1. Add to your notebook Unit 8 Civil Rights Civil Rights Movement Beginnings (44)1

2. Montgomery Bus Boycott 1950s: Public Busses segregated (Blacks Back/Whites Front)

3. Montgomery Bus Boycott Dec. 1 1955: Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat

4. Montgomery Bus Boycott Martin Luther King Jr. led it 381 days…until segregation on bus declared unconstitutional Carpooling/Taxis/other ways to get around Many threats

5. Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) 1957 Nonviolent resistance towards segregation

6. School Desegregation 1957: Court orders Little Rock Arkansas to integrate schools

7. School Desegregation Arkansas Gov. Orval Faubus ordered Arkansas National Guard to prevent “little rock 9” from entering

8. School Desegregation President Eisenhower orders Federal troops to protect Little Rock 9.

9. School Desegregation Constant Harrassment from white students (rocks, violence, death threats, acid)

10. School Desegregation 1961: James Meredith applies to U. of Mississippi (MS) MS Governor Barnett refused to enroll Meredith JFK sent federal troops to protect Meredith

11. Sit-ins 1960: 4 college students sat in a lunch counter in Greensboro NC -refused service, continued to sit. -hostile treatment from whites April: integration of lunch counters began

13. SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Comission) Civil Disobedience: break unjust laws

14. Freedom Rides 1960: Segregated Transport is illegal CORE organized Freedom Rides to see if segregation was still in south

15. Freedom Rides Mobs met the busses, threw bombs at them, riders attacked, jailed

16. Birmingham, Alabama “Bombingham” – Most Segregated city in USA Nonviolent Resistance –L:etter from Birmingham Jail (MLK)

17. Birmingham, AL Non Violent protests met with arrests Chief Bull Connor-aggressive tactics Childrens March -Firehosed -Broadcast on National TV

18. Birmingham Al May 10 1963—City agrees to desegregation Backlash from KKK—16 th St. Baptist Church Bombing killed 4 girls

19. 1963 March on Washington 250,000 marched on Washington MLK -- “I have A Dream” speech

20. 1964 Civil Rights Act Banned discrimination based on Race, Sex, and Origin. President Johnson

21. Freedom Summer 24 th Amendment bans Poll Tax & Literacy Tests CORE and SNCC organzied Freedom Summer, to help blacks register to vote

22. Freedom Summer Many white college students from North came down to help with registration. Beatings, Threats 3 students went Missing, found dead ->

23. March to Selma SCLC called March from Selma to Montgomery AL to meet with Gov. Met at Bridge by State Troopers, Beaten.

24. Voting Rights Act 1965 Banned Literacy Tests Federal Gov. to supervise Elections in historically Discriminatory areas.

25. Civil Rights Road Map (Ch. 44) -Montgomery Bus Boycott (Sec. 2) -School Desegregation (Little Rock 9, James Meredith) (Sec. 3) -Sit Ins (Sec. 4) -Freedom Rides. (Sec. 4) -Birmingham Campaign (Sec. 5) -March on Washington (Sec. 6) -Civil Rights Act 1964 (Sec. 7) -Voting Rights Act 1965 (Sec. 7)