Civil Rights Movement (1950's-1960's)

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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