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History of the Civil Rights Movement. MacCarthy. Essential Questions. What court cases and laws effected the Civil Rights movement before 1954? Create a bubble map to describe these issues How did desegregation play a role during the Civil Rights movement before 1954? - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
HISTORY OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
MacCarthy
Essential Questions What court cases and laws effected the
Civil Rights movement before 1954?Create a bubble map to describe these
issues
How did desegregation play a role during the Civil Rights movement before 1954?Create a Tree map listing examples of
desegregation
Early on Why did many African Americans come to
America? Slavery
Great Awakening-Religious Movement All people are equal
Enlightenment-Knowledge and Reason All people have Natural Rights
Early on Many people doubted the idea of slavery
Slavery began to go away across the world
Except in the South of the US
Why?
The South Agricultural Economy
The Cotton Gin
Dred Scott v. Sandford
Slaves=Property
Brainpop
Civil War Slavery one of many issues
Emancipation Proclamation, what did it do?
13th Amendment Bans Slavery
14th Amendment Citizenship for anyone born in the US
15th Amendment Right to vote for all citizens
Afterwards
So was everything good then?
Did everyone have equal Rights?
What other problems do you remember?
Afterwards KKK and other hate groups
Jim Crow Laws Laws created to separate blacks and whites in
public spaceshttp://www.nps.gov/malu/forteachers/jim_crow_laws.htm
Plessy v. Ferguson “Separate but Equal”
Times Changing 19th Amendment
Women’s Right to Vote
Ideas of Segregation changing
WWII, what changed? Tuskegee Airmen No racial discrimination in hiring for
government jobs
Times Changing Minorities moving to major cities during &
after WWII
Truman attacks Civil Rights: Ends racial discrimination and segregation
in the Armed Forces Tries to end poll taxes Make anti-lynching laws
Jackie Robinson: Brainpop
Essential Questions
What court cases and laws effected the Civil Rights movement before 1954?
How did desegregation play a role during the Civil Rights movement before 1954?