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February 23, 2009 Test #2 5th Six Weeks

February 23, 2009 Test #2 5th Six Weeks. “The Civil Rights Movement” Objectives: When and where did the first African-Americans arrive in the U.S.? 2. What was the name given to the route of the Triangular Trade that involved the forced transport of slaves from Africa to America?

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February 23, 2009 Test #2 5th Six Weeks

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  1. February 23, 2009 Test #2 5th Six Weeks • “The Civil Rights Movement” • Objectives: • When and where did the first African-Americans • arrive in the U.S.? • 2. What was the name given to the route of the Triangular Trade that involved the forced transport of slaves from Africa to America? • 3. What were known as the Civil War laws?

  2. What restrictions were used to prevent African-Americans from voting? 5. What did many southern states pass to segregate races in public places?

  3. Arrival of Virginia’s first African-Americans. It is estimated that some 10 million people were brought from Africa to America as slaves.

  4. Nowhere in the annals of history has a people experienced such a long and traumatic ordeal as Africans during the Atlantic slave trade. Over the nearly four centuries of the slave - which continued until the end of the Civil War - millions of African men, women, and children were savagely torn from their homeland, herded onto ships, and dispersed all over the so-called New World. Although there is no way to compute exactly how many people perished, it has been estimated that between thirty and sixty million Africans were subjected to this horrendous triangular trade system and that only one third-if that-of those people survived...'

  5. 1. 1619, Jamestown, Virginia • 2. Middle Passage • 3. 13th Amendment 1865 – abolished slavery 14th Amendment 1868 – former slaves granted citizenship 15th Amendment 1870 – granted former slaves the right to vote

  6. 4. Poll Taxes – special fee that had to be paid before a person was permitted to vote Literacy Tests – used to demonstrate that a voter could read, write, and meet minimum standards of knowledge 5. Jim Crow Laws

  7. Objectives: 2/24/09 • 1. What is the significance of the Plessy v. Ferguson case (1896)? • 2. What is the significance of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas case (1954)? • 3. What were the major events of the Civil Rights Movement 1954-1965?

  8. 1. Established the “separate but equal” doctrine in the U.S. • 2. Landmark decision in which the court overturned the separate but equal doctrine, thus banning racial segregation in public schools.

  9. 1. Aug 1955 – Murder of 14 yr old Emmet Till in Mississippi

  10. Roy Bryant and J. W. Milam

  11. 2. Dec. 1 1955 Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott (1st organized movement by African- Americans to fight segregation). Martin Luther King, Jr. emerges as a leading Civil Rights leader.

  12. 3. Clinton High School in Tennessee became the first public high school in the South to desegregate (Aug. 1956). Governor Frank Clement sent the National Guard to uphold the law.

  13. 4. Sep. 1957 – Central High School (Little Rock, Arkansas) “Little Rock Nine” meet resistance. Governor Orval Faubus orders National Guard to keep students out. President Eisenhower responds by sending in federal forces

  14. Little Rock Nine

  15. 5. Feb. 1960 – First sit-ins staged in Greensboro, N.C. by college students known as the “Greensboro Four” Feb. 1960 sit-ins organized in Nashville, Tn. (Diane Nash- key leader) May 10, 1960, Nashville becomes the first major city to begin desegregating its public facilities

  16. Downtown lunch-counters targeted by the sit-ins included: 1. S. H. Kress; 2. McLellans; 3. Woolworths; 4. Grants; 5. Walgreens; 6. Cain-Sloan; 7. Harveys; 8. Greyhound; 9. Trailways; 10. Moon-McGrath

  17. 6. 1961- “Freedom Riders” –Washington, D.C. to New Orleans. Purpose was to test southern compliance with desegregation laws. Led to the banning of segregation in all interstate travel facilities.

  18. 7. Sep. 1962- James Meredith meets resistance as he attempts to become the first black student at Ole Miss University.

  19. April 12, 1963- Arrest of Martin Luther King, Jr. in Birmingham, Alabama Eugene “Bull” Connor

  20. 8. June 11, 1963 - Governor George Wallace of Alabama stands in the “school house door” refusing to admit two African-American students to the University of Alabama

  21. June 11, 1963- President John Kennedy submits legislation that later becomes the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (see terms)

  22. 9. June 12, 1963- Murder of Medgar Evers in Jackson, MS

  23. 10. Aug. 28, 1963 – The March on Washington. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivers “I Have A Dream” speech.

  24. 11. Sep. 15, 1963- Birmingham Bombings killing four African-American girls

  25. Thomas Blanton 1977 Bobby Frank Cherry 2002 2001

  26. Marcus Garvey Booker T. Washington W.E.B. DuBois

  27. Strom Thurmond Eugene “Bull” Conner George Wallace

  28. Albert Gore, Sr.

  29. Malcolm X Stokely Carmichael

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