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Into the 20 th Century Jim Crow laws Segregation and Discrimination Violence

Into the 20 th Century Jim Crow laws Segregation and Discrimination Violence. Describe what happened in the story “A Party Down At The Square” and include your reaction to specific details of the story.

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Into the 20 th Century Jim Crow laws Segregation and Discrimination Violence

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  1. Into the 20th Century • Jim Crow laws • Segregation and Discrimination • Violence

  2. Describe what happened in the story “A Party Down At The Square” and include your reaction to specific details of the story. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/13/AR2005061301720.html?referrer=emailarticle

  3. Ida B. Wells

  4. Map – Text, Ch. 21, sec. 1

  5. MODERN CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT

  6. 1954 Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas · Segregation in public schools unconstitutional · Paves way to large-scale desegregation

  7. 1955 ·Emmitt Till murder

  8. 1955 – Montgomery Bus Boycott · Rosa Parks in Montgomery, Ala. · Refuses to give up seat on bus to white person · Arrested, leads to African American community boycotting buses · Buses desegregated Dec. 21 1956 · Martin Luther King Jr. elected president of the Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA)

  9. Rosa Parks 1913-2005

  10. 1957 Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) · Established by MLK, Charles K. Steele, & Fred L. Shuttlesworth · MLK 1st president

  11. 1957 Little Rock Nine · Central H.S. integrated, 9 African American students · Governor Orval Faubus attempts to block/ prevent · Pres Eisenhower sends federal troops & Nat. Guard to intervene & force integration

  12. 1960 Sit-ins · 4 African American students from North Carolina A&T College · Feb 1 stage sit-in at Woolworth’s lunch counter (Greensboro, N.C.) when refused service · Leads to similar nonviolent protests throughout South

  13. 1960 The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) founded · Shaw University (Raleigh, N.C.) · Provides young African Americans a more organized place in movement · Becomes very radical under Stokley Carmicheal’s leadership (1966-67

  14. 1961 Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) · Sends volunteers known as “freedom riders” on bus trips to test desegregation laws

  15. 1963 Birmingham Campaign Bull Connor

  16. 1963 March on Washington (Aug. 28) · 250,000 marchto Lincoln Memorial · MLK “I Have a Dream” speech Church Bombing in Birmingham (Sept. 15) · Sixteenth Street Baptist Church · 4 African American girls killed · Riots erupt

  17. 1963 • Events in Birmingham lead to JFK’s call for a national Civil Rights law. To show support for the new legislation, the March on Washington is organized and MLK delivers his “I Have a Dream” speech. • But . . . November 22, 1963

  18. 1963 Medgar Evers Killed (June 12) in Jackson, Miss. · Mississippi’s NAACP field secretary · Murdered by Byron De La Beckwith · Tried twice in 1964, hung juries both times, finally convicted 30 years later

  19. 1964 Power and the Vote · Council of Federated Organizations (COFO) - Network of civil rights groups · Attempt to register black voters “Freedom Summer” · Sends delegates to Democratic National Convention to protest all-white Mississippi contingent.

  20. 1964 Civil Rights Act of 1964 signed into law by Lyndon Johnson · Segregation in public facilities and discrimination in employment illegal(14th Amendment!)

  21. 1964 Mississippi Burning · 3 Mississippi civil-rights workers killed after being arrested for speeding · President Johnson sends in military to find missing bodies · Police had released them to KKK who murdered them

  22. 1965 Malcolm X · Founder of the Organization of Afro- American Unity · Killed (Feb. 21) in Harlem, by members of the Black Muslim faith

  23. 1965 March to Montgomery · March starting in Selma, Alabama to support voting rights · Stopped at Pettus Bridge by police blockade “Bloody Sunday”

  24. 1965 Voting Rights Act of 1965 signed into law by LBJ · Literacy tests and similar restrictive requirements illegal (15th Amendment!)

  25. 1968 MLK Assassinated · April 4 Memphis. Tenn.- balcony of his hotel · 39 yrs. Old · James Earl Ray Civil Rights Act of 1968

  26. One man come in the name of love One man come and go One come he to justify One man to overthrow In the name of love What more in the name of love In the name of love What more in the name of love One man caught on a barbed wire fence One man he resist One man washed on an empty beach. One man betrayed with a kiss In the name of love What more in the name of love In the name of love What more in the name of love (nobody like you...)

  27. Early morning, April 4 Shot rings out in the Memphis sky Free at last, they took your life They could not take your pride In the name of love What more in the name of love In the name of love What more in the name of love In the name of love What more in the name of love...

  28. “Pride (In the Name of Love)” U2

  29. 2009 ADA Are you free?

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