History Soars at Pheonix  

Lecture Guide: Introduction to the Civil Rights Movement

 

 

Review of African American Rights:

 

• - 13th Amendment is passed (___________________)

- Black Codes are passed in the South to __________ African Americans

           

• - 14th Amendment is passed (_________________________________)

 

1870    - 15th Amendment is passed (_________________________________)

 

• - Plessy v. Ferguson (Segregation is legal - ________________________________)

 

 

Segregation:

• Black Codes – “________________________”

• Established _______________ facilities for ___________ and ____________ across the South

• ___________________ upheld segregation

• Limitations placed upon the ability for African Americans to _____________ (poll taxes, __________________, grandfather clauses), allowed for these laws to _______________.

 

 

 

African Americans Organize:

Civil Rights Organizations are created to fight for change!!

 

• NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People)

  • Founded in 1909 with the goal of _________ equality between the races

  • Used _______ and _________________ to enact change

 

• Double V Campaign

  • Created during _________ to fight for both rights at _______ and ___________.

 

• CORE (Congress of Racial Equality)

  • Founded in 1942 to fight ________________

  • Used method of ____________ to achieve goals

 

• SCLC (Southern Christian Leadership Conference)

  • Founded in 1957 by ____________ and other ministers

  • Used ___________________ to achieve ______________ between the races

 

 

Successes for Civil Rights – The 1940s:

 

• Jackie Robinson plays in the All-White MLB (1945)

• Leads to integration of ______ and _______ within a few years

  • FDR bans ________________ in federal agencies

  • 1948 Truman ______________ the armed forces

  • Supreme Court Declares

• Segregated _____________ illegal

• Segregated _________ and _________ school illegal

 

 

1950s Civil Rights:

• Brown v. Board of Education (1954)

• Supreme Court Cast

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• Rosa Parks and Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955)

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• Little Rock Arkansas (1957)

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Limitations on 1950s Civil Rights due to:

• Lack of white support for change

• Fear of desegregation in the South

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