MS in the Postwar Period

1. MS in the Postwar Period

2. *Civil Rights are the basic rights of citizens, such as free speech and the right to vote, privacy, and property ownership.

3. Separate-but-equal concept • *In 1896, the U.S. Supreme Court had issued a ruling in the Plessy v. Ferguson case that legally established this concept. • *This concept allowed states to pass laws to segregate public facilities for blacks and whites.

4. The Crisis at Ole Miss • *James Meredith was the 1st African American to be enrolled at the University of Mississippi. • It was long hard journey… This caused riots and tons of chaos on campus. • *Things got so harsh, Mississippi National Guardsman and twenty thousand federal troops were sent to Oxford.

5. The Civil Rights Movement • Throughout the 1960’s, a number of organizations and individuals worked to end segregation and to register black Mississippians to vote. (NAACP, SNCC) • *Tougaloo College faculty members and students conducted protests and sit-ins(demonstrations where people enter a public facility and refuse to leave) to desegregate the Jackson Public Library.

6. **Freedom Summer (1964)** • *Over a thousand college students, most of them white, traveled to MS to conduct schools for black children and to help black citizens register to vote. • When they were here, they lived in black homes.. Their presence made many white Mississippians angry. • By August, 4 people had died, 80 beaten, over a 1,000 arrested… Also, 67 Churches, homes, and businesses had been burned down or bombed.

7. Freedom Summer Continued… • The most notable deaths that happened were those in Neshoba County. • *Andrew Goodman, Michael Schwerner, and James Chaney… They were investigating a Church being burned. (They were arrested, released, then abducted and murdered.)

8. Who were dixiecrats???

9. Worker’s Compensation • Why was worker’s comp. created, what does it do??…. • Does it still help workers today?……