PPT-Leaders Of The Civil Rights Movement

Ben C Horace Greeley High School Ms Pojer American History AP Essential Question What were the goals and tactics of the different leaders of the Civil Rights movement Jackie Robinson Born in Cairo Georgia in 1919. 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).. A Look at the Deaths of Civil Rights . Heroes. Lightning Round Review. Who . was Martin Luther King Jr.? . 2. What was the Civil Rights Act of 1964. ?. 3. What was the Voting Rights Act of 1965. ?. 4. What was Brown vs. Board . By the end of the class period students should be able to define Non-Violent protest and Civil Disobedience and reference groups and leaders that implemented these ideas.. Do you remember Henry David Thoreau?. 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 . Chapter 28: The Civil Rights Movement. MAIN IDEA: In the mid-1900s, the civil rights movement began to make major progress in correcting the national problem of racial segregation.. Chapter 28 . Section . 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 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. 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….