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