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Hello! Today is 4/03/13
Notebook Paper Warm Up When you don’t like a rule or the way
something has been going, how do you try to change it?
Think about examples at home, at school and outside of school.
What we’re going to do today
Agenda– Warm Up– Activity: Notes Posters & Images– Closure
By the end of class, you will learn about the tools (or ways) people used to fight for the civil rights of African Americans during the CRM.
By the end of class, you will learn about the tools (or ways) people used to fight for the civil rights of African Americans during the CRM.
Tool DescriptionExamples &
LeadersMy Opinion
Tools Used by the Civil Rights Movement Making CHANGE Happen
SUMMARY: In my opinion, the best way to make change happen is . .
Tool DescriptionExamples &
LeadersMy Opinion
Many people gather in a public place to show they want change (peacefully)
People break a law on purpose (& accept the consequences) to show they disagree with itPeople stop using or buying a service or product they believe is unfair or unjust
People use lawyers to argue laws are against the Constitution of the U.S.
People respond with violence when they are victims of violence to fight injustice
Tools Used by the Civil Rights Movement Making CHANGE Happen
SUMMARY: In my opinion, the best way to make change happen is . .
TOOL: Organized Protests
• Many people gather in a public place to show they want change (peacefully)
Examples: Children’s March in
BirminghamSelma to Montgomery
March (1965)MLK Jr.’s March on
Washington (1963) March on Washington for “jobs and freedom”; August 28th – where King gave his “I Have a Dream” speech
Selma to Montgomery March (1965)
• March for voting rights• Began with 3,200
marchers• 12 miles per day• Ended with 25,000
marchers• Voting Rights Act
passed 5 months later
1959 "Pilgrimage of Prayer" from Richmond, VA to
Washington, DC to protest the closing of public schools in
Virginia to avoid court- ordered desegregation
Freedom march by Claflin and South Carolina State College students, 1956.
TOOL: Civil Disobedience
• People break a law on purpose (& accept the consequences) to show they disagree with it)
Examples: Rosa ParksSit InsFreedom Rides (CORE)Martin Luther King, Jr.
Woolworth sit-in, Jackson, MS. May 28, 1963
Peoples Drug store, Arlington, VA. 1960. They closed the lunch counter rather than serve Black students
Freedom Rides
Organized by CORE, two integrated groups of Freedom Riders enter Alabama on May 14, 1961. One bus is ambushed and burned by a racist mob outside of Anniston.
Rosa Parks• Her arrest sparked the
Montgomery Bus Boycott• NAACP – National Association
for the Advancement of Colored People
TOOL: Boycotts
• People stop using or buying a service or product they believe is unfair or unjust
• Examples: Montgomery Bus
BoycottJim Crow Businesses
Richmond, VA. 1960
During the bus boycott, leaders of the Montgomery Improvement Association organized a carpooling system to provide transportation to boycotters.
TOOL: Legislation (Court Cases)• People use lawyers to
argue laws are against the Constitution of the U.S.
• Examples: Plessy vs. Ferguson
(1896)Brown vs. Board of
Education (1954)NAACP
Let’s Remember: Plessy vs. Ferguson, 1896
• What did law did Homer Plessy break? How did he break it?
• What rights does the 14th Amendment provide? Why did Plessy believe that the Separate Car Act violated these rights?
• What was the result?
The Little Rock Nine, Arkansas, 1957
Ruby Bridges, New Orleans, 1960
Brown vs. Board of
Education (1954)
National Association for
the Advancement of Colored People
(NAACP)
On their first day of school, troops from the Arkansas National Guard would not let them enter the school and they were followed by mobs making threats to lynch
TOOL: Violence
• People respond with violence when they are victims of violence to fight injustice
• Examples: Malcolm X (“any
means necessary”)Black Panther Party
Tool Description Examples & Leaders
Organized Protests
Many people gather in a public place to show they want change (peacefully)
Children’s March in BirminghamSelma to Montgomery March
Civil Disobedience
People break a law on purpose (& accept the consequences) to show they disagree with it
Rosa ParksSit-InsFreedom RidesMLK Jr.
Boycotts People stop using or buying a service or product they believe is unfair or unjust
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Legislation (Court Cases)
People use lawyers to argue laws are against the Constitution of the U.S.
Plessy vs. Ferguson (1896)Brown vs. Board of Education (1954)NAACP
Violence People respond with violence when they are victims of violence to fight injustice
Malcolm X Black Panther PartyPolice
Tools Used by the Civil Rights Movement Making CHANGE Happen
“I Have a Dream” Speech – MLK Jr.
And so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal."