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People of the Civil Rights Era. Political Segregationists. Southern Democrats They like the Status Quo and fight to keep it. Orval Faubus. Arkansas Governor Fought to prevent integration at Little Rock Central High School - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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People of the Civil Rights Era
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Southern Democrats
They like the Status Quo and fight to keep it
Political Segregationists
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Arkansas GovernorFought to prevent integration at Little Rock
Central High SchoolSent the National Guard to prevent the Little
Rock Nine from attending
Orval Faubus
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Alabama GovernorVery vocal about keeping segregationStood at the door of the University of
Alabama to prevent two black students from enrolling
George Wallace
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Georgia GovernorBefore becoming governor
made national new when he kept blacks out of his “whites only” restaurant using an axe handle
Sold his restaurant rather than follow court order to admit blacks
After all this, he is elected governor
Lester Maddox
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Those who fought for Civil Rights
Activists
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Pastor in Montgomery, AL
Promoted Civil DisobedienceSit-InsMarchesBoycotts
Wrote “Letters from a Birmingham Jail”
Gave “I Have a Dream Speech”
Assassinated in 1968
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Arrested for not giving her seat up on a bus
Led to 13 month “bus boycott” by African Americans in Montgomery, AL
Rosa Parks
Courts ruled segregation on buses was unconstitutional
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NAACP Attorney in Brown v. Board of Education
Became first
African American on the Supreme Court
Thurgood Marshall
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As the Civil Rights movement moved out of the South, it began to change…
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Militant black MuslimQuestioned Dr. King’s policy of non-violencePromoted “Black Nationalism” – seeking
complete independence from whitesAssassinated in 1965
Malcolm X
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1966 Founded in Oakland, CAProvided services for their black communityWanted an end to police brutalityWere armed and did not back downDemanded reparation be paid for years of
oppression
Black Panthers
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Blacks were not the only ones fighting for equality…
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Organized Chicano farm workers in CA
Used non-violent protests to improve the lives of farm workers
Cesar Chavez
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Leader of Chicano Movement in TX
Surgeon and WWII Veteran
Hector P. Garcia
Became first Mexican American to serve on US Commission of Civil Rights
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Women’s rights activistWrote “The Feminine Mystique”Helped form the National Association of
Women (NOW)
Betty Friedan
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Group that fought fair treatment of American Indians
Slogan: “Red Power”Introduced term “Native American”Temporarily occupied Alcatraz and Wounded
Knee
American Indian Movement (AIM)