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? starter activity
What does the story of Emmett Till tell us about
the challenges facing the Civil Rights campaign
in the southern states of America?
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How did civil rights campaigns develop between
1955 and 1962?
? Aims

• To identify reasons for early civil rights
  successes
• Compare similarities differences between
  landmark test cases

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? Your task

• Study the information on Emmett Till Autherine
  Lucy on p.61 and list the reasons why these two
  cases are so significant.

Emmett Till with his mother
Autherine Lucy with Thurgood Marshall
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Significance of Till Lucy cases

• Media interest trial funeral of Till with
  open casket expulsion of 1st black student
• Legal prosecution - 1st time whites had been
  accused of murder of a black Lucy to Alabama
  University to federal court
• Lack of presidential intervention - President
  Eisenhower didnt comment on either case, in
  contrast with Truman

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? Your task

• Read p.62 and note down what was helping civil
  rights advance and what was limiting them

Students at Alabama University, burning
desegregation literature
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Help hindrance

• Presidential interventions e.g. Truman, e.g.
  To Secure These Rights (1947)
• Key legal rulings against segregation in housing,
  interstate railroads and education, e.g. Brown
  (1954) Brown II (1955)
• Supreme court support, e.g. Earl Warren
• Growth of NAACP
• Key individuals, e.g. Lucy Rosa Parks
• BUT lack of Congressional support lack of
  support from Eisenhower

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• Study the events and impact of Brown (1954 5),
  Montgomery Bus Boycott (1956) Little Rock
  (1957) (p.63-66 69-71). What similarities
  differences do you notice between the cases?

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? Extension task

• Conduct some further research on Rosa Parks. Read
  p. 66-8 and list reasons why she is the best
  remembered female campaigner in the civil rights
  movement. Does she deserve this title?

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? Plenary

• What was significant about the Emmett Till and
  Autherine Lucy cases?
• Give 3 similarities 3 differences between the
  early landmark test cases of the civil rights
  movement.

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? Homework

• Study p.56-62 p. 70-6 and complete a scales
  chart weighing up evidence that Eisenhower took
  positive steps to advance civil rights and
  evidence he did little.
• What factors influenced Eisenhowers decisions?