PPT-Birth of the Modern Civil Rights Movement

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. 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).. Salt March or . Dandi. March from . 12. th. March 1930 to 6. th. April 1930 . starting from . Sabarmati Ashram . to . Dandi. . on the Gujarat coast. In . Dandi. salt was made by the Indians from the sea by boiling the sea water.. 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.”. 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.. Postwar Prosperity?. Suburban boom bypasses ethnic minorities. GI Bill Benefits. Subsidies for education and housing, job training. Structure and enforcement exclude minorities. FHA and red lining. Chocolate Cities, Vanilla Suburbs. 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. 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.. chapter overview: after decades of discrimination,  African Americans begin a struggle for equality. they make gains against unfair laws in the south, but as movement reaches northern cities, gains are fewer. . January 8, 2018. Mission of FNS Civil Rights Division. To provide leadership for comprehensive protection against discrimination in employment practices and delivery of programs to the public.  Our goal is to ensure that applicants and individuals who are eligible to participate in our programs are treated fairly and equitably, with dignity and respect.. 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 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….