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
