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Taking on Segregation. “…in the field of public education the doctrine of ‘separate but equal’ has no place. Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.” -Chief Justice Earl Warren in the Brown v. Board decision. Section 29-1 pp. 906-915. The Segregation System. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Taking on Segregation
Section 29-1pp. 906-915
“…in the field of public education the doctrine of ‘separate but equal’ has no place. Separate
educational facilities are inherently unequal.”-Chief Justice Earl Warren in the Brown v. Board
decision
The Segregation System • Jim Crow laws kept African
Americans living as second class citizens
• WWII and Civil Rights– New jobs– Served in military– FDR outlawed discrimination
Challenging Segregation in Court• NAACP
– Legal team headed by Thurgood Marshall
– Challenged segregation through court cases
Challenging Segregation in Court• Brown v. Board of
Education (1954) – Outlawed
segregation in public schools
• Brown II (1955)– Ordered
integration to happen more quickly
Reaction to Brown• Little Rock Nine
(1957)– AR Gov. refused to
integrate schools– Eisenhower sends
National Guard to escort students to school
The Montgomery Bus Boycott– First organized
movement to fight segregation
– Led by Dr. M.L. King– In 1956, the
Supreme Court ruled segregated buses illegal
Rosa Parks Interviewed Rosa Parks challenged
discrimination on city buses
Martin Luther King and the SCLC• Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
– Promoted • Nonviolence• Civil disobedience
– Methods• Huge demonstrations• Boycotts
– 1957: Formed SCLC Dr. King riding an integrated bus in
Montgomery in 1956.
Martin Luther King and the SCLC• SNCC
– Formed to involve college students in the civil rights movement
– Sit-Ins• Often provoked
angry whites• Won sympathy for
protestors
Riding for Freedom • Freedom Riders
(1961)– Rode buses to protest
segregation – RFK and JFK sent 400
US marshals to protect riders
– Segregation banned in travel facilities
Standing Firm • James Meredith
– Gov. refused to let him enter Univ. of Miss.
– JFK sent US marshals to let him in
Standing Firm • The Birmingham
Campaign– Protestors viciously
attacked by police– Milestones
• Poor blacks join demand for equality
• Moderate whites in north and south begin supporting desegregation
Marching to Washington• March in D.C.
(1963)– 250,000 demand
immediate passage of civil rights bill
– “I Have a Dream” Speech
– Civil Rights Act passed in 1964
Fighting for Voting Rights• Freedom Summer
– Student volunteers register voters Mississippi
– Led to violence and murder
• 24th Amendment: Banned poll tax