naacp: national association for the advancement of colored people
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CHAPTER 29
NAACP:NationalAssociation for theAdvancement ofColored People
Plessy v. Ferguson
Separate but equal1896
Thurgood Marshall:Chief lawyer for the NAACP
Brown v. Board of Education
Began integration in the schools
Little Rock, Arkansas…1957The Little Rock Nine
Little Rock governor Orval Faubus opposed integration
President Eisenhower...
Sent hundreds of soldiers to patrol the school grounds and protect the students.
When did Rosa Park refuse to give up her seat on the bus?
December 1, 1955(lasted 1 year)Boycott: A refusal to use-the city’s buses75% of riders were AfricanAmerican
He followed tactics of:A. Phillip Randolph
and Gandhi
Who assassinated him?James Earl Ray in Memphis
Famous speech: I have a dream…Retracing_Dr__King_s_Steps_in_Memphis.asf ***He became the leader of the civil rights movement.
S C L CSouthern Christian Leadership Conference
started by King and 60 ministers – non violent protest
Mohandas Gandhi…..He used nonviolent protestto help India gain independence from Great Britain.civil disobedience:The refusal to obey the ways that are considered unjust.
Richard Nixon
John Kennedy
Section 2
35th president
U.S. Navy –WW II
U.S. Senator 1946/Mass.
Wrote Profiles in Courage (about difficult decisions)
New Frontier
Assassinated byLee Harvey Oswald while in Dallas, TX
First Catholic President of the U.S.
Kennedy – 49.7%Nixon – 49.5%
New Frontier
Social programsMore money for educationHelp poor people get jobsHelp African Americans fight for civil rights
The Assassination…
November 22, 1963Dallas, TexasLee Harvey OswaldOswald killed by Jack Ruby
Kennedy’s Vice President:Lyndon Johnson
“Great Society”
W AR
ON
POVERTY
22 years in Congress
Head Start
Upward Bound -
Job Corps
VISTA - Volunteers in Service to America
Preschool education
Helped poor kids attend college
Training to young people who want work
HUD
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Helped fund public housing projects
Civil Rights Act of 1964Prohibited discrimination against African Americans in employment, voting, and public accommodations.
Medicare: helped pay for medial care for senior citizens
Medicaid: helped poor people pay hospital bills.
Section 3
SNCC
tudent
onviolentoordination
ommittee
FREEDOM
Riders
Sit ins
Who wrote Profiles in Courage?
Kennedy
The lawyer for the NAACP that challenged the idea of “separate but equal”
Thurgood Marshall
1st African American to enroll at the University of Mississippi?
James Meredith
Gov. George Wallace at the University of Alabama
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