civil rights part 1
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The Civil Rights Movement
Part I: 1954-1964
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Problems
• lynching, violence• Jim Crow laws (segregation)
-Plessy vs. Fergusson, 1896• voting rights/poll tax• poverty• racism/KKK
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Major Turning Points– Desegregation of armed forces, 1948– Brown vs. Board of Education, 1954
• NAACP• Thurgood Marshall
– Emmett Till, 1955
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Montgomery Bus Boycott, 1956• NAACP (National
Association for the Advancement of Colored People)- 1909
• Rosa Parks, 1955• Dr. Martin Luther King,
Jr.
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Central High School, 1957• Little Rock, Arkansas• Governor (Orval
Faubus) used National Guard to keep students out
• President Eisenhower called in army
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SNCC
• Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee
• Sit-ins
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Freedom Rides, 1961
• Lead by CORE• Wanted to provoke violent reaction• Banned segregation in interstate travel
facilities
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Birmingham, 1963• Children’s March
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John F. Kennedy, 1963civil rights is a “moral issue”
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Medgar Evers, 1963• NAACP field worker
• Head of activities in Jackson, Mississippi
• Murdered in front of his house
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March on Washington, 1963
“I Have a Dream”
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Kennedy Assassination, 1963
Lyndon B. Johnson
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16th St. Baptist Church
•Birmingham, Alabama•Sunday, September 15, 1963•4 girls killed•Contributed to the support for the Civil Rights Act of 1964