The Civil Rights Movement

Integration/Desegregation

1. _____________Truman integrates US military

Executive Order 9981

2. _______________ - 1st African American pro baseball player

Jackie Robinson

3. _____________________________ = claimed separate facilities were inherently unequal

a. _____________________________i. Governor calls National Guard to block black

students’ entry

ii. ______________: President sends troops to escort 9 black students

Brown v Board of Education

Central High School in Little Rock, AR

Little Rock 9

Central High School, Little Rock

Protesters at CHS, Little Rock

Protesters at CHS, Little Rock

4. __________________: bans segregation in US schools and public places

a. Pushed through Congress by President Johnson “__________________________”

“No eulogy could more eloquently honor President Kennedy’s memory, [than

the] earliest passage of the civil rights bill for which he

fought so long.”

Civil Rights Act of 1964

To honor the memory of Kennedy

5. ________________: outlaws literacy tests needed to register to vote

a. Ban Jim Crow lawsb. _______________:

over 1,000 college students help register blacks in Mississippi

Voting Rights Act of 1965

Freedom Summer

Civil Rights Groups

Civil Rights Groups

1. _______________________________________ (SCLC): non-violent protest group that advocated civil rights

a. ________________ = leader

b. March on Birmingham

i. Police attack crowd with fire hoses and dogs

Southern Christian Leadership Conference

Martin Luther King

Fire hoses strong enough to blow the bark off trees = turned on people

Civil Rights Groups

ii. ___________________________:letter that supports civil disobedience tacticsLetter from a Birmingham Jail

While confined here in the Birmingham city jail, I came across your recent statement calling my present activities "unwise and untimely." Seldom do I pause to answer criticism of my work and ideas. If I sought to answer all the criticisms that cross my desk, my secretaries would have little time for anything other than such correspondence in the course of the day, and I would have no time for constructive work. But since I feel that you are men of genuine good will and that your criticisms are sincerely set forth, I want to try to answer your statements in what I hope will be patient and reasonable terms.

c. March on Washington: 200,000 people protest for “jobs, justics, and peace”

i.___________________________: future where races co-exist in harmony

I have a Dream Speech

2. SNCCa. ___________________________

i. Supreme Ct bans bus segregation

ii. ___________… decide to “test” riots

b. MLK’s assassination makes people question the non-violent methods

c. ____________________________i. Advocate violence to resist oppression

ii. _____________ movement seeking unity and self reliance of black community

Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

Student National Coordinating Committee

Freedom Rides

Black power

Civil Rights Movement Review

“Blackbird” – The Beatles

http://www.vh1classic.com/view/artist/1022/38123/U2/Pride_In_the_Name_of_Love/index.jhtml