1. Civil Rights Movement

2. Causes

3. Brown v. The Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas African-American girl who had to travel several miles to a segregated public school everyday even though she lived virtually next door to a public school (white only)

4. Brown v. Board (cont.) “Brown II” delivered a year later: schools were to be desegregated “with all deliberate speed” (Problem, what does this “deliberate speed” mean?)

5. “Massive Resistance” in the South

6. Little Rock, Arkansas 1957 President Eisenhower responded by federalizing the National Guard and sending troops to Little Rock to restore order and ensure that the court orders would be obeyed

7. Expanding Protest December 1, 1955 Rosa Parks is arrested in Montgomery, Alabama Martin Luther King, Jr chosen to head the bus boycott –

8. Expanding Protest Cont’d encouraged African Americans to engage in peaceful demonstrations and allow themselves to be beaten and arrested if necessary Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) Pressure from the courts, northern liberals, and black citizens sped the pace of racial change in other areas –