History of the Civil Rights Movement

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HISTORY OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT MacCarthy

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HISTORY OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT

MacCarthy

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Essential Questions What court cases and laws effected the

Civil Rights movement before 1954?Create a bubble map to describe these

issues

How did desegregation play a role during the Civil Rights movement before 1954?Create a Tree map listing examples of

desegregation

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Early on Why did many African Americans come to

America? Slavery

Great Awakening-Religious Movement All people are equal

Enlightenment-Knowledge and Reason All people have Natural Rights

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Early on Many people doubted the idea of slavery

Slavery began to go away across the world

Except in the South of the US

Why?

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The South Agricultural Economy

The Cotton Gin

Dred Scott v. Sandford

Slaves=Property

Brainpop

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Civil War Slavery one of many issues

Emancipation Proclamation, what did it do?

13th Amendment Bans Slavery

14th Amendment Citizenship for anyone born in the US

15th Amendment Right to vote for all citizens

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Afterwards

So was everything good then?

Did everyone have equal Rights?

What other problems do you remember?

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Afterwards KKK and other hate groups

Jim Crow Laws Laws created to separate blacks and whites in

public spaceshttp://www.nps.gov/malu/forteachers/jim_crow_laws.htm

Plessy v. Ferguson “Separate but Equal”

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Times Changing 19th Amendment

Women’s Right to Vote

Ideas of Segregation changing

WWII, what changed? Tuskegee Airmen No racial discrimination in hiring for

government jobs

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Times Changing Minorities moving to major cities during &

after WWII

Truman attacks Civil Rights: Ends racial discrimination and segregation

in the Armed Forces Tries to end poll taxes Make anti-lynching laws

Jackie Robinson: Brainpop

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Essential Questions

What court cases and laws effected the Civil Rights movement before 1954?

How did desegregation play a role during the Civil Rights movement before 1954?