honors chapters 21 the civil rights movement (1954-1968) ( civil rights: the rights of personal...

Honors Chapters 21

The Civil Rights Movement (1954-1968)( Civil Rights: The rights of personal liberty, guaranteed to U.S. citizens by the

13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments and by acts of Congress.)

I. The Fight Begins: Taking on Segregation

(p. 696 – 699; 705 – 706)

A. Segregation -

1. Civil Rights Act of 1875; unconstitutional in 1883

2. Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) -

a. 14th Amendment -

b. Jim Crow laws -

"Come listen all you galls and boys, I'm going to sing a little song,My name is Jim Crow.Weel about and turn about and do jis so,Eb'ry time I weel about I jump Jim Crow."

• http://watch.wqed.org/video/1337330740/

B. Desegregation

1. Brown v. Board of Education (1954) -

a. N.A.A.C.P. (1909) / Thurgood Marshall

b. separate can never be equal

2. reaction

a. Emmett Till (1955) -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8QXNyCvDP4

b. Little Rock (1957) / George Wallace -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2a32Uc1oP7s

c. Ruby Bridges (1960) –

d. James Meredith (1962) -

II. The Fight Continues: Key Events in the Civil Rights Movement (p. 700 – 710)

A. dejure segregation –

B. Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955) -

1. Rosa Parks -

2. Martin Luther King Jr. / S.C.L.C. (1957) –

a. nonviolent resistance -

3. Supreme Court outlaws bus

segregation (1956)

C. sit-ins

1. CORE (1942) -

2. Greensboro, NC (1960)

3. SNCC -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCwz5-OFYmA

D. freedom riders (1961)

1. violence

2. protection of U.S. marshals

3. banned segregation in all interstate travel facilities

E. Birmingham (1963)

1. Letter from the Birmingham Jail -

2. Children’s March / “Bull” Connor -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJ7k4wMdV5g

3. bombing of 16th Street Baptist Church -

F. March on Washington (1963) -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOtYYreHHZQ

G. Freedom Summer (1964) -

1. Robert Moses / Mississippi -

2. murder of 3 civil rights workers -

H. Civil Rights Act of 1964

I. Selma (1965)

1. Jim Clark / Jimmie Lee Jackson -

2. 1st march (March 7th) / “Bloody Sunday” -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k598SPRGqiI&list=PL54E3F4805710A187

3. 2nd march (March 21st) / Viola Liuzzo -

J. Voting Rights Act of 1965 -

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/tools.html

http://www.docstoc.com/docs/26764147/1965-Alabama-Literacy-Test---PDF

K. Civil Rights Act of 1968 -

III. The Fight Continues: Challenges & Changes

(p. 711 - 717)

A. defacto segregation -

1. Watts Riot (1965) -

2. economic equality: opportunities in

jobs, housing, & education

3. Kerner Commission (1968) -

“Our nation is moving toward two societies, one black, one white – separate and unequal.”

B. alternatives to nonviolence

1. Nation of Islam (Elijah Muhammad) / Malcolm X -

a. Organization for Afro American Unity /

“Ballots or Bullets” -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBS416EZsKM

2. Stokely Carmichael / Black Power

“a call for black people to define their own goals . . . to lead their own organizations”

3. Bobby Seale & Huey Newton / Black Panthers (1966)

IV. The Legacy