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Title: AfricanAmerican Civil Rights


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African-American Civil Rights
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The Standards
  • SS07-S3C2-02 Identify the government's role in
    progressive reform (e.g. civil rights)
  • SS08-S1C9-06 Describe the importance of the
    following civil rights issues? and? events
  • Jim Crow Laws
  • nonviolent protests
  • desegregation
  • Civil Rights Act of 1964
  • Voting Rights Act of 1965

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Identify the government's role
  • 13th Amendment
  • 14th Amendment
  • 15th Amendment
  • 1866 Civil Rights Act
  • 1871 Ku Klux Klan Act
  • Freedmens Bureau

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Jim Crow Laws
  • By the end of the 1870s all southern states
    except MS, SC, LA, FL reverted to Democratic rule
  • In 1883 the Supreme Court struck down the civil
    rights act of 1875 and said that private citizens
    did not have to recognize the civil rights
    granted by the 14th amendment
  • By 1887 southern railroads became the first
    segregated public accommodation

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Jim Crow Laws
  • By the early 1890s Jim Crow was firmly in place
    in the south literacy requirements to vote
    registration laws property requirements secret
    ballot poll tax grandfather clause separate
    accommodations
  • 1896 -- Plessy v Ferguson upheld separate but
    equal
  • 1898 -- Williams v Mississippi upheld legal
    disenfranchisement

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Jim Crow Laws
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Jim Crow Laws
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Jim Crow Laws
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Jim Crow Laws
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Jim Crow Laws
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Jim Crow Laws
  • http//www.bergen.org/OurStory/projects/separate_B
    OE/
  • Separate Cannot Be Equal Brown Versus Board of
    Education
  • Created by Jennifer Brunet, Bergenfield High
    School andBeth Sclafani, Northern Valley Regional
    High School, Demarest, NJ

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nonviolent protests
  • What is nonviolent protest?
  • What does that mean?
  • When/where did nonviolent protest occur?
  • Why?
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