Wednesday April 15th, 2015

Grab the worksheet as you

enter!
Happy Tax Day!
M-STEP Schedule Revision
Agenda

QUIZ Chapter 21 Section 1

Go over Section 1

One term is used more than once

Not all terms are used
Add to your notes

Worksheet at least the last 15

minutes of class

Stop me so you have time

ESSENTIAL QUESTION: What overall impact did the civil rights movement
have on America?

Tuesday April 14th, 2015

GRAB THE NOTES
PACKET AS YOU ENTER
AGENDA

I HAVE A DREAM
BREAK DOWN
CHAPTER 21 SECTION 1
- DIY NOTES
REVIEW NOTES

Last April 14th

REVIEW

HOW HAD RACE RELATIONS CHANGED IN THE FIRST HALF

OF THE 1900S?
USE THE IMAGES BELOW TO JUSTIFY THE RULING IN
BROWN V. BOARD.
TELL ME A TOPIC/GOAL/PURPOSE OF MLKS I HAVE A
DREAM SPEECH.
ESSENTIAL QUESTION: WHAT OVERALL IMPACT DID
THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT HAVE ON AMERICA?

Chapter 21 Civil Rights

Break it Down

Main Idea: Activism, new legislation, and the

Supreme Court advance equal rights for
African Americans. But disagreements among
civil rights groups lead to a violent period for
the civil rights movement.

ESSENTIAL QUESTION: What overall impact did

the civil rights movement have on America?

Chapter 22 Section 1
Taking on Segregation

Break it down

Main Idea: Activism and a series of Supreme

Court decisions advance equal rights for
African Americans in the 1950s and 1960s.
Why it matters now: Landmark Supreme
Court decisions beginning in 1954 have
guaranteed civil rights for Americans today

Do it yourself notes

If you have any questions, please ask me.

Make sure you are reading the textbook
Do not write down everything!

Remember to focus on answering the questions of the

headings

It will take you way too long and aint nobody got time for
that

remember, exact dates are not that important, years may

be
Short hand is always good Martin Luther King Jr. MLK
These are your notes, if you feel like you already know it,
do not write it.

Expect an assessment tomorrow.

The Segregation System

Plessy

v. Ferguson

Civil Rights Act of 1875 act outlawed segregation

In 1883, all-white Supreme Court declares Act unconstitutional
1896 Plessy v. Ferguson ruling: separate but equal constitutional
Many states pass Jim Crow laws separating the races
Facilities for blacks always inferior to those for whites

Segregation

After Civil War, African Americans go north to escape racism

North: housing in all-black areas, whites resent job competition

Continues into the 20th Century

Developing Civil Rights Movement

WW II creates job opportunities for African Americans

Need for fighting men makes armed forces end discriminatory
policies
FDR ends government, war industries discrimination
Returning black veterans fight for civil rights at home

Challenging Segregation
in Court
The

NAACP Legal Strategy

Professor Charles Hamilton Houston leads NAACP

legal campaign
Focuses on most glaring inequalities of segregated
public education
Places team of law students under Thurgood
Marshall
win

29 out of 32 cases argued before

Supreme Court

Brown

v. Board of Education

Marshalls greatest victory is Brown v. Board of

Education of Topeka
In 1954 case, Court unanimously strikes down
school segregation

Reaction to the
Brown Decision
Resistance

Within 1 year, over 500 school districts desegregate

Some districts, state officials, pro-white groups actively resist
Court hands Brown II, orders desegregation at all deliberate
speed
Eisenhower refuses to enforce compliance; considers it impossible

Crisis

to School Desegregation

in Little Rock

Since 1948, Arkansas integrating state university, private groups

Gov. Orval Faubus has National Guard turn away black students
Elizabeth Eckford faces abusive crowd when she tries to enter
school
Eisenhower has Nat. Guard, paratroopers supervise school
attendance
African-American students harassed by whites at school all year
1957 Civil Rights Actfederal government power over schools,
voting

The Montgomery Bus Boycott

Boycotting Segregation

1955 NAACP officer Rosa Parks arrested for not giving up seat
on bus
Montgomery Improvement Association formed, organizes bus
boycott
Montgomery Boycott is first organized movement by African
Americans to fight segregation
Elect 26-year-old Baptist pastor Martin Luther King, Jr.
leader

Walking for Justice

African Americans file lawsuit, boycott buses, use carpools,

walk
Get support from black community, outside groups,
sympathetic whites

1956, Supreme Court outlaws bus segregation

Martin Luther King and

the SCLC

Changing the World with Soul Force

King calls his brand of nonviolent resistance soul

force

civil disobedience, massive demonstrations

King remains nonviolent in face of violence after

Brown decision

The Movement Spreads

Demonstrating for Freedom

SNCC adopts nonviolence, but calls for

more confrontational strategy
Influenced by Congress of Racial Equality
(CORE) to use sit-ins:

refuse to leave segregated lunch counter

until served

First sit-in at Greensboro, NC Woolworths

shown nationwide on TV
In spite of abuse, arrests, movement
grows, spreads to North

Late 1960, lunch counters

desegregated in 48 cities in 11 states

Essential Question

ESSENTIAL QUESTION: WHAT

CHALLENGES DID INDIVIDUALS FACE WHEN
FIGHTING DISCRIMINATION DURING THE
CIVIL RIGHTS ERA?

Worksheet

You will be getting a chart with many different individuals and

groups who fought in the Civil Rights movement.
For each you have to give me some awesome info that will
help you better understand the civil rights movement and our
EQ
For each person tell me

For each group tell me

Their Philosophy
Their Actions
Their writings/speeches (important ones)
Their Philosophy
Their Actions
Their leaders

We will work on this for the rest of the hour; it will be due
entirely on Thursday

Revie
w

PHILOSOPHY?

1 - Martin
Luther
King Jr.
7 - NAACP
8 - CORE
(CONGRES
S OF
RACIAL
EQUALITY)
9 SCLC
10 - SNCC
(STUDENT
NONVIOLE
NT
COORDINA
TING
COMMITTE
E)
ESSENTIAL

ACTIONS?

WRITIN
GS/LEA
DERS?

QUESTION: What overall impact did

the civil rights movement have on America?

Packets

Question sheet

We will be working on the Freedom Summer side

today
The MLK Jr. I Have a Dream side we will work on
later

Packet

We will be going over each portion of this together

as a class

Freedom Summer

In the south (especially

Mississippi) African Americans
were still not given basic rights

In the summer of 1964, Blacks

and whites from the North
traveled to MS to bring equality to
blacks in MS.

Voting
Schooling
Equality

Registered people to vote

Taught students
Broke social norms

Faced HARSH resistance and

conditions