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The Civil Rights Movement
Types of Segregation
• de facto segregation: established by practice and custom, not by law – seen mostly in northern cities
• de jure segregation: racial segregation established by law – Jim Crow laws in the South
Plessy v. Ferguson
• 1896, Supreme Court case that established the “separate but equal” doctrine
Thurgood Marshall
• Civil Rights lawyer
• Later became the first African-American Supreme Court Justice
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas
• 1954, Supreme Court case which ruled that “separate, but equal” education for black and white students was unconstitutional
Little Rock Nine
• Nine black students went to Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas as a part of integration
• Students were met with angry students and parents protesting their arrival
Rosa Parks• 1955, she refused
to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama and was arrested
• This started the Montgomery Bus Boycott
Martin Luther King, Jr. • Minister who
emerged as the leader of the Civil Rights Movement
• Encouraged followers to use non-violent protests and acts of civil disobedience
Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
• Formed in 1957 by MLK and other leaders to work for civil rights through non-violent means
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC):
• Coordinated sit-ins and other protests to give young blacks a larger role in the Civil Rights Movement
• Started by Stokely Carmichael
The Greensboro Four
• Four college students in North Carolina refused to move from a lunch counter in protest over segregation
• Influenced other college students to protest
The Greensboro Four
Sit-ins
Civil Rights Movement Part II
Civil Rights Act of 1964
• Passed by President Johnson
• Banned discrimination on basis of race, sex, national origin, or religion in public places and most workplaces
Freedom Riders• Civil Rights activists who rode buses
through the South to challenge segregation in 1964
• Made up of mostly college students
• Became known as “Freedom Summer”
Voting Rights Act of 1965
• Passed by President Johnson
• Made registering to vote easier for African-Americans
• Eliminated discriminatory literacy tests
• Authorized Federal examiners to enroll voters who were denied at the local level
James Meredith
• Tried to enroll at the University of Mississippi
• Kennedy sent in federal troops to ensure his enrollment
Selma Campaign
• 1965, Civil Rights activists marched 50 miles from Selma, Alabama to Montgomery, Alabama
• Alabama police violently halted the first march
• Second march proved to be successful
Malcolm X• Sought to end
segregation by urging African Americans to become less dependent of whites
• Resisted MLK’s notion of Civil Disobedience
Nation of Islam
• AKA, the Black Muslims
• Founded by Elijah Muhammad
• Sought to promote black separation along with the Muslim faith
Stokely Carmichael
• Promoted “Black Power”
• Encouraged African-Americans to take pride in “being black” and take an active role in political and social leadership
Black Panthers
• Militant African-American political organization
• Formed by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale
• Sought to fight police brutality and the use of violence in order to protect African-Americans
Huey Newton Bobby Seale
The Kerner Commission
• Warned that America was moving towards two separate societies
• Said whites were to blame for ignoring needs of African Americans
• Changes were needed to avoid a system of apartheid
April 4, 1968
• Martin Luther King, Jr. is assassinated outside a Memphis Hotel by James Earl Ray