Harlem Renaissance

African American voice in the Arts Jazz – Louis Armstrong Writers focusing on the lives and

struggles of African Americans• Langston Hughes

Change Must Happen NAACP – National Association for the

Advancement of Colored People• Thurgood Marshall - lawyer and leader

Brown v. Board of Education in Topeka, KS• Got rid of separate but equal

• Linda Brown – little girl who had to travel across town to go to school

Montgomery Bus Boycott - 1955 Rosa Parks – wouldn’t give up her seat to a white man

• Kicked off bus and arrested

Bus Boycott – refuse to use• Alternative methods of transportation

• Question: what other ways could people get around town if they didn’t have a bus?

Martin Luther King Jr. – little known preacher, leader, “non-violence”

381 days later the bus company gave in

Moving Toward Equality Integration – bringing the races together Central High School – Little Rock, AR, 1957

• National Guard Ordered to STOP integration

• Eisenhower ordered integration University of Alabama – 1963

• Gov. George Wallace stood in the doorway to stop Af. American students

Question: why do you think these students wanted to go to these schools so bad?

Protests

Sit-ins – protest by sitting down Civil Disobedience – not obeying laws you feel

are unjust Freedom Riders – patrol bus system Question: if you wanted to make real change in a

law, rule or policy, how would you protest it? March on Washington

• MLK – “I have a dream…”

• 250,000 people

Violence Erupts

Riots – protest turned Violent• Watts 1965, Detroit 1967, others

• Police Brutality – violence against citizens by law enforcement officers

Malcolm X – Nation of Islam Stokely Carmichael – “Black Power” Black Panthers – Oakland, CA

• To protect the Af. American Community

Opinion

Why do you think that some people chose non-violence in the civil rights movement and others chose violence?

Which do you think is the better choice? Why?

Sad Truth

MLK – assassinated outside hotel in Memphis, TN by James Earl Ray

Malcolm X – assassinated by one of his followers

More Progress

Civil Rights Act 1964 Voting Rights Act 1965 Civil Rights Act 1968 Activity: Summarize what these laws did

using your textbook. Affirmative Action – making special efforts

to hire and enroll members of groups who have been discriminated against.

Modern African American Relations

Are minorities accepted in modern culture, why or why not?

Are there any stereotypes presented through the print media about minorities? How so?

What message is the modern media telling America about cultures?

Rodney King Affair Have we reached MLK’s dream? Will we

ever?