Civil Rights 1860s-1960s• Jim Crow Laws – 1880’s• Plessy Vs. Ferguson - 1896• Chapter 20 – pages 622-624• Booker T. Washington – 1880s-90s – focused on

improving education and economy for blacks – Tuskegee Institute

• Lynching• Ida B. Wells - Lynching• W.E.B. DuBois – founded NAACP (National Association

for the Advancement of Colored People) in 1909. Focused on fighting segregation and discrimination

• Page 709 - Marcus Garvey – Back to Africa movement• UNIA – Universal Negro Improvement Association

Booker T. Washington

Marcus Garvey

W.E.B. Du Bois

Lynching

Ida B. Wells

• Chapter 27 – pages 832-837 - World War II began the process of integration – Committee on Civil Rights – military desegregated in 1948

• Sweatt vs. Painter – 1950• Brown vs. Board of Education – 1954 –

Thurgood Marshall – ruled segregation in public schools was illegal

• 1955 – Emmett Till• 1955 – Montgomery Bus Boycott – Rosa Parks –

Dec. 1, 1955• Martin Luther King Jr. – Civil Disobedience• 1957 – Little Rock Nine

Linda Brown (Left) and family

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Emmett Till

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Thurgood Marshall

Rosa Parks

Martin Luther King Jr.

Little RockNine

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Dwight Eisenhower

• Chapter 28 – Pages 855-865 - February 1, 1960 – Greensboro sit-in

• SNCC – Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

• May 1961 – Freedom Rides – Congress of Racial Equality – CORE

• 1962 – James Meredith – University of Mississippi

• Southern Christian Leadership Conference – SCLC – Martin Luther King Jr.

• 1963 – “Letter from Birmingham Jail” – King’s belief in non-violence

• 1963 – Children’s March – Birmingham. Alabama

• August 28, 1963 – March on Washington – “I Have A Dream” speech

• Birmingham Bombing – September 1963

• JFK assassinated on November 22, 1963

• Lyndon B. Johnson - takes over as President – Civil Rights is a major issue for his Presidency

Greensboro Sit-In

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Freedom Riders

James Meredith

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Children’s March

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March on Washington

Birmingham Bombing

Lyndon B. Johnson

• Civil Rights Act of 1964 – banned segregation in all public places

• Freedom Summer – 1964 – murders of three civil rights workers, March on Selma, Ala.

• Voting Rights Act of 1965 – made voting discrimination illegal – poll taxes/literacy tests

• Malcolm X – Nation of Islam – favored black separatism

• Elijah Muhammad, Louis Farrakhan• February 21, 1965 – Malcolm X assassinated• Black Power Movement – rejected integration• August 1965 – Watts riot• April 4, 1968 – Martin Luther King Jr.

assassinated• Chicano Movement – Cesar Chavez

Freedom Summer

March on Selma

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Malcolm X

Louis Farrakhan

Cesar Chavez

Elijah Muhammad

Black Power Movement

Watts Riot - 1965

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Malcolm X’sassassination

Martin Luther King’s Assassination