THE CIVIL RIGHTS THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENTMOVEMENT

Problems It AddressedProblems It Addressed

Addressed problems facing African Addressed problems facing African Americans likeAmericans like Racial SegregationRacial Segregation DisfranchisementDisfranchisement Economic OppressionEconomic Oppression ViolenceViolence

Goals of the MovementGoals of the Movement

Improve the lives of African Improve the lives of African Americans and achieve equalityAmericans and achieve equality

First focused on attaining equal First focused on attaining equal rights through desegregation and the rights through desegregation and the passage of civil rights lawspassage of civil rights laws

Some will later seek black self-Some will later seek black self-sufficiency, end of police brutality, sufficiency, end of police brutality, spiritual improvement, and equal spiritual improvement, and equal economic opportunitieseconomic opportunities

Influences on the MovementInfluences on the Movement

Progressivism and Niagara Progressivism and Niagara MovementMovement

Great MigrationGreat Migration World War IIWorld War II Anticolonialism/Independence Anticolonialism/Independence

movementsmovements Pan-AfricanismPan-Africanism

Important Events in the Important Events in the Civil Rights MovementCivil Rights Movement

What impact did each event What impact did each event have on achieving equality?have on achieving equality?

NAACP Formed (1909)

A. Philip Randolph Threatens A. Philip Randolph Threatens March on Washington (1941)March on Washington (1941)

Congress on Racial Equality Congress on Racial Equality (CORE) Formed (1942)(CORE) Formed (1942)

Double V Campaign (1942-Double V Campaign (1942-1945)1945)

Desegregation of Armed Forces and End to Discrimination in

Federal Hiring (1948)

Morgan v. VirginiaMorgan v. Virginia (1946) and (1946) and Sweatt v. PainterSweatt v. Painter (1950) (1950)

Brown v. Board of Ed. (1954) Brown v. Board of Ed. (1954) and and Brown II Brown II (1955)(1955)

Death of Emmett Till (1955)Death of Emmett Till (1955)

Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955)Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955)

Desegregation of Central High Desegregation of Central High School in Little Rock (1957)School in Little Rock (1957)

Civil Rights Act of 1957Civil Rights Act of 1957

Southern Christian Leadership Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) Formed (1957)Conference (SCLC) Formed (1957)

Woolworth’s Sit-ins and Woolworth’s Sit-ins and Formation of SNCC (1960)Formation of SNCC (1960)

Freedom Rides (1961)Freedom Rides (1961)

Desegregation of Ole Miss (1962)Desegregation of Ole Miss (1962)

Birmingham Campaign and the Birmingham Campaign and the Children’s March (1963)Children’s March (1963)

March on Washington (1963)March on Washington (1963)

Civil Rights Act of 1964Civil Rights Act of 1964

Freedom Summer (1964)Freedom Summer (1964)

MFDP Sends Delegates to 1964 MFDP Sends Delegates to 1964 Democratic Convention (1964)Democratic Convention (1964)

Assassination of Malcolm X (1965)Assassination of Malcolm X (1965)

Selma Campaign (1965)Selma Campaign (1965)

Voting Rights Act of 1965Voting Rights Act of 1965

Black Panther Party Formed Black Panther Party Formed (1966)(1966)

SNCC and CORE Expel White Members (1966)

METCO formed (1966)METCO formed (1966)

Watts, Newark, and Detroit Watts, Newark, and Detroit Riots (1965-67)Riots (1965-67)

First Black Supreme Court First Black Supreme Court Justice (1967)Justice (1967)

Poor People’s Campaign (1968)Poor People’s Campaign (1968)

Assassination of MLK and RFK Assassination of MLK and RFK (1968)(1968)

Civil Rights Act of 1968Civil Rights Act of 1968

Kerner Commission and Kerner Commission and Moynihan Report (1968)Moynihan Report (1968)

Attica Prison Riot (1971)

Boston Busing Crisis (1971)Boston Busing Crisis (1971)

Maynard Jackson Elected Mayor of Atlanta and Coleman Young

Elected Mayor of Detroit (1974)

Regents of the University of California v. Bakke (1978)

Jesse Jackson Runs for President (1984)

Million Man March (1995)Million Man March (1995)

Bollinger Cases (2003)

Barak Obama Elected as President (2008)