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Civil Rights Movement

Civil Rights Movement. Essential Question: How did the Civil Rights movement begin to make major progress in correcting segregation? . 1954 - 1968. Jim Crow Laws. Laws that selectively discriminated against Af -Am Af-Ams were prevented from voting KKK regularly lynched Af - Am.

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Civil Rights Movement

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

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

  3. Segregation Legalized • Homer Plessywas an octoroon • Boarded a whites only car of a train • Segregation legitimized by Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896 • Established separate but equal doctrine

  4. Civil Rights Prior to 1954 • 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

  5. School Segregation in the South • Facilities were grossly unequal • No decent bus transportation • Lack of heating, materials • Legally prohibited from playing together in public

  6. Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas • 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

  7. White Resistance to School Integration • Majority of whites in South opposed school integration • 568 pro-segregation organizations established • Federal gov’t stalled desegregation efforts • Manifesto signed by Congress

  8. Little Rock Nine • Arkansas governor OrvalFaubus gained attention for resisting integration • Nine Af-Am enrolled at Central High School • Elizabeth Eckford • Federal troops brought in to assist integration

  9. Montgomery Bus Boycott • 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!

  10. Talk to your neighbor: • Essential Question: How did the Civil Rights movement begin to make major progress in correcting segregation?

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