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Civil Rights and Equality
Movement
The Turning Tide in the 1960s
Brief Introduction to
the African – American Movement
You Tube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vs
ZVxH3JJ3Q
Stirrings of Change
Focus on the following
questions:
 The fight for equality
had begun many
years before, but
had much truly
changed since the
post – Civil War era?
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What were African
– Americans
fighting for? Why
are these rights so
important?
Do you believe that
true equality of
races has been
achieved in the
United States? In
the world?
Timeline Recap
1700 – 1790: Several instances of black slave
revolts; in 1777, the Constitution of Vermont
(a sovereign state at the time) is the first
future state to abolish slavery.
1790 – 1810: Manumission of slaves in some
free states; in 1808 the importation of slaves
into America is banned.
Timeline Recap
1839: Slave revolt on La Amistad.
1861 – 1865: Tens of thousands of enslaved
African – American slaves escape to the Union
lines for freedom; the Emancipation
Proclamation goes into effect.
1865: The Thirteenth Amendment to the United
States Constitution goes into effect, abolishing
slavery.
Timeline Recap
1860s: The Ku Klux Klan is formed in Pulaski,
Tennessee by white Confederate veterans.
1870: The Fifteenth Amendment to the
Constitution guarantees the right of male
citizens of the United States to vote
regardless of race, color or previous
condition of servitude.
Where does the root of revolt
begin?
Reconstruction?
Jim Crow Laws?
Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King?
Major Events in the Civil Rights
Movement
1950s
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1954: Brown vs. Board
of Education:
unconstitutional to
separate school
children by race.
1955: Rosa Parks
refuses to give her seat
up on the bus.
Would you have done the
same?
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1955: Montgomery Bus
Boycott.
1957: State of Arkansas
challenges the Federal
Government in regards
to “Little Rock Nine”,
which forces Pres.
Eisenhower to send the
National Guard to
escort black students to
school.
1960s
1961: Civil activists calling
themselves “Freedom
Riders” ride buses into
segregated terminals
throughout the South.
1963: A demonstration in
Alabama led by Martin
Luther King Jr. is broken
up by the police force,
who use violence to get
their point across
(clubs, fire hoses, and
dogs).
As a result of the Alabama police violence, Pres.
Kennedy is furious and introduces a new Civil
Rights Bill which outlaws segregation.
August, 1963: 100th anniversary of the
Proclamation of Emancipation. March on
Washington by 200, 000 demonstrators,
where King gives his now famous “I have a
dream…” speech.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEMXaTktUfA
1964: Martin Luther King
Jr. wins Nobel Peace
Prize.
July 2, 1964: The new Civil
Rights Act is passed (the
strongest passed since
reconstruction).
1965: “March for
Freedom” begins.
1965: Voting Rights Act is
passed, granting equal
voting rights to African Americans.
1968: Martin Luther King is assassinated.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gigsZH5
HlJA
1972: Congress approves Equal Rights
Amendment granting equal rights.
2008: Barack Obama is elected 44th president of
the United States.