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UNIT 15

UNIT 15. African – American Civil Rights Movement. Evolution of the Civil Rights Movement. Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation During Civil War it declared all enslaved persons in states rebelling against the Union to be free Post Civil War Amendments

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UNIT 15

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  1. UNIT 15 African – American Civil Rights Movement

  2. Evolution of the Civil Rights Movement Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation • During Civil War it declared all enslaved persons in states rebelling against the Union to be free Post Civil War Amendments • 13th - abolished slavery • 14th- defined a US citizen and could not deny them rights • 15th- states could not deny right to vote to any male US citizen over 21

  3. Roots of the Civil Rights Movement Booker T. Washington • born into slavery • began Tuskegee Institute in Alabama • promoted education for African-Americans as the way to progress W.E.B. Dubois • pushed for civil rights progress • formed the NAACP to push for legal methods to end racial discrimination

  4. Milestones of the African-American Civil Rights Movement Brown vs. Board of Education Topeka, Kansas (1954) Issue: • Dispute over separate educational facilities not being equal Decision: • Ruling stated that educational facilities were in fact not equal • Ruling reversed the landmark Plessy vs. Ferguson case - Schools had to allow african-americans to attend

  5. Montgomery Bus Boycott Rosa Parks: African American women arrested in Montgomery, Alabama for violating local law by sitting in the front section of a public bus Martin Luther King Jr.: local minister in a Montgomery Baptist Church when Rosa Parks was arrested -urged local african-americans to use non-violent methods to fight segregation -organized a boycott against the bus system that lasted for a year which worked causing bus company to end its policy of segregation

  6. Crisis at Little Rock • Governor ordered National Guard troops to prevent the admittance of African American students into little Rock High School • President Eisenhower ordered Federal Troops to escort the students into the schools Civil Rights Act of 1957 • Passed by Congress to protect the right of African-Americans to vote Civil Rights Act of 1964 • Strongest Civil Rights law ever passed by Congress • Segregation outlawed by Congress in most public places • Equal access to all public places for all citizens

  7. March on Washington • A rally to support President Kennedy’s Civil Rights Bill • Over 200,000 people marched on the Mall in DC • MLK gave his “I Have a Dream” speech 24th Amendment • Prohibited Congress or states from implementing conditions to vote – such as a poll tax Black Power • Frustrated with non-violent movement, some looked for increased black pride and black nationalism through violence • Malcolm X/Black Muslims-advocated black nationalism-self govn’t for a black society

  8. Affirmative Action • President Johnson signed an executive order requiring employers with federal contracts to take “affirmative action” to hire more women, African Americans, Hispanics, Native Americans, and Asian Americans • Meant to correct past injustices by giving preferences to these groups in employment opportunities, as well as college admissions

  9. Assignment In the workbook finish pg.113 Definitions: Civil Rights Affirmative Action

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