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Lecture: The Civil Rights Era
Essential Questions:
1. What legal avenues were taken to achieve advancements in the Civil Rights movement?
2. Who were the key leaders in the Civil Rights movement and what was their impact?
Part A
The Emergence of the Civil Rights Movement
Write 2 ways slaves
were treated:
The Roots of Africans’ Struggle for Equal Rights
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Write 2 ways slaves
resisted
What were blacks
forbidden to do?
Describe how schools
were unequal:
During the 1950’s African Americans led one of the most
significant social movements in U.S. history: The __________ ___________ Movement.
For over _______ years African’s were enslaved
Jim Crow Laws
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After the Civil War ___________continued to face:
 _________________ deprivation
 Racial ________________
 Segregation
 Limited ________________ rights
____________ __________ Laws: enforced segregation
______________ used terror and intimidation
School Segregation in the South
 ____________ Plessy vs. Ferguson: __________________was
lawful (“separate but equal”)
 1950’s _______________ states prohibited black and
whites to attend school together
 Public school were ____________ ______________
The Desegregation Fight Heats Up
 _____________Brown vs. Board of Education
 Thurgood _______________(NAACP) lawyer
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How did forced
segregation make the
whites feel?
Why did it take several
years for schools to
desegregate?
Part B
Argued that : * segregated schools were
_______equal
* segregation made students feel
frustrated and _____________
Segregation Ruled Unconstitutional
 Chief Justice Earl _______________ delivered Court’s
decision:
 ___________________ schools gave black children
“a feeling of inferiority” and “separate educational
facilities were unequal”
 Ended the ______________foundation of segregation
in state-government supported facilities.
School Desegregation
Why did the federal
government stall
desegregation?
White Resistance to School Integration
 _______ of Southern whites ______________ decision
 ____________ state laws passed to ____________
enforcement
 State ________ cut off
Would you have
volunteered to be a
member of the “Little
Rock Nine? Why or
Why not?
Central High School
 Little _________ Nine: 9 black students who integrated into
all-white _________________ High School
 Whites who opposed de-segregation
_______________entrance to school.
 _______________ sent the _____________ Guard to protect
students
Part C
The Montgomery Bus Boycott
What do you predict
will happen next in the
Civil Rights Movement?
Rosa Parks & The Montgomery Bus Boycott
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Part D
What made MLK a
popular leader?
Martin Luther King, Jr.
King Rises to Prominence
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Part E
Do you think you would
have taken part in the
sit-ins? Why or why
not?
Dec. 1, 1955 Rosa ____________ - arrested for refusing to
give up her seat to white man.
Black community set up _______________of buses to
protest against the arrest and the law
Martin Luther ____________- leader of the movement
Boycott lasted __________ weeks
Result: segregation on city buses was
____________________
Preached ________________ love towards _________________
His strategy was non-______________ civil
_________________
 Break ____________laws w/out violence
 Patterned after _____________
 Draw _______________attention
Elected president of the Montgomery_____________
Association and the ________________Christian
_______________ Conference (SCLC)
The Sit-in Movement
SNCC
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_________ Student ________________ Coordinating
Committee (SNCC) formed
 Strategy: demonstrate “ Justice permeated by
Love” to appeal to city officials
 Training sessions in _______________ protest
 Protested ______________ policies in theaters,
swimming pools, libraries, playgrounds and
restaurants
 _________________ had taken part in sit-ins by
_______
Part F
The Freedom Rides
How would you feel if
you participated in
freedom rides?
Freedom Rides
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May, ______________: Congress of Racial Equality
(_________)
 Leader: James ___________________
 organized a 3 week bus trip through the South to
publicize the lack of _____________ with the
Supreme Court’s decision outlawing segregation on
interstate ______________________
“_____________ ____________” were bombed and beaten
Result: ___________Kennedy ordered bus companies to
________ Supreme Court’s decision
Part G
Demonstrations in Birmingham
Why were the protests
in Birmingham
successful?
Violence in Birmingham
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Create a protest sign in
the space below:
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Part H
What do you think King
said in his speech?
Why was this speech
so popular?
July 23, 1964 MLK planned a series of ______________ and
____________ in ____________ (most racist city).
 Goal was to protest ____________ and provoke a
_____________ reaction from the police force that
would _____________ the country
 Police Commissioner: Eugene “Bull” ___________
had his police ______________demonstrators with
clubs, police dogs, and water canons.
 100’s of protesters were jailed including MLK
 “Letter from a ___________________ Jail”
Result:
 JFK sent federal ___________ to work out a
settlement
 Businesses agreed to _______________ and hire
blacks
 Bomb planted in church and killed 4 girls
The 1963 March on Washington
March on Washington
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August 28, ________________________
Demanded support to JFK’s ___________ ____________ Bill
_______________ people attended
Most memorable speech : King’s “I Have a
_______________”
Civil Rights Act of 1964
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Part I
Level 1 Question
____________ segregation in ____________ facilities
Speed up school _______________
Remove ___________ to black ______________ rights
Prohibited __________________employment and labor
practices
Voter Registration Drives
The Fight to Gain the Vote
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Blacks were prevented from _____________:
 Required blacks to pay poll taxes
 Harassed/beaten/threatened
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Level 2 Question
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Refused entrance to voter _________________
offices
Required blacks to take _______________tests
Freedom Summer
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Level 3 Question
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Over 1000 volunteered to increase ___________
________________ in the South
___________________________ campaign
Highly _______________ for participants
Leader: Fannie Lou __________________
Registered over ___________________ black voters in the
new Mississippi Freedom ______________________Party
Selma to Montgomery
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King organized a _____ day March in ______________,
Alabama
____________________ participated
National attention on ____________of _________ rights to
blacks
Voting Rights Act 1965
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______________________voter literacy tests
Outlawed _________________ taxes
Reinforced idea that all citizens had the_________ to
_________
prohibited ________________________ because of
___________
__________________ registered in 3 years
Part J
Which philosophy do
you agree with more –
King’s or Malcom X’s?
Why?
Malcolm X
The Nation of Islam (Black Muslims)
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Part K
Create a Tombstone
for King in the space
below:
Goals:
 Gain freedom, justice and _____ opportunities for
blacks
 End police __________ and legal discrimination
 Promoted ___________ and black pride
Supported using _________________ as self defense
Gained popularity due to _____________________
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Urban Race Riots
Race Riots
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Urban blacks frustrated with __________________, high
crime rates, and undesirable __________________ conditions
1965 and 1966 riots in:
 Watts, __________________, New York, Chicago and
67 other cities
________________ Commission looked into causes of riots
 Releasing ______________ of desperation they felt
 Black nationalism more relevant than King’s
philosophy
King is Assassinated
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______ went to Chicago to bring attention to plight of
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urban poor
1968 began planning “_________ People’s ______________”
April, ________ went to Memphis, Tennessee to support a
sanitation workers ______________.
 Shot and killed by James _________ ___________
Part L
A shift to Radicalism
Level 1 Question
Black Militancy
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Level 2 Question
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mid ________: some African Americans _______________
non-violent resistance
Tired of the _________progress for Civil Rights, African
Americans adopted more _____________ methods
They wanted __________________ action
 would use violence to ____________ themselves and
to get ____________ ____________
Black Power
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Idea that blacks should take control of their lives by
______________________ if necessary
Preached racial ______________________, pride and
leadership
_________________ supporters were not welcomed
Black Panther Party
Level 3 Question
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Huey __________________ – leader
 Put ideas of Black _____________________ into
practice
 Set up schools for ___________ and
breakfast programs
 ____________________ black voters
 Ran black _______________
 Collected ___________ to patrol
neighborhoods
 Actions put pressure on government to address
problems of _________________ blacks
The Legacy of the Civil Rights Movement
As you listen to the information write notes below:
Essential Question:
1.
What legal avenues were taken to achieve advancements in the Civil Rights movement?
2.
Who were the key leaders in the Civil Rights movement and what was their impact?
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