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Frederick Douglass
William Lloyd Garrison
Civil Rights
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Plessy vs. Ferguson
Jim Crow
Civil Rights
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WEB Dubois
Booker T. Washington
Civil Rights
THE CIVIL RIGHTS
MOVEMENT
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Segregation under Jim Crow
Story of Emmitt Till
Mourners pass Emmett Till's
casket in Chicago Sept. 3,
1955.
Strange Fruit
Southern trees bear strange fruit,
Blood on the leaves and blood at the root,
Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze,
Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees.
Pastoral scene of the gallant south,
The bulging eyes and the twisted mouth,
Scent of magnolias, sweet and fresh,
Then the sudden smell of burning flesh.
Here is fruit for the crows to pluck,
For the rain to gather, for the wind to suck,
For the sun to rot, for the trees to drop,
Here is a strange and bitter crop.
Jackie Robinson
Jackie Robinson
In his years in the
minors, he was hit by
many pitches, thrown
out and forced to leave
games. Many of his
games were cancelled
because he was black.
In 1947 he became the
first African American
to play in the major
leagues.
Executive Order 9981 (1948)
Brown v. Board of Education
On May 17, 1954, the Supreme Court ruled in the Brown v. Board of Education trial the “separate facilities are inherently unequal.”
This over turned the Plessy v. Ferguson decision that said that segregation was legal as long as the facilities were “separate but equal.”
Central High School Little Rock,
Arkansas
“Little Rock 9”
National Guardsmen escorting the “Little
Rock Nine” to register for classes, Sept.
1957.
Rally at Arkansas state capital protesting the
desegregation of Central High School, 1957.
Integration: Students’ Reactions
1954: Students in an integrated classroom
in Fort Myer, Va., the year of Brown v.
Board of Education..
1961: Charlene Hunter studying in Myers
Hall, her dormitory at the University of
Georgia. Charlene is one of the first two
African Americans to attend the previously
all-white school.
Resistance to Civil Rights Legislation:
George Wallace
Wallace standing against desegregation while
being confronted by Deputy U.S. Attorney
General Nicholas Katzenbachat the University of
Alabama in 1963.
George Wallace
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Reactions to Integration
The Montgomery Bus Boycott
In December 1955, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white passenger, and she was arrested for it.
The boycott called on all African Americans in Montgomery, Alabama to not ride the bus system until the bus company changed its segregation policy.
It worked.
The boycott introduced non-violent protest to the American landscape.
Stages of Protest
Rosa Parks is fingerprinted by Deputy
Sherriff Lackey in Montgomery on
February 22 in 1956 two months after
refusing to give up her seat on a bus for a
white passenger
Rosa Parks riding a Montgomery, Ala., bus
in December 1956, after the Supreme
Court outlawed segregation on buses.
Woolworth Sit-in
Freedom Riders
Images like this one of the burned bus, helped create sympathy for the
non-violent Freedom Riders and their cause. This event drew national
attention, especially from middle-class northerners who were shocked by
the brutal violence they saw on television..
Civil Rights Act of 1964
It was a landmark piece of
legislation that outlawed racial
segregation in schools, public
places, and employment
It prohibited discrimination in
public facilities, in government,
and in employment, invalidating
the Jim Crow laws in the southern
U.S.
Civil Rights Legislation
1964 Martin Luther King, Jr. was invited to the Oval Office of the White House for
President Lyndon Johnson's signing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 King stood immediately
behind the president during the ceremony.
Voting Rights Act of 1965
The law outlawed discriminatory voting practices that had been responsible for the widespread disenfranchisement of African Americans in the United States.
It specifically went after the practice of using literacy tests in the South.
These tests required minorities to prove that they could read before they were allowed to vote.
John Howard Griffin
In 1960 John Howard
underwent skin treatment to
give him dark skin.
He moved to the south to
experience life as a man
with black skin and to see if
life was separate but equal.
Black Like Me
Read the following excerpts from
Black Like me and then answer the
following questions.
What were some of the challenges
that John encountered? How would
it have been different if the color of
his skin was different?
Reflection Quickwrite
Imagine that you went through the same procedure (You
went from one race to another). How would your life be
different? How would it be the same? (5 sentences or
more)