Civil Rights 50s

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Civil Rights 50s 60s
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NAACP

• The National Association for the Advancement of
  Colored People.
• Advance civil rights.
• Black voter registration.
• Legislative and legal maneuvering.
• Instrumental in Brown.

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Brown v. Board of Education Topeka, Kansas

• Reason for case
• NAACP and Thurgood Marshall
• Results? Significance?
• What case did this overturn?

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Montgomery Bus Boycott

• Montgomery, Alabama
• Rosa Parks/Bus
  Boycott.1955-1956
• Walk to work, taxi
• Lasts over a year
• Significance?

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Little Rock 9 -- 1957
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Sit-in Movement

• Non-violence
• Woolworths lunch counter, Greensboro, N.C.
  February 1, 1960
• The movement spread quickly.
• Boycott as weapon.
• Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee
• (SNCC). Southern black students. No
  segregation, equality, and voter registration.

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James Meredith and Ole Miss, 1962
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Birmingham, Alabama
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Birmingham BombingSeptember 15, 1963

• Four girls killed during Sunday School.
• Justice a long time coming.

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Women love hoods too!
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Wallace and the University of Alabama1963perhap
s the most dangerous racist in America today"
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Medgar Evers -- 1963
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March on Washington

• August, 1963.
• I have a dream.
• 250,000 demonstrators in a peaceful march.

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1964 Civil Rights Act

• Gave the govt more powers of enforcement in
  school desegregation cases.
• Prohibited racial discrimination in all kinds of
  public accommodations and employment.

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Dangerous work murder most foul June 1964
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Voter registration
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Voting Rights Act of 1965

• Enforcement of the 15th Amendment.
• Stop state sponsored disenfranchisement.
• Eliminated literacy tests.

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Malcolm X

• Movement away from Kings philosophy.
• Outspoken on the issue of race.
• Assassinated Feb 65.

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Black power

• Elijah Muhammad/Nation of Islam
• Black Panthers.
• Bobby Seale, Huey Newton, Stokely Carmichael.
• COINTELPRO

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Assassination of King

• April 4th, 1968 Memphis.
• James Earl Ray
• Conspiracy theory.