PPT-African American Civil Rights Leaders

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. 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. . 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. Segregation. School Desegregation. The Montgomery Bus Boycott. Sit-Ins. Freedom Riders. Desegregating Southern Universities. The March on Washington. Voter Registration. The End of the Movement. The Movement. Background. Born in Lamar, MO (1884). MO a former slave state. Maternal and paternal grandparents had owned slaves. Ancestors supported the Confederacy. Moved to Independence (1890). Segregation and racism are prevalent. 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.”. Activists from the Civil Rights Movement. Martin Luther King Jr. was a . social . activist, who led the Civil Rights Movement in the United States from the mid-1950s until his death by assassination in . 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 . th. Century. Life After Reconstruction 1877-1940’s. The Civil Rights Movement 1950’s and 1960’s. Changes to the Constitution empower African Americans in the 1860s.. 13. th. Amendment ends slavery. 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 . 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. . 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…. Black culture and . African American literature. Do you know?. Jim Crow Law?. Segregation. Emancipation. Non violence action. Black English. African-American writers?. Becoming African American . New economic opportunities discovered by Christopher Columbus.. This institution is an equal opportunity provider.. Reason For Training: Ensures Civil Rights Are Protected . Ensures that program recipients are being treated without discrimination while participating in Child Nutrition Programs.