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. Rosa Parks. Refused to give up her seat on the bus for a white person and was arrested, her actions led to several bus boycotts. Thurgood. Marshall. Lawyer who believed biggest change for civil rights was through the law; work on Brown vs. BOE; first black man into the supreme court. 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.. Congress Passes the Civil Rights Act of 1964. On September 15, 1963, less than three weeks after the march, a bomb exploded in the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in . Birmingham. The church had been the SCLC’s headquarters earlier that spring. st. 1960 - Greensboro, N.C.. Four black students from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College begin a . sit-in. at a segregated Woolworth's lunch counter. Although they are refused service, they are allowed to stay at the counter. The event triggers many similar non-violent protests throughout the South. Six months later the original four protesters are served lunch at the same Woolworth's counter. Student sit-ins would be effective throughout the Deep South in integrating parks, swimming pools (swim-ins!), theatres, libraries, and other public facilities.. 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.. 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.. 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. . 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. 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.” –. Chapter 27 . Shoutouts to: Ms. Willet’s class from NC - teacher of the year, Ms. McFarland’s class in Washington, and Mrs. Smith’s class from McKinney, TX. The Emerging Civil Rights Struggle, 1941 - 1957. 1960-1968. Introduction. Complacent and comfortable as the 1950s closed, Americans elected in 1960 a young, vigorous president who pledged “to get the country moving again.”. The 1960s would bring a sexual revolution, a civil rights revolution, the emergence of a “youth culture,” a devastating war in Vietnam, and the beginnings, at least, of a feminist revolution.. - The goals were to:. desegregate schools, restaurants, buses and other public accommodations . to freely exercise the right to vote; . and to win protection against intimidation, harassment and violence — in general, to gain full and equal rights for African Americans. v. Board of Education . (1954. ). Alive!. p. 574. Also . read p. 568. Plessy. v. Ferguson . (1896). p. . . 580-581. School Desegregation. What . is segregation?. . . Rosa Parks & Montgomery Bus Boycott. 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….