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Opening Assignment. Turn in your crossword to Mr. Croft If you faced the threat of violent retaliation by the government or other citizens would you peacefully protest for a cause?
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Opening Assignment • Turn in your crossword to Mr. Croft • If you faced the threat of violent retaliation by the government or other citizens would you peacefully protest for a cause? • Discuss with someone around you why liberty and equality, core American values, are jeopardized when one or more groups of people are denied equal rights.
Section One: Taking on Segregation: Objectives: • ESSENTIAL LEARNING GOAL: • The Civil Rights Movement began in the 1950’s with the NAACP’s courtroom efforts to end legal segregation, then became a peaceful protest movement involving the SCLC, and finally splintered into several movements during the late 1960’s including the Nation of Islam and the Black Panthers. • LEARNING TARGETS: • I can explain how legalized segregation deprived African Americans of their rights as citizens. • I can summarize civil rights legal action and the response to the Plessy and Brown cases. • I can trace Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s civil rights activities, beginning with the Montgomery Bus Boycott and ending with his assassination. • I can describe the expansion of the civil rights movement through; SNCC, SCLC
The Segregation System: • Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) • Civil Rights Act of 1875 outlawed segregation • In 1883, all-white Supreme Court declares the Act unconstitutional • 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson ruling: separate but equal is constitutional • Many states pass Jim Crow laws separating the races • Facilities for blacks always inferior to those for whites
A Developing Civil Rights Movement • WWII creates job opportunities for African Americans • The need for fighting men makes armed forces end their discriminatory policies • 1941 Pres. FDR ends government discrimination in the war industries • Returning black veterans fight for civil rights at home • 1948 Pres. Truman ends segregation of the armed forces.
Challenging Segregation in Court: The NAACP Legal Strategy First African-American Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall • The NAACP legal defense fund worked to legally challenge segregation thru court decisions • Focuses on most glaring inequalities of segregated public education • Places team of law students under Thurgood Marshall - win 29 out of 32 cases argued before Supreme Court
Brown v. Board of Education • Marshall’s greatest victory is Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954) • In the 1954 case, the Supreme Court unanimously strikes down public school segregation
Reaction to the Brown Decision Resistance to School Desegregation • Within 1 year, over 500 school districts desegregate • Some districts, state officials, pro-white groups actively resist • Court hands down a second decision in the case called Brown II, orders desegregation at “all deliberate speed” • Eisenhower refuses to enforce compliance; considers it impossible to forcefully integrate schools.
Brown vs. The board of Edu. • “To separate them (African-Americans) from others of similar age and qualifications solely because of their race generates a feeling of inferiority as to their status in the community that may affect their hearts and minds in a way unlikely ever to be undone.” • Segregation of white and colored children in public schools has a detrimental effect upon the colored children. The impact is greater when it has the sanction of law, therefore, has a tendency to retard the educational and mental development of negro children and to deprive them of some of the benefits they would receive in a [racially] integrated school system. • We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of ‘separate but equal’ has no place. Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.”- Chief Justice Earl Warren
Evaluation of the Case: • Discussion Questions: • 1. Do you agree with the opinion of the Court in this case? Do you think that it is possible to have segregated schools that can actually offer equal educational chances? • 2. What effect do you think the Brown decision had on related issues such as women’s rights, equal opportunities for other minorities, or opportunities and access for the handicapped? • 3. Imagine that you were given the task of planning the desegregation of a city school system that had always had dual schools for blacks and whites. How would you go about it? Outline the plan that you would follow.
Crisis in Little Rock • Since 1948, Arkansas integrating state university, private groups • Gov. Orval Faubus has National Guard turn away black students • Elizabeth Eckford faces abusive crowd when she tries to enter school • Eisenhower has Nat. Guard, paratroopers supervise school attendance • African-American students harassed by whites at school all year • 1957 Civil Rights Act—federal government power over schools, voting
The Montgomery Bus BoycottBoycotting Segregation • 1955 NAACP officer Rosa Parksarrested for not giving up seat on bus • Montgomery Improvement Association formed, organizes bus boycott • Elect 26-year-old Baptist pastor Martin Luther King, Jr.leader
Walking for Justice • African Americans file lawsuit, boycott buses, use carpools, and walk • Get support from black community, outside groups, sympathetic whites • 1956, Supreme Court outlaws bus segregation
Martin Luther King and the SCLCChanging the World with Soul Force • King calls his brand of nonviolent resistance “soul force” • civil disobedience, massive non-violent demonstrations • King remains nonviolent in face of violence after Brown decision
The Movement SpreadsDemonstrating for Freedom • Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee adopts nonviolence, but calls for more confrontational strategy • Influenced by Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) to use sit-ins: - refuse to leave segregated lunch counter until served • First sit-in at Greensboro, NC Woolworth’s shown nationwide on TV and creates sympathy for the movement • In spite of abuse, arrests, movement grows, spreads to North • Late 1960, lunch counters desegregated in 48 cities in 11 states
From the Grassroots Up • King, and others found Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) – Nonviolent protest organization • By 1960, African-American students think pace of change too slow • Join Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)– national protest group
Daily Review • Consider this map, why do you think segregation was allowed in so many states outside of the South? • Why do you think the map is divided in these ways? • Red= Segregation Required • Green= Segregation Prohibited • Yellow/Blue= Segregation allowed or not legislated.
HOMEWORK • Chapter 21 Section 1 • Read Pages 700 – 707 Awesome job Can-struction! Main Ideas A – H Skillbuilder #1 – 2 page 701