1. State Standards 9.7, 9.8, and 9.10

2. Civil Rights Movement
 Goal
 End Segregation in the
South by staging various
protests
 Three Leaders
1. Martin Luther King Jr
2. Malcom X
3. Stokely Carmichael

3.  Malcom X  Martin Luther King JR
 Pushed to end  Pushed to end
segregation segregation
 Father killed by white  Father was a Baptist
supremacist preacher
 Taught black supremacy  Taught passive
 Violence resistance
 Later he changes his  Nonviolence
mind and supports MLK  Followed Ghandi’s
teachings
 Assassinated 1965
 Assassinated 1968

4. Stokely Carmichael
 Coined the phrase “Black
Power”
 Leader of the Black
Panther Party
 Viewed the draft for
Vietnam as racist

5. School Desegregates
 Plessy v. Ferguson
 Court Case
 Established the
principle of “separate
but equal”

6. School Desegregates.
 1st Victory for Movement
 Brown v. Board of
Education
 Supreme Court rules to
end segregation in schools
 Albert Gore Sr.
 Tennessee Senator who
was for desegregation
 2 Famous Schools
1. Clinton, Tennessee
2. Little Rock, Arkansas

7. School Desegregates..
 Clinton, Tennessee
 1956
 Clinton 12
 12 African Americans
enroll in all-white school
 John Casper
 White supremacist
 Leads Protestors
 Beating of Clinton 12
bodyguard and school
bombings

8. School Desegregates...
 Little Rock, Arkansas
 Little Rock 9
 9 African Americans who
attend the High School
 National Guard sent to
force desegregation
 Escorted students from
class to class

10. Fighting Segregation
 Diane Nash
 Organizes lunch
counter sit-ins in
Nashville
 Rosa Parks
 Arrested for refusing to
move to the back of the
bus
 Leads to bus boycott
 Boycott leads to
desegregation of the
bus system

12. Fighting Segregation.
 Birmingham Alabama
 Location of most violence
in the Civil Rights
movement
 MLK stages a campaign for
desegregation here
 Sit ins, kneel ins, and
boycotts
 Fill the jails through passive
resistance
 George Wallace
 Governor of Alabama who
opposed desegregation

14. Fighting Segregation..
 Eugene “Bull” Connor
 Birmingham
Commissioner of Public
Safety
 Ordered fire hoses and
attack dogs to be used
to stop MLK
 Americans change their
minds
 Results in Birmingham
being desegregated

15. March on Washington
 “I have a dream”
 Famous speech calling for
equality
 Leads to Two Political Acts
1. Civil Rights Act of 1964
 Ends legal discrimination
based on race
2. Voting Rights Act of 1965
 Allowed African Americans
to vote
 Strom Thurman
 Racist Senator who tried
to stop the Civil Rights Act
(Filibuster)

16. Landmark Cases
 Gideon vs. Wainwright
(1963)
 Gideon arrested for
robbing a poolroom
 Can’t afford attorney, asks
for one
 Request denied
 Establishes your right to
an attorney

17. Landmark Cases.
 Miranda vs. Arizona
(1963)
 Miranda commits a
violent crime
 Never informed of right to
refuse to answer questions
and the right to an
attorney
 Miranda Warning, “You
have the right to remain
silent…”

18. Kennedy Assassination
 John F. Kennedy
 November 22, 1963, Dallas,
Texas
 Kennedy shot in his car
while he rides through the
streets
 Lee Harvey Oswald accused
of assassination
 Shot two days later by Jack
Ruby
 Huge conspiracy
 Grassy Knoll
 Bay of Pigs
 Mob

22. The Family Guy Version of Lee Harvey Oswald’s Death

23. Great Society
 Lyndon B Johnson
 President after Kennedy
 The Great Society
 Helping below the poverty
line
1. Head Start
 Free preschool
2. Medicaid
 Medical care for people
3. Medicare
 Medical care for old people

24. Continued Upheaval
 April 4, 1968
 Lorraine Motel
 MLK Shot in Memphis
 By James Earl Ray
 King is buried in Atlanta,
Georgia

26. Women’s Movement
 Inspired by the Civil
Rights movement
 Two Waves of Feminism
1. First wave of
“feminism”
 Process of women
achieving the right to vote
2. Second wave of
“feminism”
 Gaining equality for
women

27. Women’s Movement.
 Betty Friedan
 The Feminine Mystique
 More to life than marriage
and children
 National Organization for
Women (NOW)
 End the discrimination of
women in the workplace
 Gloria Steinem
 Founder of Ms. Magazine
 Key voice of women’s
rights

28. Women’s Movement..
 Equal Rights Amendment
(ERA)
 Prohibit legal
discrimination based on
gender
 Passed the Senate but was
not ratified by enough
states
 To this day there is no
federal ERA
 Some states have passed
their own
 Tennessee does not have
one