizes segregation in 1896

6. In what three ways did WW II help set the stage for the Civil Rights movement?
Opened up job opportunities for African Americans in the U.S.
Black soldiers returning home ready to fight for increased freedom & an end to discrimination
Civil rights groups campaign for equal rights during the war
A. Philip Randolph

7. Brown vs. the Board of Education
Who argued the Brown case?
Thurgood Marshall and the NAACP
What did the Brown ruling declare?
Segregation is unconstitutional and illegal
Brown overturns Plessy vs. Ferguson
Thurgood Marshall

8. What organization was formed to support Rosa Parks?
The Montgomery Improvement Association
What did this organization do?
Organized the Montgomery Bus Boycott
Rosa Parks

9. How did President Eisenhower respond to the Little Rock Crisis?
Placed the Arkansas National Guard under federal control and sent in troops to force the integration of Little Rock Central High School

10. SCLC Southern Christian Leadership Conference Who was its president?
Martin Luther King, Jr.
What was the SCLC’s purpose?
Carry out non-violent protests and to crusade against racism

11. SNCC Student Nonviolent Coordination Committee
What did SNCC accomplish?
Desegregated lunch counters in the south through sit ins

12. Freedom Summer 1964 What was the goal of the Freedom Summer Project?
1. Register African American Voters across the south
2. Elect pro civil rights politicians to the gov’t
Who volunteered to help?
College students and SNCC staff – Freedom Riders

13. Civil Rights Act of 1964
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 made it illegal to discriminate based on race, religion, national origin, and sex

14. Voting Rights Act of 1965 “We shall overcome”
What did this accomplish?
Outlawed literacy tests and poll taxes
Allowed federal gov’t to take over state elections
Only 10% of southern blacks voted in 1964
60% of southern blacks voted in 1968

15. Black Power
Malcolm X
Stokely Carmichael