The American Civil Rights Movement

MacCarthy

Questions•Q1 What are the differences and similarities between Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X?• Create a Top Hat Chart to show similarities and differences between King and X

•Q2 Who are the key people, groups, events, and legal actions that impacted the civil rights movement?• Create a thinking map to categorize people/groups, events, and legal actions

Beginning• Brown v. Board of Education• Separate but Equal

unconstitutional

• Montgomery Bus Boycott• African Americans united• Martin Luther King Jr.• SCLC created

Beginning• Central High School in Arkansas• Little Rock Nine• Eisenhower takes action

• Segregated Lunch Counters in the South• Nonviolent protests• SNCC created

Power of the Media• Kennedy supports MLK and

becomes president• Support Civil Rights issues• Afraid of upsetting Southern

Democrats

• CORE pressures the issue• Freedom Rides• Kennedy sends help

Power of the Media• SCLC wants to press the issue

• Bull Connor

• King arrested

• Letter from a Birmingham Jail

• Children

Power of the Media• March on Washington

• Kennedy promises to support

• Kennedy assassinated• http://

www.history.com/topics/us-presidents/john-f-kennedy/videos/world-mourns-john-f-kennedy

• Johnson uses the memory of Kennedy to push for civil rights

Power of Media• Freedom summer in Mississippi• College students• Two murdered

• Selma• State troopers

• Voting Rights Act passed

Divides• King and SCLC address poverty

and equality

• Race Riots in Chicago

• King assassinated• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6

mxL2cqxrA

• Riots across the US

Divisions• SNCC• Black Power

• Nation of Islam• Separation of races• Malcolm X• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhg6LxyTnY8