MS in the Postwar Period

• *Civil Rights are the basic rights of citizens, such as free speech and the right to vote, privacy, and property ownership.

Separate-but-equal concept

• *In 1896, the U.S. Supreme Court had issued a ruling in the Plessy v. Ferguson case that legally established this concept.

• *This concept allowed states to pass laws to segregate public facilities for blacks and whites.

The Crisis at Ole Miss

• *James Meredith was the 1st African American to be enrolled at the University of Mississippi.– It was long hard journey… This caused riots and

tons of chaos on campus. – *Things got so harsh, Mississippi National

Guardsman and twenty thousand federal troops were sent to Oxford.

The Civil Rights Movement

• Throughout the 1960’s, a number of organizations and individuals worked to end segregation and to register black Mississippians to vote. (NAACP, SNCC)

• *Tougaloo College faculty members and students conducted protests and sit-ins (demonstrations where people enter a public facility and refuse to leave) to desegregate the Jackson Public Library.

**Freedom Summer (1964)**

• *Over a thousand college students, most of them white, traveled to MS to conduct schools for black children and to help black citizens register to vote.

• When they were here, they lived in black homes.. Their presence made many white Mississippians angry.– By August, 4 people had died, 80 beaten, over a 1,000

arrested… Also, 67 Churches, homes, and businesses had been burned down or bombed.

Freedom Summer Continued…

• The most notable deaths that happened were those in Neshoba County.

• *Andrew Goodman, Michael Schwerner, and James Chaney… They were investigating a Church being burned. (They were arrested, released, then abducted and murdered.)

Who were dixiecrats???

Worker’s Compensation

• Why was worker’s comp. created, what does it do??….

• Does it still help workers today?……