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The Civil Rights Movement

The Civil Rights Movement. It didn ’ t just happen because someone refused to give up her seat…. Constitutional Convention. Debated whether or not to ban further importation of slavery. Abolition Movement/Civil War. Emancipation Proclamation -ended slavery in South 13th amendment-

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The Civil Rights Movement

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  1. The Civil Rights Movement It didn’t just happen because someone refused to give up her seat…

  2. Constitutional Convention • Debated whether or not to ban further importation of slavery.

  3. Abolition Movement/Civil War • Emancipation Proclamation -ended slavery in South • 13th amendment- ended slavery • 14th amendment- granted citizenship to slaves • 15th amendment- right to vote cannot be denied because of race, color, or previous servitude

  4. Plessy v. Ferguson • 1896 • Legalized the segregation of African Americans and Whites

  5. NAACP • 1909 founded • W.E.B. DuBois • 1930s – anti-lynching • 1940s Legal Defense Fund -improve legal rights -Thurgood Marshall

  6. 1940s • Tuskegee Airmen • Executive Order 9981 -desegregation of military • CORE founded -Congress of Racial Equality -nonviolent protests

  7. Jackie Robinson • 1947 • First African American in Major League Baseball • Brooklyn Dodgers

  8. Emmett Till • 1955 • 14 yr old boy from Chicago • visiting his uncle in Mississippi

  9. Money, MS

  10. Murder of Emmett Till • Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam go to Mo Wright’s home to get Emmett Till • Kidnap, beat, shoot and kill Till • Tie him to Cotton Gin Fan and throw him in the river

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  13. The Trial • All White Jury • Two witnesses testified against the defendants • 67 minutes - not guilty • Two more trials and acquittals

  14. The Media • Jet Magazine - funeral • Look Magazine -paid $4,000 -killers admitted to killing Till -community turned their backs on the free killers • Eyes on the Prize

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