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1. Warm Up: ImagesNotes on: Civil Rights Movement (2) Closing Activity: QuotesReview

2. THE MOVEMENT GROWS -protests of continued segregation -1960 Greensboro Sit-in movement Protestors sit down at segregated lunch counters and refuse to leave until they are served. Typically students who could be beaten, jeered at, and/or had food thrown or poured on them -Freedom Riders Men who went on one of two buses to test the Supreme Courts ban on segregated seating on interstate bus routes and segregated terminals
3. THE MOVEMENT GROWS -protests of continued segregation -1960 Greensboro Sit-in movement Protestors sit down at segregated lunch counters and refuse to leave until they are served. Typically students who could be beaten, jeered at, and/or had food thrown or poured on them -Freedom Riders Men who went on one of two buses to test the Supreme Courts ban on segregated seating on interstate bus routes and segregated terminals
4. THE MOVEMENT GROWS -protests of continued segregation -1960 Greensboro Sit-in movement Protestors sit down at segregated lunch counters and refuse to leave until they are served. Typically students who could be beaten, jeered at, and/or had food thrown or poured on them -Freedom Riders Men who went on one of two buses to test the Supreme Courts ban on segregated seating on interstate bus routes and segregated terminals
5. BIRMINGHAM AS AN EXAMPLE -protestors meet with violence Chains, brass knuckles, pistols, and iron bars -April, 1963 police use dogs, and fire hoses on protestors Bull Connor – Police Commissioner arrested 959 children. II crusade- knocked off their feet, clubbed, and attacked by dogs -bad publicity Denounced the beatings and treatment of the children
6. BIRMINGHAM AS AN EXAMPLE -Justice Dept. finally steps in 400 US Marshalls to protect the riders of the freedom rides; banned segregation; start to prosecute violence -Kennedy voices support Calls for a new Civil Rights Act to end violence
7. UNIVERSITY TROUBLES -James Meredith – Air Force Veteran- U. of Mississippi – Court case allowed Meredith to enroll in an all-white University; Gov. refused to let him register; Kennedy sent federal Marshalls – Riots- thousands of soldiers, 200 arrests, and 15 hours to stop riots -George Wallace Gov. of Alabama – troops sent to force Wallace to honor a court order to integrate the University of Alabama – promised segregation FOREVER in election -Kennedy uses Federal agents and troops to confront segregationist state leaders
8. UNIVERSITY TROUBLES -James Meredith – Air Force Veteran - U. of Mississippi – Court case allowed Meredith to enroll in an all-white University; Gov. refused to let him register; Kennedy sent federal Marshalls – Riots- thousands of soldiers, 200 arrests, and 15 hours to stop riots -George Wallace Gov. of Alabama – troops sent to force Wallace to honor a court order to integrate the University of Alabama -Kennedy uses Federal agents and troops to confront segregationist state leaders
9. MARCH ON WASHINGTON -August 1963 Emancipation in 1863 – 250,000 people (75,000 whites) -promote civil rights Speakers discussing the Civil Rights Bill -held outside Lincoln Memorial Assembled people on the lawn of the Washington Monument -MLK Jr. speech “I have a Dream” – appeal for peace and harmony – succeed in “all men are equal”
10. MARCH ON WASHINGTON -August 1963 Emancipation in 1863 – 250,000 people (75,000 whites) -promote civil rights Speakers discussing the Civil Rights Bill -held outside Lincoln Memorial Assembled people on the lawn of the Washington Monument -MLK Jr. speech “I have a Dream” – appeal for peace and harmony – succeed in “all men are equal”
11. CIVIL RIGHTS LEGISLATION -Kennedy assassination Nov. 1963 – had begun to push for desegregation before assassination -civil rights in question Would Johnson continue or stop the push for Civil Rights? -Johnson pledges to support movement Continues Kennedy’s work -Nation is inspired by Kennedy’s goals -Civil Rights Act of 1964 ended segregation in all public places
12. CIVIL RIGHTS LEGISLATION -Passage of the 24th Amendment 1964 – prohibits poll taxes and other taxes from discriminating voting -Freedom Summer 1964 – project to register as many African Americans as possible to vote -Voting in Mississippi -Selma, Alabama voting drive Selma to Montgomery March 600 set out on 50 mi. – stopped by police; 3,000 set out on 50 mi. w/ federal protection -Voting Rights Act of 1965 – eliminated literacy tests
13. CIVIL RIGHTS LEGISLATION -Passage of the 24th Amendment 1964 – prohibits poll taxes and other taxes from discriminating voting -Freedom Summer 1964 – project to register as many African Americans as possible to vote -Voting in Mississippi -Selma, Alabama voting drive Selma to Montgomery March 600 set out on 50 mi. – stopped by police; 3,000 set out on 50 mi. w/ federal protection -Voting Rights Act of 1965 – eliminated literacy tests
14. CIVIL RIGHTS LEGISLATION -Passage of the 24th Amendment 1964 – prohibits poll taxes and other taxes from discriminating voting -Freedom Summer 1964 – project to register as many African Americans as possible to vote -Voting in Mississippi -Selma, Alabama voting drive Selma to Montgomery March 600 set out on 50 mi. – stopped by police; 3,000 set out on 50 mi. w/ federal protection -Voting Rights Act of 1965 – eliminated literacy tests
15. “We will continue our journey one way or another.,..We are prepared to die.” Jim Zwerg, Freedom Rider “if we let them stop us with violence, the movement is dead!… Your troops have been badly battered. Let us pick up the baton and run with it.” Diana Nash, SNCC leader “Violence is a fearful thing,…I remember when I had to take a stand, where the words wouldn’t come out of my mouth,…because the fear was in me so strong.” Avon Rollings, SNCC “This (Birmingham) is the most segregated city in America,… We have to stick together if we ever want to change its ways.” Martin Luther King Jr.
16. Quiz
17. This movement began in 1960 in Greensboro, NC?
18. These people tried to protest segregation in bus stations by riding buses and physically integrating the white only section?
19. This city was the site of a massive civil Rights protest in 1963 where protestors were attacked by fire hoses and police dogs?
20. He tried to gain admission into the all white University of Mississippi?
21. He was the governor of Alabama who ran for re-election on the slogan of “segregation today, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever.”
22. This was the large civil rights protest in 1963 when Martin Luther King gave a famous speech?
23. Name the famous speech King gave?
24. Name the law passed in 1964 which banned discrimination in all public places?
25. The effort to register black voters in Mississippi in 1964 was called?
26. This federal law passed in 1965 guaranteed all citizens the right vote without state interferences?