Civil Rights

In this chapter you will explore how African Americans rose up against the treatment they had endured for decades and demanded civil rights.

Learning Goals

Essential Question

In what ways did African Americans fight discrimination during the civil rights era?

Objectives

Explain the efforts to end segregation.

Point out the victories of the civil rights movement.

Discuss how the movement changed over time.

Taking on Segregation Thurgood Marshall

Key lawyer of the NAACP & first African American Supreme Court judge

Fought to desegregate schools in Brown v. Board of Education

Rosa Parks Started Montgomery Bus Boycott by refusing to sit in the

back of bus.

Martin Luther King, Jr. Ordained minister, soul & conscious of civil rights

movement.

Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee College students join the movement to try and speed up

the changes.

Sit-in Black and white students would sit at segregated

lunch tables and not move unless they were served equally.

The Triumphs of a Crusade

Freedom Riders Civil rights activists who rode buses through

the South in the early 1960s to challenge segregation.

Civil Rights Act of 1964 Banned discrimination based on race, sex,

national origin, or religion in public places and most workplaces.

Freedom Summer 1964 project to register African-American

voters in Mississippi.

Voting Rights Act of 1965 Law making it easier for African-Americans to

register to vote by eliminating discriminatory literacy tests and allowing for federal registration.

Challenges & Changes in the Movement Malcolm X

Islamic leader who wanted to segregate from white America.

Nation of Islam Whites were the cause of the “black condition” led

by Elijah Muhammad and the black Muslims.

Black Panthers Organization to fight police brutality in the ghetto.

Civil Rights Act of 1968 Banned discrimination in housing.

Affirmative Action Seeks to correct the effects of past discrimination by

favoring the groups who were previously disadvantaged.