“An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.” –Gandhi
“You are never strong enough that you don't need help.” –Cesar Chavez
“The fight is never about grapes or lettuce. It is always about people.” -Cesar Chavez
“In some cases non-violence requires more militancy than violence.” -Cesar Chavez
“A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.” -Malcolm X
“Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.”
-Malcom X
“Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.” -Malcolm X
“I'm tired of being treated like a second-class citizen.” -Rosa Parks
Warm up 4/28/15
• Look at the map on p. 909. What was the law for AZ? What color did all the states become after 1954?
• There will be a quiz Thursday over the Civil Rights Acts on the brown wkst
Major Civil Rights Reform
• Complete the organizer about the Civil Rights.
• Answer all parts of each question.
• Due at the beginning of class tomorrow – put in your notebook
4/29/15 warm up is AVID work• Put a #1 in the box of Brown v Board of Ed• Draw a picture to show the effect of B v B of Ed• Put a #2 in the Civil Rights Act of 1964• In #5, find “Malcolm X” and put a box around his
name. If you didn’t write about him, add his name somewhere in #5
• Circle NAACP in the “Fighting Segregation” column• Under the “I Have A Dream” question, write “GOAL
OF SPEECH – CHANGE FEDERAL LAWS”
group work
• you need a group of 4
• pick up a poster board & envelope of orange strips
• using the book & your prior knowledge, place the details under the correct heading
• do NOT glue or tape them on
confirm accurate facts• Brown v Board of Education
– Thurgood Marshall, Kansas, lower court ruled segregation was ok, neighborhood school, Chief Justice Earl Warren
• Sit ins– 1960 throughout South, refused to leave stores, well behaved
protestors
• Freedom rides– 1960 South Carolina, bus facilities …, not enforced, violence,
SNCC, CORE
• Little Rock 9– Arkansas, 1957, students were threatened & harassed, Governor
ordered National Guard to keep African Americans out
• Montgomery Bus Boycott– blacks had to ride in the back, Rosa Parks, Alabama, NAACP did
1 day strike, lasted 381 days, 1955,
group work• get cup of green strips
• using the book & your prior knowledge, place the details under the correct heading THINK
• do NOT glue or tape them on
• bonus points for groups that get the facts right on your own
• fold brown paper, transfer all information onto your own paper
• write summary in space provided
• glue into notebook
confirm accurate facts• Brown v Board of Education
– Chief Justice Earl Warren, overturned Plessy v Ferguson, separate but equal unconstitutional
• Sit ins– businesses changed, violence by whites, spread
• Freedom rides– Robert F. Kennedy sent in federal marshals, 1961 new laws,
violence
• Little Rock 9– showed how strong racism was, Pres. Eisenhower sent troops
to protect students
• Montgomery Bus Boycott– bus company & others lost $$, MLK, 1956 ruling that bus
segregation was unconstitutional
Warm up is a quiz. Quickly review your brown organizer notesheet. Tape it into your notebook while
you are at it!
• Notebooks are due Friday beginning of class, or today if you are ready!
“In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” -MLK
"If man hasn’t discovered something that he will die for, he isn’t fit to live.” -MLK
Civil Rights MovementCivil Rights Movement
Early Civil Rights Early Civil Rights MovementMovement
• Abolitionist Movement• After Reconstruction
– Segregation was LEGAL• Jim Crow Laws• Plessy v. FergusonPlessy v. Ferguson
– “Separate but equal”
• NAACP founded in 1909– W.E.B. Du Bois
• 1942 CORECORE founded– Congress on Racial
Equality
Truman YearsTruman Years• 1947
– Jackie Robinson • 1st African American
on MLB team
• 1948– military became
desegregated
Brown v. Board of Education of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, KansasTopeka, Kansas
1954
• Challenged “separate but equal” laws
• Supreme Court declared segregated schools UNCONSTITUTIONAL
Chief Justice Earl WarrenChief Justice Earl Warren“We conclude that in the field of
public education the doctrine of ‘separate but equal’ has no place. Separate educational
facilities are inherently unequal…Such segregation is a denial of the equal protection of
the laws.”
***What is the impact of this court decision on our country? Write it on the brown paper.
The Little Rock NineThe Little Rock Nine1957
• Arkansas Governor Faubus violated a federal court order to integrate the schools– Central High School,
Little Rock, Arkansas– ordered National Guard
to keep out 9 African American students
• Pres. Eisenhower sent federal troops to protect the 9 students***What is the impact of this event on our
country? Write it on the brown paper.
Montgomery Bus BoycottsMontgomery Bus Boycotts1955• Rosa Parks
– refused to give up seat– arrested
• NAACP called for boycott– Martin Luther King Jr.
• success of boycotts made King a national civil rights leader
• 1956 Supreme Court ruled segregated buses illegal
***What is the impact of this boycott on our country? Write it on the brown paper.
SCLCSCLC(nothing to write here, just read)(nothing to write here, just read)
1957
• Southern Christian Leadership Conference– organized nonviolent
protests– Martin Luther King Jr.
elected leader• “We shall so appeal to
your heart and conscience that we will win you in the process.”
What will his methods be?
Sit-in MovementSit-in Movement
• Greensboro, North Carolina– 4 college students– staged Sit-in– owner gave in after 6
months & let them sit there
– led to SNCC• Student Nonviolent
Coordinating Committee
“With their very bodies they obstructed the wheels of injustice.”
-Civil Rights Leader James Farmer
How did these sit- ins affect
our country?
Freedom RidesFreedom Rides• 1960 Supreme Court
ordered that bus station facilities be open to all passengers
• CORE sent Freedom Riders on bus trips– May 14 Anniston, Alabama
– bus firebombed
• Pres. Kennedy stepped in to protect Riders when Alabama officials wouldn’t
Freedom RidersFreedom Riders
***What is the impact of this event on our country? Write it on the brown paper.
Birmingham, AlabamaBirmingham, Alabama
• Strict enforcement of segregation
• King used sit-ins & marches
• protestors arrested• “Letter from a
Birmingham Jail”
Birmingham Campaign OutcomeBirmingham Campaign Outcome
• King’s demands met– federal gov. helped
• Bombings (churches)• Pres. Kennedy sent
troops to restore order
March on WashingtonMarch on Washington
• August 28, 1963• more than 200,000
marched on D.C.– Jobs & Freedom
• MLK– “I Have a Dream”
speech
Civil Rights ActCivil Rights Act
• July 2, 1964• Signed by Pres.
Johnson• Banned discrimination
in employment and in public accommodations
Voting RightsVoting Rights• 24th Amendment
– banned states from taxing citizens to vote
Voting Rights Act of Voting Rights Act of 19651965
• Passed by Pres. Johnson
• Couldn’t deny right to vote base on color or race
• Banned literacy tests
Don’t have to
prove you can read or write
Race RiotsRace Riots• Watts, Los Angeles 1965
• Detroit 1967
“Black Power”
• Tensions between groups– SNCC vs. King– Stokely Carmichael
1966 formed Black Power
Gold Medalist Tommie Smith and Bronze medalist John Carlos showing the raised fist on the
podium after the 200m in the 1968 Summer Olympics
“Black Power”
• Black Panthers
• Oakland, CA in 1966
• Huey Newton & Bobby Seale
“You can be filled with bitterness and with hatred and a desire for revenge. We can move in that
direction as a country, in great polarization, black people amongst blacks and white people
amongst whites, filled with hatred toward one another. Or we can make an effort, like Martin
Luther King did, to understand and to comprehend, and replace that violence, that
stain of bloodshed that has spread across the land, with . . . compassion and love.”
-Robert Kennedy, April 4 1968
(assassinated June 1968)
What is happening in Baltimore this past week?
Warm up 5/5/15
• Read the section about the counterculture on p. 1004-1005 and answer the reading check question.
Life Changed in America After WWII
In addition to the changes the Civil Rights movement caused, these changes happened too
*Increase in Educational Opportunities
1. GI Bill – college $ for WWII vets
2. Title IX – equal opportunity for women to attend college
• Popular Culture
1. conformity or counter-culture
2. mass media: tv, radio, rock and roll,
sports, Jackie Robinson
*Great Society – Pres. Johnson (LBJ)1. Pres. Johnson’s plan to help the poor2. War on poverty – provide jobs & education3. medicare & medicaid
people moved to the suburbs, baby boom
summary:
Court Cases that contributed to the US changing
• Brown v Board of Education • Miranda v Arizona • Gideon v Wainwright • Reynolds v Sims• NY Times Co v Sullivan• Roe v Wade• Chief Justice Earl Warren was the head of the
Supreme Court for all of them except Roe v Wade
The Civil Rights Movement motivated women to fight for their civil rights
Why were women dissatisfied in the 1950’s & 1960’s? p. 987-988
What is NOW?
What are their goals?
How did they try to achieve their goals?
Betty Friedan (p. 988) Why was she fired? _________________________________________
Book she wrote ___________________________________________
Reforms she wanted: ______________________________________________________________
1st President of ________________
What is the ERA?
It was passed by Congress but by 1982 it was ________
states short. It
___________________________________.
Why did some people oppose it?
List 3 positive effects of the women’s rights movement. (chart p. 987, p. 990)
Why did the movement lose momentum and energy in the late 1970’s?
warm up 5/6/15
Look at the list of activists on p. 998 – 999.
Choose 2 to summarize
Read the Chavez articleComplete the questions
fold & glue into your notebook
happening
after the
warm up
• # the paragraphs
• Circle vocabulary words
Cesar Chavez
• read 994 & 996 about his activities
• make this chart for during Thursday’s video
Grievances Victories
Thursday• No warm up today. During the video,
complete the chart you made yesterday.
Grievances Victories
AssassinationsMalcolm X – Nation of Islam leaderborn Malcolm Littlebecame part of Nation of Islam & led as 2nd in command, very popularargued for separate country for blacks, black supremacy, segregationviolence for self-defense is finepowerful speaker, inspired Cassius Clay to convert to Islam = Muhammad Alitraveled to Africa & the Middle Eastconverted to Sunni Muslim & left the Nation of Islam1964 – against racism & became willing to work with civil rights leadersShot in Feb. 1965 by Nation of Islam members: some argued it was jealousy by the leader
Pres. John F. Kennedy – JFKUS president 1960 – 1963stand off with USSR over
missiles in Cubakilled during a campaign trip to
Dallas, Texas while riding with
his wife, Nov. 1963Lee Harvey Oswald was
arrested for the shootingHe was killed 2 days later by
Jack Rubymystery still surrounds JFK’s deathdid it involve Cubans, USSR, the mob, 1 shooter, 2 shooters??
Martin Luther King Jr -MLK Baptist minister father of 4 children preached non-violence killed while in Memphis, TN
supporting striking trash collectors April 1968
riots in over 100 cities after his death
James Earl Ray arrested 2 months later but King’s family doubted his guilt his whole life
last speech “I’ve been to the Mountaintop”
Robert F. Kennedy – RFKyounger brother of JFKcampaigning for Pres.shot in LA, June 1968shot by Sirhan Sirhan
serving life in prison
RFK had promised Israel that if he was elected president, he would send 50 fighter jets to help their fight with Palestine
summary
• Why were these men assassinated?
they were powerfulpeople didn’t agree with their beliefsbring notoriety to the shooter