The Civil Rights Movement in Virginia

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The Civil Rights Movement in Virginia
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The Civil Rights Movement in Virginia

• Civil Rights the privileges that you enjoy as a
  citizen.
• These include rights such as voting and equal
  opportunity to get a job!
• For African Americans of this time period (era),
  it also meant being able to sit anywhere you
  wanted to on a bus or being served in any
  restaurant!

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The Civil Rights Movement in Virginia

• During WW II, many African Americans fought for
  their country.
• When the war was over, they returned home
  determined to obtain (get) their full civil
  rights.

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The Civil Rights Movement in Virginia

• This campaign for equal rights is called the
  Civil Rights Movement.
• During the 20th century (the 1900s), Virginia
  struggled over the issue of civil rights.

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Desegregation and Integration

• Segregation - the separation of people, usually
  based on race or religion.
• Desegregation abolishment of racial
  segregation.
• Integration Full equality of all races in the
  use of public facilities.

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Protests Against Segregation Blacks Fight Back!

• Boycott to not buy something as a way of
  protest.
• This is a picture of Rosa Parks this led to a
  bus boycott!

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Protests Against Segregation African Americans
Fight Back!

• Sit-in to protest something by sitting in a
  place and refusing to move.

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The Separate But Equal Policy

• The separate but equal policy tried to offer
  African Americans their own schools.
• These schools would treat blacks equally but
  continue to be separate from whites.

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Desegregation and Massive Resistance in Virginia

• In the 1954 court case of Brown vs Board of
  Education, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that
  separate but equal public schools were
  unconstitutional. (against the law)

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Desegregation and Massive Resistance in Virginia

• All public schools, including those in Virginia,
  were ordered to integrate. (desegregate)
• That meant both blacks and whites would attend
  the same schools!

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Desegregation and Massive Resistance in Virginia

• Virginias government established a policy of
  Massive Resistance, which fought to resist the
  integration of public schools!
• This meant that the Virginia state government did
  not want whites and blacks attending the same
  schools!

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Desegregation and Massive Resistance in Virginia

• Some schools were closed in order to avoid
  integration!
• The policy of Massive Resistance failed, and
  Virginias public schools were integrated.
  (desegregated)

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Harry F. Byrd, Sr.

• Harry F. Byrd, Sr. led a Massive Resistance
  Movement against the integration (desegregation)
  of public schools.

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Civil Rights Movement

• As a result of the Civil Rights Movement, laws
  were passed that made racial discrimination
  illegal.