February is Black History Month

1. February isBlack History Month What would you do without some of these inventions?

2. Do you know who these important civil rights leaders are? W.E.B. DuBois Malcolm X assassinated Rosa Parks Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated

3. 1800’s 1900’s Head new page in SS journal “Civil Rights Movement” then divide in half to create two columns

4. Read text pg. 140-Three New Amendments • Go to next slide for notes

5. “Remember” 1800’s • Abraham Lincoln signed Emancipation Proclamation freeing slaves during Civil War. • Civil Rights Amendments added to Constitution. • 13th - abolished slavery • 14th - Everyone born in U.S. has rights as citizens • 15th -All men right to vote no matter color

6. Read text pgs. 148-149 • Add notes on next slide

7. “Remember” 1800’s • Abraham Lincoln signed Emancipation Proclamation freeing slaves during Civil War. • Civil Rights Amendments added to Constitution. • 13th - abolished slavery • 14th - Everyone born in U.S. has rights as citizens • 15th -All men right to vote no matter color • Jim Crow Laws-African Americans segregated.

8. Segregation=Separate

9. Example of Segregation

10. Separate but Equal? In the 1896 case of Plessy v Ferguson, the Supreme Court concluded that a Louisiana law requiring whites and blacks to ride in separate railroad cars did not violate the Equal Protection Clause. 

11. Example of Segregation

12. Example of Segregation • Example from a Greyhound in Rome, Georgia in 1943.

13. Harlem RenaissanceAfter WWI Play for Ella Fitzgerald • The Harlem Renaissance was an African American cultural movement of the 1920s and early 1930s centered around the Harlem neighborhood of New York City. African American literature and arts surged. Jazz and blues music became very popular. • brainpop [Grocery store, Harlem, 1940] Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C.;LC-USZC4-4737

14. African Americans in WWII Tankers of the 761st Medium Tank Battalion European Theater of Operations, August, 1944 Photo: Department of Defense (USMC) Members of the 3rd Marine Ammunition Company on Saipan in 1944

15. African Americans in WWII • Over 2.5 million African-American men registered for the draft, and black women also volunteered in large numbers. While serving in the Army, Army Air Forces, Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard, they experienced discrimination and segregation but met the challenge and persevered. They served their country with distinction, made valuable contributions to the war effort, and earned high praises and commendations for their struggles and sacrifices. • Over 2.5 million African-American men registered for the draft, and black women also volunteered in large numbers. While serving in the Army, Army Air Forces, Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard, they experienced discrimination and segregation but met the challenge and persevered. They served their country with distinction, made valuable contributions to the war effort, and earned high praises and commendations for their struggles and sacrifices.

16. Executive Order No. 9981 issued by President Truman provided for "equality of treatment and opportunity in the armed forces without regard to race, color, religion, or national origin." This was the first time that a president used an executive order to implement civil rights principles and was a major victory for civil rights advocates in the quest for full citizenship. Victory against Segregation after WWII.

17. Realities of Segregation- • video clip 1:37 from Martin Luther King Jr.’s Perspective

18. Conflict?? Resolutions??

19. Civil Rights Lesson 2 Civil Rights Movement Begins Watch Brain Pop Video on Civil Rights http://www.brainpop.com/socialstudies/ushistory/civilrights/

20. Read text pgs. 340-345 or • Read wkbk pg. 131 • Discuss ques.

22. Key Issues in the Supreme Court’s ruling on Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas • Thurgood Marshall began to focus on desegregating the nation’s elementary and high schools in the 1950s. • He found a case in Linda Brown of Topeka, Kansas. • The Supreme Court combined several school segregation cases from around the country into a single case: Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas. • The Supreme Court was aware of this case’s great significance. Thurgood Marshall was the lawyer who fought for desegregating schools For Linda Brown in Brown vs. Board of Education. He also became the First African American Supreme Court Justice.

23. A victory in fight for Civil Rights.

24. School Desegregation • In May 1954, the Court issued its landmark ruling in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka stating racially segregated education was unconstitutional. • Brainpop Desegregate the schools! Vote Socialist Workers : Peter Camejo for president, Willie Mae Reid for vice-president. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C.;LC-USZ62-101452

25. The Montgomery Bus Boycott • In December 1955, Rosa Parks was told to give up her seat on a city bus to a white person. When Parks refused to move, she was arrested. • A Baptist minister named Martin Luther King, Jr.helped organize the Montgomery Bus Boycott. • His involvement in the protest made him a national figure and a leader in the Civil Rights Movement. Woman fingerprinted. Mrs. RosaParks, Negro seamstress, whose refusal to move to the back of a bus touched off the bus boycott in Montgomery, Ala. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C.; LC-USZ62-109643

26. March on Washington • The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom took place in Washington, D.C., on August 28, 1963. Attended by some 250,000 people, it was the largest demonstration ever seen in the nation's capital, and one of the first to have extensive television coverage.

27. Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. King became aware that economic issues must be part of the civil rights movement. King went to Memphis, Tennessee to help striking sanitation workers. He led a march to city hall. James Earl Ray shot and killed King as he stood on the balcony of his motel. Within hours, rioting erupted in more than 120 cities. Within three weeks, 46 people were dead, some 2,600 were injured, and more than 21,000 were arrested. 0:55 Video Clip- Lessons Learned

28. Civil Rights Act • Over fierce opposition from Southern legislators, President L. B. Johnson pushed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 through Congress. • It prohibited segregation in public places as well as discrimination in education and employment. Short video clip -Civil Rights: President Signs Historic Bill; 2:59

29. 1900’s • Harlem Renaissance • Brown vs. Board of Education- Supreme Court ruled that racially segregated education was unconstitutional. • Montgomery Bus Boycott- Rosa Parks arrested for not giving up her seat. MLK Jr. came to lead this boycott which protestorsstopped riding city buses for over a year. Buses desegregated. • Civil Rights Act of 1964- Prohibited segregation in public places as well as discrimination in education and employment.

30. Other Groups also fought for equal civil rights Chávez speaking at a 1974 United Farm Workers rally in Delano, California

31. More 1900’s • Cesar Chavez worked for Mexican American rights and formed a farm workers’ union to improve working conditions • AIM-American Indian Movement worked to improve civil rights for Native Americans

32. Timeline • Use your notes and text pgs. 340-347 to put the correct events in order and label the correct years. • Write years on pictures • Cut and lay pics in order on timeline • Label the top of the timeline with correct years • Paste your pictures on your timeline If this is not finished in class, it will be hmwk

33. Academic Vocab • segregation-forced separation of races • Civil Rights- rights that countries guarantee their citizens • boycott- to abstain from buying or using • integration- to end segregation of people by race by allowing races to be treated equally