The Civil Rights Movement: 1953 - 1969. Pre-Movement Conditions in the South Watch: “Never Lose...
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The Civil Rights Movement: 1953 - 1969
Transcript of The Civil Rights Movement: 1953 - 1969. Pre-Movement Conditions in the South Watch: “Never Lose...
The Civil Rights Movement: 1953 - 1969
Pre-Movement Conditions in the South
Watch: “Never Lose Sight of Freedom”
“Rights Denied,” “A Change is Gonna Come”
The Beginnings of the Movement
Why a Civil Rights Movement now?
Brown v. Board of Education, 1954
1955-1965
The Early Movement
The Role of Birmingham, Alabama
The Role of Churches Community Worship Support Black Businesses Meeting place for movement business
Leadership Fred Shuttlesworth – “we cannot brag for our success
because we are simply doing God’s will” James Abernathy
Montgomery Bus Boycott -1955
Rosa Parks refuses to leave her seat
Boycott begins
Carpool System
Emmett Till Case, 1955
Emergence of Martin Luther King
“Soul Force”
1957: Founds SCLC
Forms a partnership with Alabama leaders
September, 1957 – The Little Rock Nine
1960 – Sit Ins Begin
February: North Carolina
April: Formation of SNCC
1961: Freedom Rides
CORE formed
October 1961
James Meredith breaks the color barrier at Universities
1963: Birmingham
Demonstrations in Birmingham Begin
King in Jail
“Letter from a Birmingham Jail”
May 1963
Children’s Crusade in Birmingham
The Role of the Radio
The role of the church
June 11, 1963
Wallace at the University of Alabama
“I say segregation now! Segregation tomorrow! Segregation Forever!” ~ Alabama governor George Wallace, 1963
August 28, 1963: I Have a Dream!
September 15, 1963 Church Bombings
Freedom Summer - 1964
Intent was to help blacks register without fear of intimidation or unfair tests
Death of Civil Rights Workers in Philadelphia, Mississippi
Voter Registration as a Result of the Freedom Summer
1964: Bullets or Ballots?
Rise of Malcolm X
1965 – The March from Selma to Montgomery
February 1, 1965
March 7, 1965: Bloody Sunday
The Later Movement
1966: the fight for defacto segregation
1966: The Black Panther Movement Begins
Mexico City, 1968
Race Riots emerge in inner cities
1966: Black Power Emerges
1967: Thurgood Marshall
Legal cases pre-Supreme Court
Major Supreme Court decisions
1968: The Death of Martin Luther King, Jr.
March 1, 1968: Kerner Commission
Results of the Civil Rights Movement
See pg. 920 in text
Controversies over Civil Rights
Segregation was still the rule until the 1970s
Affirmative Action
Justice is Served
2001: Sixteenth Street Baptist Church Bombers Rearrested and tried
