Dr. Helms - ED 439
02/05/02

BIG

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What were the major goals of the civil rights movement?
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How did civil rights bring about change?
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What are some of the civil rights laws that were passed in the
1960’s and 1970’s?
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What the kinds of discrimination minorities faced?
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Can you name advances that were made in the fight for equality?
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What different methods were used to fight?

“Without struggle their can be no progress” - Frederick
Douglas
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Equality for All
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African-Americans
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Women
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Latinos
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Native Americans

Segregation Integration Affirmative
Action
Civil
Disobedience
Nationalism Solidarity
Sit-in Migrant
Worker
Bilingual

Can you guess these acronyms?

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Provided defense for accused blacks in
1925 Detroit race riots
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Tested the validity of segregated schools by taking court cases in the South to the
Supreme Court

The NAACP began in 1910 in a small room of a New York City and became a major force in attempts to win equal rights for African-
Americans. Its members included a handful of African-Americans and whites. Today the headquarters of the NAACP occupies a five story building in Baltimore, Maryland. There are over 500,000 members and 2,200 local chapters.

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Founded in 1957 by 100 church leaders including Dr. Martin Luther King and Ralph
Abernathy.
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Participated in 1961 ‘freedom rides’ that desegregated interstate travel.
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Held voter registration drive which aided in the passing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

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Founded in 1966
Worked for equal rights for women in jobs, pay and education
Campaigned for maternity leave and child care centers
Brought women discrimination cases to court
Encouraged political activism among women

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Founded in 1968 by
University of Berkeley students
Promoted rights and cultural heritage of Asian
Americans
Work resulted in many major universities creating Asian American studies programs

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Black Panthers
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American Indian Movement
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SNCC-Student Nonviolent Coordinating
Committee
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CORE-Congress of Racial Equality

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Brown vs. Board of
Education of
Topeka
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Hernandez vs.
Texas
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Voting Rights Act
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Voting Rights Act
1975

Oliver Brown of Topeka, Kansas decided to challenge
Kansas law by asking the courts to let his daughter attend a nearby all-white school. This landmark case overturned Plessy vs. Ferguson decision of “separate but equal when Chief Justice Earl Warren declared that segregation affected the “hearts and minds” of black students.

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James DeAnda and other lawyers argued that Mexican
Americans were prevented from serving on juries in Texas.
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DeAnda also helped to desegregate Corpus Christi so that Mexican Americans were allowed to buy houses.

Followed the 1964 passing of the twenty-fourth amendment which banned the poll tax placed on
African Americans. This law went even further by ending literacy testing and allowing federal officials to register voters in states where local officials practiced discrimination.

• 1957 Little Rock, Arkansas
• 1960 Sit In Campaigns-Greensboro, North
Carolina
• 1961 Freedom Rides
• 1962 University of Mississippi Riot
• 1965 Bloody Sunday
• 1965 March on Washington

On the night before the first day of an unsegregated school, Governor Fauber ordered the National Guard to monitor Central High School.
Nine black students were kept from entering by the guardsmen. President
Eisenhower sent in paratroopers and 10,000
National Guardmen to Little
Rock and on Sept. 25 the high school was desegregated.

After having been refused lunch service at
Woolworth’s, Joseph
McNeill returned the next day with three classmates to sit at the counter until they were served. They were not served. But they kept returning day and day and inspired a nation to do the same.

Angry demonstrators are ordered to disperse by state troopers as they march from Selma to
Marion. Upon crossing the bridge leading out of Selma the group was not given time for the warning to be headed. Troopers attacked praying demonstrators with tear gas and batons.

Meet in the back of the classroom within
25 minutes to take the Civil Rights Tour.
As the tour is underway think of the impact the Civil Rights Movement has made on history.
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• Which Civil Rights Movement events did you find the most appealing?
Why?
• Which civil rights participants do you think will be remembered for the next
50 years?
• Do you think the civil rights movement accomplished its purpose?
• Is there equality among citizens of the
U.S. today? Why do you think so?