The Spread of the Civil Rights Movement
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The Spread of the Civil Rights Movement
11.10.5 Summarize the diffusion (spread) of the civil rights movement in the rural South and the urban North
Rapid Review
• Discuss MLK’s strategy to obtain civil rights• Black Muslims supported this leader. Who?• How did Malcom X’s views change after going to
Mecca?• How did Thurgood Marshalll contribute to the civil
rights movement?• Explain the significance of Rosa Parks’s actions• How did the Black Panthers differ from any other
group?
Examine the following pictures…• What stands out to you? Why do you think
students were willing to fight for equality?
How do you think these groups differ from the previous ones?
SCLC• Churches served as community
centers since the end of Civil War– Church leaders= community leaders– MLK
• After the Montgomery bus boycott, King formed the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)– “to carry on nonviolent crusades
against the evils of second-class citizenship.”
• SCLC planned protests and demonstrations around the South
• Faced fierce resistance from KKK and even police
• How did the SCLC contribute to the Civil Rights movement?
SCLC• SCLC used churches as
its base to:– Protest – Demonstrations– Marches
• Opponents of Civil Rights often targeted churches
SNCC• Ella Baker (a member of the SCLC) helped form
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee – SNCC (“snick) – made up of college students
Sit-Ins• SNCC paid students $10/week salary• Organized voter registration in the South• Sit-Ins– Protesters sat down at segregated lunch counters until
served– Police was called. Whites beat and poured food over
students who refused to strike back.– TV coverage sparked many other sit-ins across the South
Little Rock Nine (9)• Brown v. Board of Education
– Ended segregation• Resistance to desegregation
– Governor of Arkansas refused to desegregate • Ordered the National Guard to turn away black high school students in Little Rock
• 9 AA students voluntarily integrated to Little Rock Central High • Eisenhower ordered troops to help them attend• Students were allowed but were harassed in school by some whites• Pair Share: Would you have the courage to do this?
Television• Birmingham, Alabama most segregated
city in U.S.• MLK and the SCLC used nonviolence to
integrate city.• Protests continued for 1 month• Television showed: – police attacking protesters.– Used dogs and fire hoses– Protests– Economic boycotts – Negative media coverage
• Convinced leaders in Birmingham to accept changes
• Describe the impact of television during the CR movement.
Latinos fight for civil rights
• Cesar Chavez organized the Hispanic farm workers in California
• Used nonviolent protest to get better pay and conditions
• Founded UFWOC with Dolores Huerta• Convince supermarkets and shoppers
to boycott grapes• Chavez went to a three week fast
The American Indian Movement • Native American poorest among
minority groups– Suffered from alcoholism and
tuberculosis– Death rate among infants nearly
twice the national average• AIM formed in 1968• Confronted the government over
rights of Native American tribes• Used the court system to gain
restoration of land in several states
Japanese Americans
• Pushed for reparations from the internment during World War II
• Congress provided payments in 1965 & 1990
Rapid Review
• How did minorities cope (deal) with inequalities?
• Who were the SNCC? How did they contribute to the civil rights movement?
• What were some of the actions of the SCLC?• Analyze (break apart) the importance of the
Little Rock Nine.• What were the goals of the UFWOC?