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History of the Civil Rights Movement

History of the Civil Rights Movement. MacCarthy. Essential Questions. What court cases and laws effected the Civil Rights movement before 1954? Create a bubble map to describe these issues How did desegregation play a role during the Civil Rights movement before 1954?

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History of the Civil Rights Movement

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  1. History of the Civil Rights Movement MacCarthy

  2. Essential Questions • What court cases and laws effected the Civil Rights movement before 1954? Create a bubble map to describe these issues • How did desegregation play a role during the Civil Rights movement before 1954? Create a Tree map listing examples of desegregation

  3. Early on • Why did many African Americans come to America? • Slavery • Great Awakening-Religious Movement • All people are equal • Enlightenment-Knowledge and Reason • All people have Natural Rights

  4. Early on • Many people doubted the idea of slavery • Slavery began to go away across the world • Except in the South of the US • Why?

  5. The South • Agricultural Economy • The Cotton Gin • Dred Scott v. Sandford • Slaves=Property • Brainpop

  6. Civil War • Slavery one of many issues • Emancipation Proclamation, what did it do? • 13th Amendment • Bans Slavery • 14th Amendment • Citizenship for anyone born in the US • 15th Amendment • Right to vote for all citizens

  7. Afterwards • So was everything good then? • Did everyone have equal Rights? • What other problems do you remember?

  8. Afterwards • KKK and other hate groups • Jim Crow Laws • Laws created to separate blacks and whites in public spaces http://www.nps.gov/malu/forteachers/jim_crow_laws.htm • Plessy v. Ferguson • “Separate but Equal”

  9. Times Changing • 19th Amendment • Women’s Right to Vote • Ideas of Segregation changing • WWII, what changed? • Tuskegee Airmen • No racial discrimination in hiring for government jobs

  10. Times Changing • Minorities moving to major cities during & after WWII • Truman attacks Civil Rights: • Ends racial discrimination and segregation in the Armed Forces • Tries to end poll taxes • Make anti-lynching laws • Jackie Robinson: Brainpop

  11. Essential Questions • What court cases and laws effected the Civil Rights movement before 1954? • How did desegregation play a role during the Civil Rights movement before 1954?

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