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Civil Rights Results

Civil Rights Results. How the government responded to the Civil Rights Protests. Civil Rights Results. During 1960s protests dominated the news and the government must respond The first victory for African Americans comes in 1954

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Civil Rights Results

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  1. Civil Rights Results How the government responded to the Civil Rights Protests

  2. Civil Rights Results • During 1960s protests dominated the news and the government must respond • The first victory for African Americans comes in 1954 • Brown v. Board: Historic case that said segregation was illegal and unconstitutional

  3. Civil Rights Results • African Americans form a group to fight on their behalf that still exists today • NAACP: group that fought for equality and an end to legalized discrimination • National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

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  5. Civil Rights Results • President Kennedy wanted to stop the protests and grant African Americans equality during his presidency • Kennedy in 1963 works with Congress on a Civil Rights Bill • November 1963 President Kennedy is assassinated leaving Lyndon B. Johnson as President

  6. Civil Rights Results • President Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964 • Protection of voting to everyone • Open public facilities to all (No more segregation) • Equal job opportunities • No racial discrimination in public

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  8. Civil Rights Results • It was seen as a milestone for African Americans, but some southern states resisted this law so another law was passed the following year • Voting Rights Act of 1965: Law that ended literacy tests and poll taxes on African Americans at all voting locations

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  10. Civil Rights Results The civil rights victory was short lived however: Shortly after the signing of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, Malcolm X was shot and killed at a rally in New York City

  11. Civil Rights Results • Three years later another tragedy would strike America • In 1968 in Tennessee, Martin Luther King was shot and killed on a balcony by James Earl Ray

  12. Civil Rights Results • The loss of these two men brought an end to the Civil Rights Movement for African Americans • Together they accomplished more than anyone previously had • Their fight would be picked up by other minority groups in the near future

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