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Do Now

1. Grab an iPad

2. Navigate to apushrevolution.weebly.com

3. Click “Assignments”4. Under “3/7: The Civil Rights Movement”,

follow the link to the Speed Matching

Game5. Play the game

6. Set up your notes

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Notes

3/7/2016The Civil Rights Movement (1950s  – 60s)

Key Terms:

• ideology: a system of ideas or beliefs, usually

the basis of a political theory or philosophy

• civil disobedience: refusing to comply with

certain laws as an act of peaceful protest

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 Announcements

• Benchmark Wednesday

• Review at tutorials – Tuesday, 4 to 5

• Quiz Tracker 

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Jim Crow

• Laws restricting Southern blacks’ rights after

reconstruction

 – Public segregation

 – Poll taxes, literacy requirements limited voting rights

• Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) – allowed segregation

& established “separate but equal” doctrine

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Civil Rights Organizations

• Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)

• National Urban League (NUL)

• National Association for the Advancement of

Colored People (NAACP)

• Organizations had successfully lobbied for anti-

discrimination executive orders from FDR &

Truman

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Brown v. Board

• Earl Warren – liberal Republican

appointed as Chief Justice of

Supreme Court by Eisenhower

(1953)• NAACP funded legal challenges to

segregation laws, led by lawyer

Thurgood Marshall

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Brown v. Board

• SCOTUS unanimously overturned

Plessy v. Ferguson – segregation is

inherently unequal (1954)

• Southern intransigence – – Massive resistance: Senator Byrd’s (VA)

plan closed schools instead of letting them

integrate

 – Little Rock Nine: Orval Faubus, governor of Arkansas, stopped integration of Little Rock

Central High School – integration protected

by federal troops sent by Eisenhower

 – Video

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Montgomery Bus Boycott

• Rosa Parks arrested for refusing to

give up her seat

• Black ministers organize the

Montgomery Improvement

 Association (MIA) and organize a

bus boycott

• Supreme Court agrees with Park’s

case – buses desegregated

• Black ministers, led by Martin

Luther King, Jr., organize Southern

Christian Leadership Conference

(1957) to continue fighting

segregation

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Sit-Ins

• 1960, spontaneous civil disobedience –

students in Greensboro, North Carolina

asked to be served at Woolworth’s whites-

only lunch counter 

• Hundreds participate in sit-ins across the

country

• Woolworth’s desegregates lunch counters

• Video: “The Butler”

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March on Washington

• 1961 – CORE organizes “freedom rides” –

whites and blacks riding buses together across

South – hundreds arrested and/or beaten

• 1963, King jailed while leading campaign fordesegregation in Birmingham, Alabama

• 1963, 200,000 March on Washington

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Mexican-Americans

• League of United Latin American Citizens

(LULAC) and GI Forum form to fight for

civil rights for hispanics

• Hernandez v. Texas (1954) – SCOTUS

rules Mexicans and other racial groups are

protected classes under the 14th

amendment