Evolution of Civil Rights: 1860s to 1960s

1. Civil Rights 1860s-1960s • Jim Crow Laws – 1880’s • Plessy Vs. Ferguson - 1896 • Chapter 20 – pages 622-624 • Booker T. Washington – 1880s-90s – focused on improving education and economy for blacks – Tuskegee Institute • Lynching • Ida B. Wells - Lynching • W.E.B. DuBois – founded NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) in 1909. Focused on fighting segregation and discrimination • Page 709 - Marcus Garvey – Back to Africa movement • UNIA – Universal Negro Improvement Association

2. W.E.B. Du Bois Booker T. Washington Marcus Garvey

3. Lynching

4. Ida B. Wells

5. Chapter 27 – pages 832-837 - World War II began the process of integration – Committee on Civil Rights – military desegregated in 1948 • Sweatt vs. Painter – 1950 • Brown vs. Board of Education – 1954 – Thurgood Marshall – ruled segregation in public schools was illegal • 1955 – Emmett Till • 1955 – Montgomery Bus Boycott – Rosa Parks – Dec. 1, 1955 • Martin Luther King Jr. – Civil Disobedience • 1957 – Little Rock Nine

6. Linda Brown (Left) and family http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/conlaw/brownfamily.jpg

7. Emmett Till http://www.kirkwood.k12.mo.us/parent_student/KHS/arenske/tkam_index.html

8. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/till/filmmore/index.html

9. Rosa Parks Thurgood Marshall

10. Martin Luther King Jr.

11. Little Rock Nine

13. Dwight Eisenhower http://www.cia.gov/csi/monograph/firstln/955pres18.gif

14. Chapter 28 – Pages 855-865 - February 1, 1960 – Greensboro sit-in • SNCC – Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee • May 1961 – Freedom Rides – Congress of Racial Equality – CORE • 1962 – James Meredith – University of Mississippi • Southern Christian Leadership Conference – SCLC – Martin Luther King Jr. • 1963 – “Letter from Birmingham Jail” – King’s belief in non-violence • 1963 – Children’s March – Birmingham. Alabama

15. August 28, 1963 – March on Washington – “I Have A Dream” speech • Birmingham Bombing – September 1963 • JFK assassinated on November 22, 1963 • Lyndon B. Johnson - takes over as President – Civil Rights is a major issue for his Presidency

16. Greensboro Sit-In

17. Freedom Riders http://images.encarta.msn.com/xrefmedia/sharemed/targets/images/pho/t028/T028163A.jpg http://www.voicesofcivilrights.org/photoGallery/images/AARP_photo_gallery_03.jpg

18. James Meredith

19. Children’s March http://www.outofrange.net/blogarchive/archives/mooreBirmingham.jpg http://www.gettysburg.edu/academics/english/eng235/dog.jpg

20. March on Washington http://www.exodusnews.com/Photos/MartinLutherKing.jpg http://www.africawithin.com/bios/ml_king.jpg

21. Birmingham Bombing

23. Lyndon B. Johnson

24. Civil Rights Act of 1964 – banned segregation in all public places • Freedom Summer – 1964 – murders of three civil rights workers, March on Selma, Ala. • Voting Rights Act of 1965 – made voting discrimination illegal – poll taxes/literacy tests • Malcolm X – Nation of Islam – favored black separatism • Elijah Muhammad, Louis Farrakhan • February 21, 1965 – Malcolm X assassinated • Black Power Movement – rejected integration • August 1965 – Watts riot • April 4, 1968 – Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated • Chicano Movement – Cesar Chavez

25. Freedom Summer

26. March on Selma

28. http://www.africanamericans.com/images2/SelmaMarchMartinCoretta.jpghttp://www.africanamericans.com/images2/SelmaMarchMartinCoretta.jpg http://home.earthlink.net/~sistersofselma/selma3i.jpg

29. Elijah Muhammad Louis Farrakhan Malcolm X Cesar Chavez

30. Black Power Movement

31. Watts Riot - 1965

33. Only meeting between Malcolm X and Martin Luther King March 26, 1964

34. Malcolm X’s assassination

35. Martin Luther King’s Assassination