The Civil Rights Movement

Part I: 1954-1964

Problems

• lynching, violence• Jim Crow laws (segregation)

-Plessy vs. Fergusson, 1896• voting rights/poll tax• poverty• racism/KKK

Major Turning Points– Desegregation of armed forces, 1948– Brown vs. Board of Education, 1954

• NAACP• Thurgood Marshall

– Emmett Till, 1955

Montgomery Bus Boycott, 1956• NAACP (National

Association for the Advancement of Colored People)- 1909

• Rosa Parks, 1955• Dr. Martin Luther King,

Jr.

Central High School, 1957• Little Rock, Arkansas• Governor (Orval

Faubus) used National Guard to keep students out

• President Eisenhower called in army

SNCC

• Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee

• Sit-ins

Freedom Rides, 1961

• Lead by CORE• Wanted to provoke violent reaction• Banned segregation in interstate travel

facilities

Birmingham, 1963• Children’s March

John F. Kennedy, 1963civil rights is a “moral issue”

Medgar Evers, 1963• NAACP field worker

• Head of activities in Jackson, Mississippi

• Murdered in front of his house

March on Washington, 1963

“I Have a Dream”

Kennedy Assassination, 1963

Lyndon B. Johnson

16th St. Baptist Church

•Birmingham, Alabama•Sunday, September 15, 1963•4 girls killed•Contributed to the support for the Civil Rights Act of 1964