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DO NOW. Take out your homework. List three similarities between Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois . LEARNING GOALS. EQ Why was the Civil Rights Movement needed? LT Examine events of the early CRM and opposition that developed against it POU

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  1. DO NOW Take out your homework. List three similarities between Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois.

  2. LEARNING GOALS • EQ • Why was the Civil Rights Movement needed? • LT • Examine events of the early CRM and opposition that developed against it • POU • I can explain the importance of early CRM events and identify attempts at opposing them.

  3. Civil Rights Movement: Early Days May 13, 2014

  4. Integration in the 1940s • Integration • The act of ending segregation • Major League Baseball • In 1947, the Brooklyn Dodgers signed Jackie Robinson as the first black Major Leaguer • U.S. Military • In 1948, Harry Truman ordered the integration of the U.S. military • This was the first major integration ordered by the federal government!

  5. Political Opposition • White Southern Democrats typically opposed Civil Rights due to the issue of segregation and integration • In 1948, the States’ Rights Democratic Party or “Dixiecrats,”nominated a candidate for President • They believed in segregation The Dixiecrats nominated Sen. Strom Thurmond for President in 1948.

  6. Violent Opposition • In addition to changes in politics, violence and intimidation were also used to fight against the Civil Rights Movement • Examples: • Little Rock Crisis in 1957 • Riots at Ole Miss in 1962 • Assassination of MLK in 1968

  7. Brown v. Board of Education • 1954 • Ruled that “separate-but-equal is inherentlyunequal” • Said schools shouldintegrate immediately • North Carolina would not integrate until 1970!

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