The American Civil Rights Movement
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Transcript of The American Civil Rights Movement
The American Civil Rights Movement
MacCarthy
Questions•Q1 What are the differences and similarities between Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X?• Create a Top Hat Chart to show similarities and differences between King and X
•Q2 Who are the key people, groups, events, and legal actions that impacted the civil rights movement?• Create a thinking map to categorize people/groups, events, and legal actions
Beginning• Brown v. Board of Education• Separate but Equal
unconstitutional
• Montgomery Bus Boycott• African Americans united• Martin Luther King Jr.• SCLC created
Beginning• Central High School in Arkansas• Little Rock Nine• Eisenhower takes action
• Segregated Lunch Counters in the South• Nonviolent protests• SNCC created
Power of the Media• Kennedy supports MLK and
becomes president• Support Civil Rights issues• Afraid of upsetting Southern
Democrats
• CORE pressures the issue• Freedom Rides• Kennedy sends help
Power of the Media• SCLC wants to press the issue
• Bull Connor
• King arrested
• Letter from a Birmingham Jail
• Children
Power of the Media• March on Washington
• Kennedy promises to support
• Kennedy assassinated• http://
www.history.com/topics/us-presidents/john-f-kennedy/videos/world-mourns-john-f-kennedy
• Johnson uses the memory of Kennedy to push for civil rights
Power of Media• Freedom summer in Mississippi• College students• Two murdered
• Selma• State troopers
• Voting Rights Act passed
Divides• King and SCLC address poverty
and equality
• Race Riots in Chicago
• King assassinated• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6
mxL2cqxrA
• Riots across the US
Divisions• SNCC• Black Power
• Nation of Islam• Separation of races• Malcolm X• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhg6LxyTnY8