Civil Rights Movement

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Civil Rights Movement

• By Selika Davis

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NAACP

• The NAACP was founded by Mary White Ovington and
  W.E.B. Dubois helped found it.
• NAACP stands for National Association for the
  Advancement of Colored People.
• Its purpose is to bring equality to almost every
  state in the U.S. and to brush out the
  discriminations in the U.S. states.

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The Montgomery Bus Boycott

• The Montgomery Bus Boycott officially started on
  December 1, 1955
• The incident that sparked it was Mrs. Rosa Parks
  refusal to move out of a seat.
• The boycott was a collective of response to
  decades of intimidation, harassment, and
  discrimination of Alabamas African American
  population.

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Malcolm X

• -Leader of the Black Muslim movement whose
  separatist views were direct.
• His views prior to 1964 were more violent and
  aggressive towards racism.

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Freedom Riders

• Freedom Riders were brave
• black and white
• Men and women
• Young and old
• Boarded upon trains, planes, and buses
• Headed for the deep south to test the 1960
  Supreme Court ruling outlawing segregation in all
  interstate public facilities.

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Plessy Vs. Ferguson

• Separate but equal
• Supreme Court ruled in favor of separate areas
  for blacks and whites as long as they were equal.
• The ruling resulted in a major setback in the
  struggle for equality between races in the U.S.

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Brown Vs. the Topeka Board of Education

• In the early 1950s, racial segregation in public
  schools was the norm across America.
• Although all the schools in a given district were
  supposed to be equal, most black schools were far
  inferior to their white counterparts.

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March on Washington 1963

• I Have a Dream speech.
• Bayard Rustin managed the march
• This march took place on August 28, 1963 and had
  over 250,000 participants
• The March on Washington reasoning was for jobs
  and freedom for African Americans.

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March from Selma to Montgomery

• The march took place on March 7, 1965
• The march was for the protest of voting rights
• Marchers were beaten, tear gassed, and hosed.
• Reverend James Reeb died March 11 from a head
  injury on March 7.

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Nation of Islam and the Black Power Movement

• The Nation of Islam and the Black Power Movement
  taught African Americans to be more aggressive
  towards discrimination.

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Booker T. Washington

• Booker T was an American writer known for the
  books
• The future of the American Negro in 1899
• His autobiography Up from Slavery in 1901
• Life of Frederick Douglass in 1907
• The Story of the Negro in 1909, and
• My Larger Education in 1911
• Believed all African Americans should be educated

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W.E.B. Dubois

• Co-founder of the NAACP
• Most outspoken Civil Rights activist in America
• Inspiration for the literary movement known as
  the Harlem Renaissance

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Who Killed our King?

• Its been said that James Earl Ray assassinated
  Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
• No evidence matched to James
• This assassination took place on April 4,1968 at
  601 pm at Motel Lorraine in Memphis, TN.
• James was sentence to life in prison.

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Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)

• Founded by Martin Luther King Jr.
• The SCLC embodied the vision and philosophy of
  its founding president.

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Dred Scott Case

• The decision of this case contributed to the
  tensions leading to the Civil War.

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!5th Amendment

• Ratified on February 3, 1870
• -is the right to vote
• more remarkable for what it does not than for
  what it does contains

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Civil Rights Act of 1964

• This act made racial discrimination in all public
  places illegal.
• It also required employers to provide equal
  employment opportunities.

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13th Amendment

• - Abolished slavery as a legal institution
• Passed on December 6, 1865 by Abraham Lincoln

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What are the Jim Crow Laws?

• -imposed legal punishments on people for
  consorting with members of another race.

• Examples are
• Restaurants
• Bused
• Nurses (white couldnt aide black s)
• Intermarriage
• Toilet facilities
• Etc.

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De Jure Vs. De Facto

• De Jure Segregation is segregated by law
• Segregated restrooms
• Segregated restaurants
• Etc.

• De Facto segregation is segregated by people
• stereotypes

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Birmingham, Alabama in 1963

• Birmingham became the focus for the Civil Rights
  Movement.
• Churched bombed killing four church girls.
• City with worst racism
• Bull Connor