The Civil Rights Movement

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The Civil Rights Movement

• Arya Hashimi
• Ashayla Russell
• Lauren Gacutan

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The Movement

• The national effort made by black people and
  their supporters in the 1950s and 1960s to
  eliminate segregation and gain equal rights
• First began 1619, a year before the Mayflower
  when 20 African slaves were sold to settlers in
  Virginia
• "separate but equal" were the focal point of the
  Civil Rights Movement.

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A Century of Segregation

• The Montgomery bus boycott had demonstrated that
  direct action can indeed work.
• This lasted until 1956
• Elimination of segregations in public areas and
  the removal of signs was no mean feat
• Ella Baker, the Grassroots leader whose activism
  from the 1930s, pointed out that the struggle was
  the concern of something much bigger about
  segregation

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Segregation, Effective Solution to Racial
Differences?

• African Americans fought back with protests and
  political organizing.
• NAACP Campaign against lynching-successful drive
• The campaign for desegregated education was part
  of a larger struggle to reshape America's
  contours in terms of race.
• Charles Hamilton Houston, focused on segregated
  education

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Freeing the Slaves

• Slavery was the central of the war
• Emancipation Proclamation
• States rebelled
• Emancipation Proclamatin allowed Union to
  recruit black soldiers

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13th,14th,and 15th Amendment

• 13th amendment abolished slavery
• 14th amendment granted citizenship rights
• 15th amendment allowed African Americans to vote

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Breaking Baseball's Color Barrier

• Happened during 1940's
• Branch Rickey was president of the Brooklyn
  Dodgers
• Rickey signed Jackie Robinson in October 1945
• Robinson was the first Black man in the major
  leagues

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Marching For Jobs and Freedom

• August 28,1963
• Martin Luther King Jr. led a interracial peaceful
  assembly
• More than 200,000 people joined

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Million Man March

• Marched at Washington, Louis Farrakhanwas the
  leader and the Nation Isalm organizer
• 400,000 Africans joined
• Benjamin Franklin directed them

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Work Cited

• "Civil Rights 101", Civil Rights Chronology,
  9/4/14
• Clayborne Carson, "The American Civil Rights
  Movement", Encyclopedia Britannica, 9/3/14
• Kenneth R. Janken, "The Civil Rights Movement
  1919-1960s", National Humanities Center, 9/4/14