PPT-The Civil Rights Movement

Challenging Segregation The SitIn Movement In the fall of 1959 four African American college students at a Woolworths department store in Greensboro NC sat at a whites only counter and refused to leave until they were served. 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).. Thesis!!. The murder Of Emmit Till had a significant impact on Civil Rights Movement.. The murder Of Emmit Till had a significant impact on Civil Rights Movement.. Reasons. The murder enraged Blacks in the north and south.. Draw this chart in your notebooks. 24. th. Amendment. (1964). Civil Rights Act. of 1964. Voting Rights Act of 1965. 24. th. Amendment. Outlawed the poll tax. In several southern states there was still a poll tax meant to keep African Americans from voting. SSUSH21 The student will explain economic growth and its impact on the United States, 1945-1970. . b. . Describe the impact television has had on American culture; include the presidential debates (Kennedy/Nixon,1960) and news coverage of the Civil Rights Movement. . 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 . 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.. the Prize, Part . 2 . (55:00 for full movie; 32:00 to Ruby Bridges/Rockwell):. https://. www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNIwGhCMNII. . Alternate copy: . https://. www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSRSUp-nTZM. . Highlander Folk School . 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 . 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. . BILL CLINTON, 1993-2001. DOMESTIC POLICY. . *Cut Federal spending, raised taxes on wealthy. *Proposed health care reform; failed to pass. *CONTRACT WITH AMERICA—Newt Gingrich proposes. smaller government/ more responsible to people. 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.