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Civil Rights Background

Explore the evolution of civil rights, from the Dred Scott Decision to the Emancipation Proclamation and the Plessy v. Ferguson ruling to the Montgomery Bus Boycott and the legacy of MLK Jr.

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Civil Rights Background

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  1. Civil Rights Background • Before and During the Civil War • 3/5 Compromise • Dred Scott Decision • Emancipation Proclamation (goes into effect 1863) • After the Civil War (pg 180-81) • 13th Amendment • 14th Amendment • 15th Amendment

  2. Civil Rights Unit Pre Questions • What are some advantages whites had over African Americans throughout the 1900s? • How would voting restrictions on African Americans hurt the Civil Rights Movement? • What are some different forms of protest African Americans could use to push for equality ? • Why do you think many African Americans (especially in the south) didn’t take part in the Civil Rights protests?

  3. Is this man black or white • By Louisiana Law he was considered “black”. • This is Homer Plessy he was 1/8 black.

  4. Plessy V. Ferguson • The story of Homer Plessy • Court’s ruling • “Separate but equal”

  5. In 1896 the courts ruled in Plessy v. Ferguson that segregation was legal as long as it was “separate-but-equal”. This ruling stated that there could be separate schools, restrooms, railroad card, etc., as long as they were equal (the same). Plessy was bringing a case against the state of LA. for forcing him to sit in a black railroad car. He was only 1/8 black. Segregation in America

  6. The result of Plessy v. Ferguson.

  7. Its corny but we’ll watch it anyway

  8. Brown v. Board of Education • The story of Linda Brown • Thurgood Marshall - NAACP • Decision • “with all deliberate speed”

  9. Brown V. Board of Education • African American student Linda Brown had to make a dangerous trip across town to attend an all African American elementary school even though there was an all white school right by her house. • Her family and NAACP lawyer Thurgood Marshall brought a case against the school which went to the Supreme Court. • 1954: The court said that racial segregation in public schools was illegal. Schools were now forced to desegregate “with all deliberate speed”

  10. Thurgood Marshall is in the middle.

  11. Emmett Till

  12. Body Exhumed in 2005 • The original casket will be put on display at the Smithsonian Museum of African American History

  13. Problems with integration • Nine African American students were supposes to enter a Little Rock Arkansas high school. The state governor called out the national guard and prevented them from entering for almost 3 weeks. • President Eisenhower called 1,000 federal troops to the school and finally on Sept 25 1957 the Little Rock Nine were allowed to enter.

  14. Montgomery Bus Boycott • Problems with the bus system • Rosa Parks • The Boycott • Leader • Success or Failure

  15. Montgomery Alabama Bus Boycott • Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat in the front of the bus. • In protest over her arrest, African Americans organized a bus boycott and walked miles to work. Martin Luther King was the leader of the boycott and emerged as the leader of the civil rights movement when the boycott succeeded.

  16. The bus Rosa was arrested on is now on display at the Henry Ford museum.

  17. Front seats on Detroit busses were reserved with black ribbons until her funeral. Her coffin was taken to Montgomery and taken by horse drawn carriage to a church where she was viewed. Her body was later flown to D.C. where she became the first woman to lie in state in the Capitol Rotunda. Rosa Parks died October 24th 2005 in Detroit Michigan.

  18. Short clip from the “Rosa Parks Story” movie

  19. Martin Luther King Jr. • Born 1929 in Atlanta Georgia • Married Coretta Scott in 1953 (4 kids) • Became a Southern Baptist Minister and moved to Montgomery Alabama. (he is a Dr. of philosophy) • Took a leadership role in the Montgomery Bus Boycott for which he was threatened, arrested and had his house bombed. • He then formed the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). • Mahatma Gandhi was King’s inspiration for “civil disobedience” to peacefully protest racial injustice. • He is assassinated in 1968 by James Earl Ray

  20. Civil Rights Act of 1957…how bad did some people want to stop it? • South Carolina Senator Strom Thurmand’s filibuster lasted 24 hours and 18 minutes; he began with readings of every state's election laws in alphabetical order. Thurmond later read from the Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights, and George Washington's Farewell Address. His speech set the record for a Senate filibuster. • He was still a senator at his death in 2003 at the age of 101

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