Civil Rights Movement
(1950's-1960's)
Minority Movements
Feminist Movement
Rights for Women
Right to divorce
Birth Control
Equal Pay
Chicano Movement
Civil Rights for Mexican Americans
American Indian Movement
Took over Alcatraz Island
known as A.I.M.
movement treated as terrorism
Civil Rights Opponents
Strom Thurmond
Filibustered (delayed) Civil Rights Act
one of the longest filibuster
in history of U.S.
Senator from South Carolina
Orval Faubus
refused students in
Little Rock High School
Governor of Arkansas
Bull Connor
beat marchers in Selma, AL
Police Chief
Civil Rights Advocates
Montgomery bus boycot
Montgomery, AL
refused bus seat for white man
Thurgood Marshall
First Black Supreme Court Justice
Malcolm X
Murdered in Harlem, NY
aggressive MLK Jr.
"by any means necessary"
Civil and Voting Rights Laws
Civil Rights Act of 1968
Prevented discrimination
in housing/buildings
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Federal Government could intervene
banned literacy tests, poll taxes,
Grandfather clause etc.
Civil Rights Act of 1964
covered more than
just African Americans
outlawed segregation
Significant Events
Highlander Folk Park
School and training
for Civil Rights leaders
Monteagle, TN
Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
James Earl Ray
Arrested in England after his arrival
Assassinated outside of the
Lorraine Motel Memphis, TN 1968
Lorraine Motel now
the Civil Rights Hotel
Birmingham bombing of 1963
K.K.K. Black Church attack
four little girls killed
March on Washington, DC
MLK. Jr "I have A Dream"
Marches, demonstrations, boycotts, and sit-ins
Met with aggression and opposition
MLK Jr. lead these
Tent City in Fayette County, TN
Evicting for voting
Protesting government
Outside Memphis
Freedom Riders
violent mobs from opposition
riding in wrong sections
Protesting bus discrimination
Integration of Central High School
Little Rock, AR
President (Eisenhower) vs. Governor
Eisenhower sent 101st Air
Borne to let black students in
National Guard Came in
Governor Orval Faubus
refused integration
tried to desegregate
Integration of Clinton High School
Clinton, TN
blown up with dynamite
national guard came in
first school desegregated
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Major turning point
in Civil Rights
Lead by MLK Jr.
Rosa Parks
Brown v Board of Education
Impact
overturned Plessy vs. Ferguson
separate but equal laws
desegregated
Decision
9-0 unanimous vote
1954 court decision
