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Civil Rights History 1940’s-1970’s

Civil Rights History 1940’s-1970’s. Detroit Race Riot in June, 1943; 25 blacks dead; 9 whites; A. Philip Randolph , president of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters

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Civil Rights History 1940’s-1970’s

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  1. Civil Rights History1940’s-1970’s • Detroit Race Riot in June, 1943; 25 blacks dead; 9 whites; • A. Philip Randolph, president of the Brotherhood of Sleeping • Car Porters •  Randolph made three demands of the president                 i. Equal access to defense jobs                 ii. Desegregation of the armed forces                iii. End to segregation in federal agencies • March on Washington Movement • FDR issued Executive Order 8802 in 1941 establishing Fair • EmploymentPractices Committee (FEPC)

  2. Truman Presidency • Truman’s First term • To Secure these rights • Armed Forces • Jackie Robinson

  3. 1950’s and Eisenhower • Rock n Roll • NAACP • Earl Warren • Brown v. Board of Education, 1954 • Thurgood Marshall • Massive Resistance • Montgomery Bus Boycott 1955-1956 • Rev. Martine Luther King Jr.

  4. 1950’s and Eisenhower • Crisis in Little Rock, Arkansas- 1957 • Little rock 9 • 101st airborne • Southern Christian Leadership Conference • Nonviolent resistance • Sit-ins

  5. Eisenhower and the 1960’s • Greensboro Sit in 1960 • Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) • JFK and Civil Rights • Militants • CORE • James Meredith • Birmingham Alabama, MLK • June 1963 – Governor George Wallace • March of Washington – 1963

  6. Great Society War on Poverty Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 Head Start Housing of Urban Development (HUD) 24th Amendment Civil Rights Bill of 1964 Title VII Johnson and Civil Rights

  7. Johnson and Civil Rights • Voting Rights Act of 1965 • Affirmative Action • Philadelphia Plan • Bakke Case-1978 • Jesse Jackson • Thurgood Marshall • Forced Busing

  8. Johnson and Civil Rights • Black Power and racial Violence • Black Separatism • Marcus Garvey • Malcolm X • SNCC and Stokely Michaels • Black Panthers • Huey Newton and Bobby Seale

  9. Johnson and Civil Rights • Long Hot Summers • Kerner Commission • Civil Rights Movement: Memory Aid • B rave Brown v. Board of Education, 1954 • M artin Montgomery Bus Boycott, 1955 • L eads Little Rock Crisis, 1957 • G reen Greensboro sit-in, 1960 • F reedom Freedom Riders, 1961 • J unkies James Meredith, 1962 • U ntil University of Alabama, 1962 • B irmingham Birmingham March, 1963 • M archers March on Washington, 1963 • C laim Civil Rights Act of 1964 • V ictory Voting Rights Act of 1965 • A gainst Affirmative Action • B igoted Black Power (Malcolm X, Carmichael, Black Panthers) • F reaks Forced busing, 1971

  10. Civil Rights and the 1960’s • Warren Court • Rights of Accused • Legacy • Election of 1968

  11. Nixon and Civil Rights • Civil Rights Nixon • Philadelphia Plan • Carter • Reagan

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