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The Civil Rights Movement: 1953 - 1969

The Civil Rights Movement: 1953 - 1969. Pre-Movement Conditions in the South. Watch: “Never Lose Sight of Freedom” “Rights Denied,” “A Change is Gonna Come”. The Beginnings of the Movement. Why a Civil Rights Movement now? Brown v. Board of Education, 1954. The Early Movement. 1955-1965.

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The Civil Rights Movement: 1953 - 1969

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  1. The Civil Rights Movement: 1953 - 1969

  2. Pre-Movement Conditions in the South Watch: “Never Lose Sight of Freedom” “Rights Denied,” “A Change is Gonna Come”

  3. The Beginnings of the Movement Why a Civil Rights Movement now? Brown v. Board of Education, 1954

  4. The Early Movement 1955-1965

  5. The Role of Birmingham, Alabama • The Role of Churches • Community • Worship • Support Black Businesses • Meeting place for movement business • Leadership • Fred Shuttlesworth – “we cannot brag for our success because we are simply doing God’s will” • James Abernathy

  6. Montgomery Bus Boycott -1955 Rosa Parks refuses to leave her seat Boycott begins Carpool System

  7. Emmett Till Case, 1955

  8. Emergence of Martin Luther King “Soul Force” 1957: Founds SCLC Forms a partnership with Alabama leaders

  9. September, 1957 – The Little Rock Nine

  10. 1960 – Sit Ins Begin February: North Carolina April: Formation of SNCC

  11. 1961: Freedom Rides CORE formed

  12. October 1961 James Meredith breaks the color barrier at Universities

  13. 1963: Birmingham Demonstrations in Birmingham Begin

  14. King in Jail “Letter from a Birmingham Jail”

  15. May 1963 Children’s Crusade in Birmingham The Role of the Radio The role of the church

  16. June 11, 1963 Wallace at the University of Alabama “I say segregation now! Segregation tomorrow! Segregation Forever!” ~ Alabama governor George Wallace, 1963

  17. August 28, 1963: I Have a Dream!

  18. September 15, 1963 Church Bombings

  19. Freedom Summer - 1964 Intent was to help blacks register without fear of intimidation or unfair tests Death of Civil Rights Workers in Philadelphia, Mississippi

  20. Voter Registration as a Result of the Freedom Summer

  21. 1964: Bullets or Ballots? Rise of Malcolm X

  22. 1965 – The March from Selma to Montgomery February 1, 1965

  23. March 7, 1965: Bloody Sunday

  24. The Later Movement 1966: the fight for defacto segregation

  25. 1966: The Black Panther Movement Begins

  26. 1966: Black Power Emerges Mexico City, 1968 Race Riots emerge in inner cities

  27. 1967: Thurgood Marshall Legal cases pre-Supreme Court Major Supreme Court decisions

  28. 1968: The Death of Martin Luther King, Jr.

  29. March 1, 1968: Kerner Commission

  30. Results of the Civil Rights Movement See pg. 920 in text

  31. Controversies over Civil Rights Segregation was still the rule until the 1970s Affirmative Action

  32. Justice is Served 2001: Sixteenth Street Baptist Church Bombers Rearrested and tried

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