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Unit 7 CP United States HistoryCivil Rights Part 1
1950’s, 1960’s, Civil RightsTruman, Eisenhower, JFK, LBJ, Nixon
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Civil Rights
• Segregation, Jim Crow Laws• Plessy vs. Ferguson (1896)• NAACP• Thurgood Marshall• Brown vs. Board of Topeka (1954)• Resistance– KKK– White Citizens Council
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Civil Rights
• Emmett Till (1955)– From Chicago– Mississippi– “bye baby”– Not guilty
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Civil Rights
• Rosa Parks– Montgomery, Alabama– Bus Boycott (1955-1956)– SCLC (Southern Christian Leadership Conference)– MLK Jr.– Supreme Court desegregated busses
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Civil Rights
• SCLC & MLK Jr.– Sit ins– Marches– Demonstrations– Non-violence– Civil disobedience– Boycotts– Cripple them economically
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Civil Rights
• Little Rock, Arkansas (1957)– Central High School– Governor Orval Faubus– National Guard– Eisenhower– Put National Guard under federal government
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Civil Rights
• 1957 Civil Rights Act:• gave the Attorney General greater
power over desegregation• federal government authority over
violations• Use the courts to enforce 15th
amendment
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Civil Rights• SNCC (1960)– Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee– Immediate change– Sit ins
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Civil Rights
• Greensboro, NC– Woolworth’s sit ins at lunch counters
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Civil Rights
• Freedom Rides (1961)– SNCC & CORE– Prohibited segregation in interstate transportation– Washington DC to Jackson, MS– Fire bombed & beaten– Robert Kennedy (Attorney General)– Federal marshalls sent– ICC prohibited segregation, sue
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Civil Rights
• SNCC vs. SCLC• MLK believed SNCC to confrontational• SCLC & SNCC joined in Albany, Ga. (1961)– Demonstrations & boycotts– failed
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Civil Rights• Birmingham, Alabama (1963)• “Bombingham”• 16th St. Church• Marches• Children’s March• MLK arrested• “Letter from a Birmingham Jail”• Fire hoses• Police dogs• On television, media attention
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Civil Rights
• JFK Acts because of Birmingham• Proposed the 1963 Civil Rights Act• Enforce 14th and 15th amendments• Televised speech• Plans for a “March on Washington”
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Civil Rights
• Medgar Evers– Field Secretary of NAACP in Mississippi– Shot in his drive way– “Ghosts of Mississippi”
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Civil Rights
• August 28, 1963• March on Washington• Over 250,000• A. Philip Randolph• MLK “I Have a Dream”
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JFK
• November 22, 1963• JFK assassinated
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Civil Rights
• Johnson gets Congress to pass 1964 Civil Rights Act
• 1964 Civil Rights Act– Prohibited discrimination in employment and
public accomidations (no more Jim Crow)– EEOC– DOJ to enforce laws– US government will protect black voting rights
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Civil Rights
• Freedom Summer (1964)– Bob Moses– SNCC– Voter registration– Mississippi– White college students recruited– Schwerner, Cheney, and Goodman– FBI and US military sent in– Shot and beaten– Guility but not of murder
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Civil Rights
• Selma, Alabama (1965)– Voting rights– 1st attempt March 7th
• Bloody Sunday• No MLK
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Civil Rights
• Selma, Alabama– 2nd attempt– March 21, 1965– 50 miles from Selma to Montgomery– MLK– 25,000 walked 5 days– FBI and National Guard
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Unit 7 CP United States HistoryCivil Rights Part 2
• 1965– Johnson proposes Voting Rights Act of 1965– Eliminated literacy tests– US govt. registers to vote (power away from
states)– Twenty-Fourth Amendment – Outlawed the Poll Tax
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Civil Rights
• The North (Chicago)• De facto segregation• Where you live• Northern cities• Jobs• Homes• Poverty• Change too slow• SCLC doesn’t work
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Civil Rights
• Nation of Islam– Elijah Muhammad– Islamic heritage– A black nation within the United States
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Civil Rights
• Malcolm X– Black Nationalism– Separate themselves from white America– Broke away from Nation of Islam– “any means necessary”– Began to work with MLK– Assassinated February 21, 1965
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Civil Rights
• Black Panthers– Black Nationalism & violent action– White flight– Inner cities growing– End de facto segregation– Ensure that black rights weren’t violated by racist cops– Build strong black communities– Fighting poverty– Food programs
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Civil Rights
• Poverty– Riots – Violence – Summers of 1965 and 1967– Detroit, Watts, Hough
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Civil Rights
• Education– Key to fight poverty– Forced busing – Boston
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Where Are We Now?
• 50 year anniversary• De jure segregation gone• De facto segregation still here• 33.9% of children in poverty are black• 24.2% of African Americans live in poverty
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Latinos and Native Americans23.1
• Latinos grew from 3 to 9 million• Mexican: largest group-SW and Ca.• Cuban: Miami, NYC, NJ• United Farm Workers Organizing Committee• Cesar Chavez• Cultural Pride “Chicanos” “Brown Power”• Political Power: La Raza Unida
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Native Americans23.1
• Lack of autonomy• Refused to assimilate• 1954-Eisenhower Termination policy• 1961- Seek an end to Termination policy• 1968- National Council on Indian Opportunity• American Indian Movement (AIM)– Land, burial grounds, violent protest– Wounded Knee takeover
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Native Americans23.1
• Victories– Indian Education Act– Self Determination and Assistance Act– Sued for their land back• New Mexico, Alaska
– Legal recognition of tribal lands and financial reparations
– Casinos
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Women Fight for Equality23.2
• Betty Freidan• Feminine Mystique• Feminism• Salary differences• 1960: 40% women in workforce• Discrimination, glass ceiling
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Women Fight for Equality23.2
• Discriminated within other movements• Women’s Liberation Movement• NOW• EEOC• Gloria Steinem• Ms.• Job requirements, education, Title IX• Roe v Wade• Birth Control Pill
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Women Fight for Equality23.2
• ERA– 38 states
• Phyllis Schlafly– Stop ERA campaign– New Right: pro-family, anti-abortion, conservatism
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Women Fight for Equality23.2
• Legacy– ERA failed 3 votes– Transformed women’s roles in the home and in
the workplace– Career opportunities expanded– Medical and law school up to 42% and 44%– 13.5% of elected state offices
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Equal Rights Struggle842-845
• Geraldine Ferraro- 1984• Elizabeth Dole- Sec. of Transportation 1983• Income gap• Divorce• Rape and domestic violence• Poverty• He for She- Emma Watson, UN Ambassador,
Gender Equality
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