Civil Rights Era 19541970

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Civil Rights Era 1954-1970
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Life for Black Americans from 1865-1950

• Segregation in the Southern States and the
  Midwest
• Blacks in the South were unable to vote.
• Discrimination and humiliation were common

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Emmett Till
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This gruesome photo of Emmett Till helped spark
the civil rights movement. It demonstrated the
brutality of southern violence towards
African-Americans, and created outrage across the
nation. Emmett's mother, Mamie, insisted at his
funeral that he be given an open-casket, so
others could see what they had done to her boy.
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Segregated Schools
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The Problem That We all Live With
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Brown V. Board of Education
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• Thurgood Marshall

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Southern reaction to Brown v. Board

• Southern states closed schools rather than
  integrate.
• Southerners began to use symbols of the
  Confederacy, especially the flag
• The KKK once again grew powerful

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State Flags of Alabama Georgia,Mississippi
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Rosa Parks
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Montgomery Bus Boycott
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Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Mahatma Gandhi
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The Little Rock Nine
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Ike Takes Charge
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Sit-Ins
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Sit-Ins
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Freedom Riders
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The Birmingham Protests 1963
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James Meredith
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George Wallace blocking the Door
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The March on Washington 1963
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Civil Rights Act of 1964

• Most important Civil Rights law since
  Reconstruction
• Outlawed segregation and discrimination

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Voting Rights Act of 1965

• Outlawed poll taxes, literacy tests, and
  grandfather clause.
• Meant to ensure the right to vote of
  African-Americans

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16th Street Baptist Church Bombing
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Confrontation at the Edmund Pettus Bridge
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Black Power
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Malcolm X
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By Any Means Necessary
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Nation of Islam
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Black Power

• African-Americans began to take African names.
• African-Americans began to dress and wear their
  hair in traditional African styles
• Black people began to seek to control their own
  economies

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The Black Panthers
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Urban Rioting
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Busing
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