PPT-Civil Rights Timeline Early Movement:

Setting the Stage for the Modern Movement Abolitionist Groups Form 1775 Founding of the Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery PAS the worlds first antislavery society and the first Quaker antislavery society . 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.. 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.. 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 . 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. 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 . 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.. 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 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….