The Civil Rights Era (1863-1968)
Chapter 21 (p. 698-727)
Supplemental Reading, & Websites (Available on the Wiki)
Quiz: Friday, February 27 (Snow Days Willing)
Vocab
Accommodation
Black Codes
Black Power
Civil Rights
Discrimination
Integration/Desegregation
Jim Crow Laws
Segregation
Sharecropping
Laws
13th Amendment
14th Amendment
15th Amendment
24th Amendment
Affirmative Action
Civil Rights Act (1866, 1871, 1875, 1957, 1960, 1964, & 1968)
Emancipation Proclamation
The Great Society
Defined
Civil Rights Act (1964)
Voting Rights Act (1965)
EEOC/EOA
Head Start/Upward Bound
Job Corps/VISTA
HUD
Other
People
Presidents
Abe Lincoln
Andrew Johnson
Ulysses S. Grant
Harry S. Truman
Dwight D. Eisenhower
John F. Kennedy
Lyndon B. Johnson
Activists
Booker T. Washington
WEB DuBois
Jackie Robinson
Thurgood Marshall
Earl Warren/Warren Court
Rosa Parks
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Stokely Carmichael
Muhammad Ali (Cassius Clay)
Malcom X
Organizations
Freedman’s Bureau
KKK
Southern Democrats
NAACP
SCLC
CORE
SNCC
Nation of Islam
Black Panthers
Flashpoints
Little Rock Nine (Integration of Central High School)
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Woolworth’s Sit-in (Greensboro, NC)
Freedom Riders
Desegregation of the University of Mississippi
Birmingham Riots
Medgar Evers is Murdered
March on Washington/”I Have A Dream” Speech
Malcom X Assassinated
Bloody Sunday (Selma to Montgomery March)
Watts Riots (Los Angeles)
Martin Luther King, Jr. Assassinated
Supreme Court Decisions
Dred Scott v. Sandford (1856)
Slaughter-House Cases (1873)
US v. Cruikshank (1876)
US v. Reese (1876)
Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
Missouri ex el Gaines v. Canada (1938)
McLaurin v. Oklahoma State Regents (1950)
Brown v. Board of Ed (1954)
Loving v. Virginia (1967)
Jones v. Mayer (1968)
Essential Questions:
1. How did Reconstruction fail African American’s fight for equality?
2. What role did the Supreme Court play in the Civil Rights Era?
3. What methods did various individuals/organizations employ in order fulfill/hinder the civil rights movement?