PPT-Civil Rights Movement The goals of the civil rights movement.

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. 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. . 4. In honor of Black history month-February 2013. Lesson Objective. Students will be able to . describe how their historical figure performed actions during the Civil Rights . Movement. . (circa 1950-1970).. Joan . Lingard. Evaluations – How? When?. Novel Discussion: March 31. st. (until . C. h. . 11, pg 88. ). Novel Test: Tuesday, April 14. th. . (. entire book). Setting . When. ?. 1970s. Culture and Significant Events in the United States. Moving on from the 50’s…. Age of Youth: baby boomers became teenagers. Movement away from the conservatism of the 1950’s.. Not content with the life of the previous generation, CHANGE was desired!. 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.. 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?. In 1954, the Civil Rights movement began with the Brown v BOE decision, but the rest of American society remained segregated:. The NAACP showed that the . 14. th. Amendment could be used to challenge segregation. What was the Civil Rights Movement?. civil rights movement. The . civil. rights . movement. can be defined as a mass popular . movement. to secure for African Americans equal access to and opportunities for the basic privileges and rights of U.S. citizenship. Although the roots of the . 1950-1975. Red Scare, Mass Culture, Civil Rights and Social Movements. The Red Scare . ‘Round Two’. Background information: . Influenced by the First Red Scare (1917-20). Communist party in the US grows (peak of about 75,000 in 1940-41). The rights of citizens to political and social freedom and equality. The “Civil Rights Movement” we know…. Montgomery Bus Boycott-1955. Montgomery Alabama. Rosa Parks, Dr. King. Lunch Counter Sit- Ins-1960. Challenging Segregation . The Sit-In Movement . In the fall of 1959, four African American college students at a . Woolworth’s department store in Greensboro, NC . sat at a “white’s only” counter and refused to leave until they were served.. 1954-1975. 15.1. Origins of the Civil Rights Movement. Rosa Parks is fingerprinted by Dep. Sheriff D.H. Lackey in Montgomery, Ala., on Feb. 22, 1956, two months after she refused to give up her seat on a bus for a white passenger. Her action prompted the Montgomery bus boycott and sparked the civil rights movement.. THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT WOMEN’S RIGHTS, NAACP TO THE 1960’S THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENTS The women’s rights movement in the 1800’s laid the foundation for minority rights. The Civil War Amendments (pushed for by Frederick Douglas) passed by Abe Lincoln were the cornerstones. 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….