THE CIVIL RIGHTS

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THE CIVIL RIGHTS
MOVEMENT
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OBJECTIVES

• The causes and the effects of the Civil Rights
  Movement
• Examine the major campaigns during that Era
• Examine and evaluate some of the Government
  policies implemented
• Compare the issues impacting the nation then and
  now.

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  movement?
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• A major goal of the civil rights movement of the
  1950s and 1960s was to
• (1) End racial segregation
• (2) Reduce prejudice against immigrants
• (3) Reform prison conditions
• (4) Improve living conditions for Native American
  Indians

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Question 2

• In Brown v. Board of Education (1954), the
  Supreme Court ruled that racially separated
  education was
• (1) A state's rights issue
• (2) An acceptable practice in education
• (3) Unequal and unconstitutional

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• 3. Organizations involved in the civil rights
  movement included
• (1) Montgomery Improvement Association
• (2) Southern Christian Leadership Conference
  (SCLC)
• (3) Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee
  (SNCC)
• (4) All of the above

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Question 4

• In the struggle for African-American civil
  rights, Rosa Parks is most closely associated
  with the
• (1) March on Washington, D.C.
• (2) Voter registration drives in Mississippi
• (3) Bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama
• (4) Sit-in demonstrations in North Carolina

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Question 5

• A major goal of the Seneca Falls Convention
  (1848) was to
• (1) Form a new political party
• (2) Oppose the Mexican War
• (3) Publicize the need for womens rights
• (4) Improve public education

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African Americans Efforts

• African Americans had suffered from racism and
  discrimination in the US since colonial times.
• In the mid-1900s, many African American believed
  that time had come for them to enjoy an equal
  place in American life.
• They fought for equal opportunities in jobs,
  housing, and education.
• Most of all, they fought against racial
  segregation.
• The quest for civil rights became a nationwide
  movement in the 1960s as African Americans won
  political and legal rights, and segregation was
  largely abolished.

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African Americans Efforts Summary
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Fight for Women Rights

• 1961 President John F Kennedy created the
  Commission on the Status of Women
• Women, though an ever growing part of the
  workforce, received lower pay than men even for
  the same jobs
• 1963 Congress passed the Equal Pay Act
• In the next several years women continued to
  fight for equal rights

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Hispanic Americans Efforts

• The fight for rights started among Mexican
  American migrant farm workers
• They did backbreaking work for low wages
• When the job ended, they had to travel to
  different farms in search of the next job
• Early 1960s with Cesar Chavez as their leader
  they formed the United Farm workers union to
  fight for better pay and working conditions

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Native Americans Efforts

• In the 1950s, the federal government encouraged
  Native Americans to leave the reservations to
  look for work in cities. Many could not find
  these jobs.
• There were few jobs or other opportunities on
  reservations
• Many Native Americans lived below the poverty
  line
• In 1966, a study revealed the most Native
  Americans would not live pass 46 yrs.
• In the 1960s, Native Americans organized to fight
  these problems. They wanted political power. The
  National Congress of American Indians( NCAI) was
  formed

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Governments Actions Policies

• 1964 Civil Rights Act
• 1965 Voting Rights Act of 1965
• 1966 Department of Housing and Urban
  Development
• 1968 Indian Civil Rights Act

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