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Paperwork Stuff. Does anyone still need to take the Chapter 13 test? HW check – 14-1 Reading Notes. 14-1 Early Demands for Equality . Jim Crow Laws & Discrimination. Bottom of the economic ladder Higher rates of poverty and illiteracy Lower rates of homeownership and life expectancy

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  1. Paperwork Stuff Does anyone still need to take the Chapter 13 test? HW check – 14-1 Reading Notes

  2. 14-1 Early Demands for Equality Jim Crow Laws & Discrimination • Bottom of the economic ladder • Higher rates of poverty and illiteracy • Lower rates of homeownership and life expectancy • Voting in North – Not in South • few held public office

  3. Segregation around the Nation • African Americans faced discrimination and segregation • De facto segregation – by unwritten custom or tradition • Housing and employment • Asian Americans and Mexicans faced de facto segregation and sometimes legal restrictions • Jim Crow Laws • Strict separation of the races • De jure segregation = imposed by law • Plessy V Ferguson = separate but equal (1896) • Most areas of public life = Schools, hospitals, transportation, restaurants, cemeteries, beaches

  4. Sort the following, into either de facto or de jure segregation. • Blacks sitting in the back of the bus • Separate water fountains • Separate cemeteries • Separate neighborhoods for blacks and white • Lower paying jobs • Black attend different schools • Black and white not able to play checkers together • Inter racial marriage De Facto Segregation De Jure Segregation • Separate neighborhoods for blacks and white • Blacks sitting in the back of the bus • Lower paying jobs • Separate water fountains • Black and white not able to play checkers together • Separate cemeteries • Black attend different schools • Inter racial marriage

  5. Civil Rights Movement Grows • 1942 CORE formed to end racial injustice • Non-violent methods to gain civil rights. • Protest against segregation in North • 1945 returning soldiers unwilling to accept discrimination • 1947 Jackie Robinson joins the Brooklyn Dodgers • 1948 Truman desegregates the military POSITIVES

  6. -Racial violence erupts in the south-Truman appoints a committee for race relations-Fails to gain congress support -voting, anti lynching NEGATIVES

  7. Check Point How did segregation affect the lives of African Americans? A Facilities were not “equal” and allowed to be run down. African Americans did not experience the same economic opportunities or prosperity that whites did.

  8. Brown v. Board of Education • Civil Rights stalled in the early 1950’s • NAACP –Civil Rights Organization • Goal: legally change segregation • Thurgood Marshall • African American Lawyer • Headed team

  9. Court Cases Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) Separate but Equal Sweatt v. Painter 1950 Texas had not equal all-black law school Violated Amendment 14 Separate Not Equal McLaurin v. Oklahoma Student not given equal assess to school facilities State Regents GOAL: to challenge “separate but equal” Brown v. Board of Education Supreme court agreed segregated schools violated constitution

  10. Reaction to Brown v B.O.E • No longer “Separate but equal” • Court backed integration • The Southern Manifesto • Oppose Brown ruling through “all lawful means” • White Citizens Council • South would not be integrated • Economic and political pressure against people who agreed with Brown ruling

  11. Civil Rights Act 1957 • Eisenhower • US Civil Rights Commission • Investigate violations of civil rights • Voting rights protected • Did not help much First civil rights bill passed since reconstruction

  12. Conflict in Littlerock 1957 • Nine young students enroll • Governor sent state national guard to not let students in • Federal Troops were sent in to escort the students for one year. • most southern states still resist desegregation

  13. Montgomery Bus Boycott • Rosa Parks refuses to give up seat to white man on bus • She worked closely with NAACP • She is arrested • The Montgomery Bus Boycott • Object to segregation and Parks Arrest • Stopped using public transportation • supposed to last for 1 day

  14. King and the Bus Boycott • Martin Luther King Jr. spoke to boycotters • urged a non-violent protest • Bus Boycott continues for a year! • Finally the Supreme Court rules law segregating buss’s was unconstitutional

  15. SCLC • SCLC – Southern Christian Leadership Conference • Created after the Bus Boycott • Continued the civil rights struggle • Made up of African American Ministers • Nonviolent

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