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Frederick Douglass

William Lloyd Garrison

Civil Rights

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Plessy vs. Ferguson

Jim Crow

Civil Rights

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Booker T. Washington

Civil Rights

THE CIVIL RIGHTS

MOVEMENT

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Segregation under Jim Crow

Story of Emmitt Till

Mourners pass Emmett Till's

casket in Chicago Sept. 3,

1955.

Strange Fruit

Southern trees bear strange fruit,

Blood on the leaves and blood at the root,

Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze,

Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees.

Pastoral scene of the gallant south,

The bulging eyes and the twisted mouth,

Scent of magnolias, sweet and fresh,

Then the sudden smell of burning flesh.

Here is fruit for the crows to pluck,

For the rain to gather, for the wind to suck,

For the sun to rot, for the trees to drop,

Here is a strange and bitter crop.

Jackie Robinson

Jackie Robinson

In his years in the

minors, he was hit by

many pitches, thrown

out and forced to leave

games. Many of his

games were cancelled

because he was black.

In 1947 he became the

first African American

to play in the major

leagues.

Executive Order 9981 (1948)

Brown v. Board of Education

On May 17, 1954, the Supreme Court ruled in the Brown v. Board of Education trial the “separate facilities are inherently unequal.”

This over turned the Plessy v. Ferguson decision that said that segregation was legal as long as the facilities were “separate but equal.”

Central High School Little Rock,

Arkansas

“Little Rock 9”

National Guardsmen escorting the “Little

Rock Nine” to register for classes, Sept.

1957.

Rally at Arkansas state capital protesting the

desegregation of Central High School, 1957.

Integration: Students’ Reactions

1954: Students in an integrated classroom

in Fort Myer, Va., the year of Brown v.

Board of Education..

1961: Charlene Hunter studying in Myers

Hall, her dormitory at the University of

Georgia. Charlene is one of the first two

African Americans to attend the previously

all-white school.

Resistance to Civil Rights Legislation:

George Wallace

Wallace standing against desegregation while

being confronted by Deputy U.S. Attorney

General Nicholas Katzenbachat the University of

Alabama in 1963.

George Wallace

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Reactions to Integration

The Montgomery Bus Boycott

In December 1955, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white passenger, and she was arrested for it.

The boycott called on all African Americans in Montgomery, Alabama to not ride the bus system until the bus company changed its segregation policy.

It worked.

The boycott introduced non-violent protest to the American landscape.

Stages of Protest

Rosa Parks is fingerprinted by Deputy

Sherriff Lackey in Montgomery on

February 22 in 1956 two months after

refusing to give up her seat on a bus for a

white passenger

Rosa Parks riding a Montgomery, Ala., bus

in December 1956, after the Supreme

Court outlawed segregation on buses.

Woolworth Sit-in

Freedom Riders

Images like this one of the burned bus, helped create sympathy for the

non-violent Freedom Riders and their cause. This event drew national

attention, especially from middle-class northerners who were shocked by

the brutal violence they saw on television..

Civil Rights Act of 1964

It was a landmark piece of

legislation that outlawed racial

segregation in schools, public

places, and employment

It prohibited discrimination in

public facilities, in government,

and in employment, invalidating

the Jim Crow laws in the southern

U.S.

Civil Rights Legislation

1964 Martin Luther King, Jr. was invited to the Oval Office of the White House for

President Lyndon Johnson's signing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 King stood immediately

behind the president during the ceremony.

Voting Rights Act of 1965

The law outlawed discriminatory voting practices that had been responsible for the widespread disenfranchisement of African Americans in the United States.

It specifically went after the practice of using literacy tests in the South.

These tests required minorities to prove that they could read before they were allowed to vote.

John Howard Griffin

In 1960 John Howard

underwent skin treatment to

give him dark skin.

He moved to the south to

experience life as a man

with black skin and to see if

life was separate but equal.

Black Like Me

Read the following excerpts from

Black Like me and then answer the

following questions.

What were some of the challenges

that John encountered? How would

it have been different if the color of

his skin was different?

Reflection Quickwrite

Imagine that you went through the same procedure (You

went from one race to another). How would your life be

different? How would it be the same? (5 sentences or

more)