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Jim Crow South

Jim Crow South. Dred Scott Decision of 1854 Sojourner Truth Grandfather Clause Poll Tax Literacy test. Civil Rights. Ralph Abernathy Worked with MLK Jr. Helped organize the Bus Boycott after Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat. Civil Rights.

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Jim Crow South

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  1. Jim Crow South • Dred Scott Decision of 1854 • Sojourner Truth • Grandfather Clause • Poll Tax • Literacy test

  2. Civil Rights • Ralph Abernathy • Worked with MLK Jr. • Helped organize the Bus Boycott after Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat

  3. Civil Rights • 1962, when Hamer was 44 years old, SNCC (Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee)volunteers came to town and held a voter registration meeting. • When the SNCC members asked for volunteers to go to the courthouse to register to vote, Hamer was the first to raise her hand. • At the courthouse, she was shot at. Received death threats and was kicked off the plantation where she was a sharecropper

  4. Civil Rights • Eldridge Cleaver • Activist and member of the Black Panther Party • Began in Caliornia by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale for civil rights and self-defense

  5. Civil Rights • Medgar Evers: secretary for NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored Peoples) • Murdered by a member of the KKK • Bob Dylan “Only a Pawn in their Game” Only a Pawn In Their Game 3:29 Bob Dylan The Times They Are A-Changin' (Remastered) Rock

  6. Civil Rights • Thurgood Marshall • As a lawyer argued for desegregation in Brown v. Board • Later became the first African-American on the Supreme Court

  7. Civil Rights • James Meredith • 1st African-American student to attend University of Mississippi • Led to riots which left 2 dead, 48 U.S. soldiers injured and 30 U.S. Marshals with gun wounds

  8. Civil Rights • Emmit Till • Went to spend a summer with great uncle • Brutally murdered as a 14 year old for whistling at a white woman

  9. Civil Rights • A Philip Randoph • Started the first African-American labor union: Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters • Image

  10. Origins of KKK • 1865: Pulaski, Tennessee by six educated middle class confederates against Reconstruction

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