Unit 12: Civil Rights
The Civil Rights Movement in the
50’s and 60’s
Name: ______________________
Block ______________
Date: ________________
Brown vs. the Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas
 ______________________________________________________
 NAACP lawyer ________________________________ leads the defense and
argues the case before the Supreme Court
 (He will later become the ______________________________________.)
 Brown vs Board of Education ________________ Plessy vs Ferguson (the case
that established _________________________________.)
 Ends segregated schools & says that separate but equal is “inherently unequal”
 Brown includes a Virginia case, argued by NAACP lawyer __________________.
Reaction to Brown
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Resistance across the __________________
“____________________________” from public schools to private schools.
Some public school systems are closed: Official policy of “Massive Resistance”
Federal Troops are called to ________________________ in Arkansas to enforce
integration
Leaders of the Movement
 Martin Luther King, Jr
o Coordinated ______________________________________
o Led the Montgomery ______________________________
o Youngest Nobel Peace Prize Winner
 __________________
o Began the Montgomery Bus Boycott
o Member of the ___________________ -- she was an activist!
 ___________________
o Member of the Nation of Islam
o Advocated (wanted) ____________________________________
o Frustrated with white leadership in the civil rights movement
 Robert F. Kennedy
o Brother of JFK, US Attorney General
o Helps protect the _______________________________
o Supports desegregation as a NY Senator -- committed to Civil Rights
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Of all the challenges the civil rights movement faced, which one do you think was most important in
changing America’s opinions about the civil rights movement?
Events
 _______ March on Washington
o Martin Luther King, Jr’s “I Have a _____________” speech
o Builds support for civil rights legislation
o Shows power of _________________________________
 ______________________________________________
o Introduced by JFK just before his assassination
o Prohibits ____________________based on race, religion, ethnicity or
gender
o New President Lyndon B. _____________ (LBJ) gets it passed
 ________________________________________________
o Outlaws ________________ for voting
o Increased African-American voters
 1968 Summer Olympics
o Two African-American athletes raise black gloves on the
medal stand
o Both are expelled from the games for their “political”
protest
 Frustration and Riots
o ____________________leads to __________________ in the mid-to-late
1960’s.
o African-Americans are frustrated with the slow pace of change, even (or
especially?) after Civil Rights legislation and Supreme Court rulings that
‘guaranteed’ rights
o Rise of the ________________________________ and the Black Panthers
 Provided social services in African-American neighborhoods
 Disagreed with King’s non-violent resistance – thought that violence
should be met with violence in self-defense
 Controversial