PPT-Black Power As the civil rights

movement grew many African Americans questioned the effectiveness of non violence Others began to question the desirability of integration altogether Adopting a slogan of Black Power. By . Sarah . Lyczkowski. Overview of the Police’s involvement during the CRM. The police had a big responsibility during the Civil Rights Movement. Many people wanted segregation and when it came to activists fighting for equality and leading marches, the police were the ones who responded to protests. Many of the police officers responded violently and used excessive force but some would try a nonviolent approach. Some policemen would arrest activists in order to avoid violence. . The living constitution. Supreme court justice frankfurter. “It . is a fair summary of constitutional history that the landmarks of our liberties have often been forged in cases . involving not very nice people.”. Examine the roles of civil rights advocates . Lesson Objective. Examine the roles of civil rights . advocates . including the significance of Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, . Thurgood. Marshall, Rosa Parks, and Philip Randolph.. Martin Luther King Jr.. It wasn't just that Martin Luther King became the leader of the civil rights movement that made him so extraordinary—it was the . way. in which he led the movement. King advocated civil disobedience, the non-violent resistance against unjust laws: "Non-violence is a powerful and just weapon which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it." Civil rights activists organized demonstrations, marches, boycotts, strikes, and voter-registration drives, and refused to obey laws that they knew were wrong and unjust.. Litigation . (court cases – i.e. Brown v. Board of Ed.). Boycotts . (Montgomery Bus boycott after the arrest of Rosa Parks). Blacks walked and carpooled to work for over a year until they reversed the segregation laws on Public Buses.. Meredith Orr. Kaitlyn Tharp. Period 6. Civil Liberties. Personal liberties and freedoms that people are born with and the government cannot restrict. . Civil liberties are protected by the United State’s Constitution and the Bill of Rights. The goal . . .. to obtain for African Americans equal access to and opportunities for the basic privileges and rights of U.S. citizenship. Jim Crow Laws. In the South, governments had passed segregation (racial separation) laws (aka ‘Jim Crow laws’) which permitted discrimination against Blacks. . 11.10.5 . Summarize the . diffusion . (spread) of the civil rights movement in the rural South and the urban North. Rapid Review. Discuss . MLK’s. strategy to obtain civil rights. Black Muslims supported this leader. Who?. Unit . 8. Many people / groups had fought for equal civil rights since the Civil War. Was never focal / lead issue. New and Fair Deal “urban” programs considered failures by end of 1950s. Public housing proved a grave disappointment in helping achieve equality. Civil Rights Training. Civil Rights Regulations are intended to assure that benefits of Child Nutrition Programs are made available to all eligible people in a non-discriminatory manner.. Why? . Why?. Rights . Feud . Civil Rights . Feud . Civil Rights Feud . . . . . Civil Rights Feud . . Civil Rights . Feud . Civil Rights Feud . . Civil Rights Feud . . . . Civil Rights. Q and A . Double Victory. Victory at home and abroad!. “This is a particularly good time to campaign against the evils of bigotry, prejudice, and race hatred because we have witnessed the defeat of enemies who tried to found a mastery of the world upon such cruel and fallacious policy.” –. The Need For Change. - The white race deems itself to be the dominant race in this country…But in the view of the Constitution, in the eye of the law, there is in this country no superior, dominant ruling class of citizens…Our Constitution is color blind…In respect of civil rights, all citizens are equal before the law…. Setting the Stage for the Modern Movement. Abolitionist Groups Form. 1775. Founding of the Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery (PAS), the world's first antislavery society and the first Quaker anti-slavery society. .