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Title: Civil Rights


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Civil Rights
  • Unit 6

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The Segregation System
  • Civil Rights Act of 1875 outlawed segregation in
    public facilities.
  • Supreme Court overturned law as unconstitutional
    in 1883.
  • Other court cases and state laws severely
    restricted African Americans rights.
  • Plessy vs. Ferguson
  • Jim Crow Laws

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Jim Crow Laws
  • Forbade marriage between black and white.
  • Segregated schools, streetcars, waiting rooms,
    elevators, railroad cars, public restrooms.
  • Restricted social and religious contact.
  • Facilities for blacks were always inferior.

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Segregation in 20th Century
  • WWII set stage for civil rights movement.
  • Demand for soldiers created shortage of white
    laborersopportunities for minorities.
  • 700,000 African Americans fought.
  • Civil Rights organizations began challenging
    racist laws.
  • NAACP(National Association for the Advancement of
    Colored People )
  • Thurgood Marshall won 29 out of 32 cases before
    Supreme Court.
  • Brown vs. Board of Education

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Response to Brown Decision
  • The decision affected 12 million schoolchildren.
  • Many districts complied right away.
  • Southern Manifesto 90 southern Congress
    members denounced the Brown decision and called
    on states to resist.
  • Little Rock, Arkansas Central High School
    results in Civil Rights Act of 1957.
  • Gave federal government greater power over school
    desegregation and other racial violations.

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Dr. Martin Luther King
  • Montgomery Bus Boycott Rosa Parks
  • SCLC Changing the world with Soul Force
  • Southern Christian Leadership Conference to
    carry on nonviolent crusades against the evils of
    second-class citizenship.
  • Modeled after Gandhi
  • Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
    college student protesters

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The Movement Spreads
  • SNCC staged sit-ins
  • TV crews covered the protest showing the ugly
    face of racism.
  • Sparked sit-ins across the South.
  • Sit-ins forced the desegration of lunch counters
    in 48 cities in 11 states.
  • They endured arrests, beatings, suspension, and
    tear gas and fire hoses, but refused to back down.

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