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African American Civil Rights Movement. Quickly Review Previous Black Civil Rights Struggles (1850’s – 1940’s). Pre Civil War Abolition Movement Starts push for black rights Reconstruction Era has mixed legacy 13 th , 14 th & 15 th Amendments passed Federal Gov’t mainly ignores
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African American Civil Rights Movement
Quickly Review Previous Black Civil Rights Struggles (1850’s – 1940’s)
Pre Civil War Abolition Movement Starts push for black rights Reconstruction Era has mixed legacy • 13th, 14th & 15th Amendments passed • Federal Gov’t mainly ignores black civil rights during “Gilded Age” • Jim Crow Laws become entrenched • Plessy v. Ferguson Supports segregation
Booker T. Washington WEB DuBois Progressive Era Black Civil Rights Activist Differ in Goals & Tactics
1920’s & 1930’s NAACP Harlem Renaissance Marcus Garvey UNIA “New Negro”
II. Non-Violent Civil Disobedience (mid 1950’s & early ’60’s)“Grassroots” actiongarners media attention and lead to federal involvement & legal change
Montgomery Bus Boycotts Martin Luther King Rosa Parks SCLC Civil Disobedience
Little Rock Nine Confrontation Results from Brown v. Board decision Dixiecrats Critical of violation of “states Rights”
Lunch Counter Sit-Ins Organized by CORE & SNCC
Freedom Rides
Freedom Summer & Civil Rights Workers Murdered
High Tide of Non-Violent Black Civil Rights Movement March on Washington & “I Have a Dream” Speech Landmark Legislation: Civil Rights Act (1964) Voting Rights Act (1965) 24th Amendment (1965) Limits of Success??? Laws change faster than attitudes…rising expectations leads to growing frustration by late 1960’s