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Before: Journal

Before: Journal. Have you ever been treated unfairly? ( What Happened? How did it make you feel? How did you react?).

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Before: Journal

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  1. Before: Journal Have you ever been treated unfairly? (What Happened? How did it make you feel? How did you react?)

  2. Civil Rights:The rights belonging to an individual by virtue of citizenship, including civil liberties, due process, equal protection of the laws, and freedom from discrimination.

  3. Civil Liberties: one's freedom to exercise one's rights as guaranteed under the laws of the country • Due Process: the administration of justice according to established rules and principles; based on the principle that a person cannot be deprived of life or liberty or property without appropriate legal procedures and safeguards • Discrimination: unfair treatment of a person or group on the basis of prejudice • Prejudice: a preference that prevents neutral consideration of an issue or situation

  4. Civil Rights:The rights belonging to an individual by virtue of citizenship, including the right to legal and social and economic equality.

  5. Civil Rights:The rights belonging to a by virtue of citizenship, including the right to legal and social and economic equality.

  6. Should students with disabilities be allowed to participate in school sports?

  7. Should women be allowed to serve in combat?

  8. Should the Boy Scouts be allowed to exclude gay troop leaders?

  9. The Civil Rights Movement 1954-1968

  10. Since 1909, the NAACP has been supporting court cases to overturn segregation. • Norris v Alabama: (1935) the Supreme Court decided that excluding African Americans from serving on juries would violate their right to equal protection under the law. Pg. 1082 • Morgan v Virginia: (1946) Supreme Court stated that segregation on interstate buses was unconstitutional. Pg. 1082 • Sweatt v Painter: (1950) Supreme Court stated that state law schools had to admit qualified African American applicants, even if comparable black law schools existed. Pg. 1083

  11. A large number of African Americans moved from the ________to the _________. Why? • Many African Americans supported the Democratic Party. This division of the party became strong enough to counter the branch known as the Southern Democrats, or___________, who supported segregation. • Local communities could decide whether or not to pass segregation laws. Even if there were no laws on the books, many areas practiced de-facto segregation, or segregation by custom and tradition. • In 1942, (CORE) Congress of Racial Equality was formed. They began using sit-ins, or protests involving occupying seats or sitting on the floor of establishments. Their efforts would integrate many restaurants in major cities in the North.

  12. Linda Brown Page 1077: Read

  13. Emmett Till

  14. Torture Store Owner MURDER Trial Whistle Kidnap

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