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The Civil Rights Movement

The Civil Rights Movement. 1954-1968. What happened before this????. Plessy vs. Ferguson Courts Ruled that “Separate but Equal” IS Constitutional PROBLEM Not equal facilities Jim Crow Laws Public Segregation. Important People lead to integration. Jackie Robinson (1947)

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The Civil Rights Movement

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  1. The Civil Rights Movement 1954-1968

  2. What happened before this???? • Plessy vs. Ferguson • Courts Ruled that “Separate but Equal” IS Constitutional • PROBLEM • Not equal facilities • Jim Crow Laws • Public Segregation

  3. Important People lead to integration • Jackie Robinson (1947) • 1stBlack American to play Major League Baseball

  4. THURGOOD MARSHALL • Thurgood Marshall • Legal Defense in Brown vs. Board of Education • Became 1stBlack American Supreme Court Justice

  5. Important Civil Rights LEADERS • Martin Luther King Jr. • Advocated for: • Nonviolence • Civil Disobedience • Strikes • Sit Ins • Equality • Assassinated (1968) • James Earl Ray • Sniper • Memphis

  6. “Sit In” • Example of Civil Disobedience • Peaceful • African Americans and white protestors would sit at the “whites only” lunch-counters, restaurants, and other public facilities

  7. Important Civil Rights LEADERS Continued… • Malcolm X • Militant Leader • Advocated “Black Power” • Assassinated (1965) • 21 Gunshot wounds • Multiple Guns • Nation of Islam • Separate themselves from whites and form their own governing communities

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