23.3 – the other side of american life
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23.3 – THE OTHER SIDE OF AMERICAN LIFE. 1950s saw a growth in the middle class But…about 20% of Americans still lived below the poverty line Chronicled by Michael Harrington in his book The Other America Who were the poor?. 23.3 – DECLINE OF THE INNER CITY. Poverty was best seen in the city - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVMENT
1954 - 1968
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25.1 – THE MOVMENT BEGINS
• What does the term “Civil Rights” mean to you?
• What does the term “segregation” mean to you?
• Does segregation still exist in the U.S. today?
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25.1 – THE MOVEMENT BEGINS
• After WWII many people started challenging segregation
– Federal gov’t started to take a stronger stand in support of African-American Rights
U.S. SUPREME COURT
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JIM CROW LAWS
• It shall be unlawful for a negro and a white person to play together in or in company with each other in any game of cards or dice, dominoes or checkers
– Birmingham, Alabama 1930
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JIM CROW LAWS
• No colored barber shall serve as a barber to white women or girls
– Atlanta, Georgia 1926
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JIM CROW LAWS
• Marriages are void where one party is a white person and the other is possessed of one-eighth or more negro, Japanese, for Chinese blood
– Nebraska, 1911
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JIM CROW LAWS
• Separate free schools shall be established for the education of children of African descent; and it shall be unlawful for any colored child to attend any white school, or any white child to attend a colored school
– Missouri 1929
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JIM CROW LAWS
• Any white woman who shall suffer or permit herself to be got with child by a negro or mulatto…shall be sentenced to the penitentiary for not less than 18 months
– Maryland, 1924
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JIM CROW LAWS
• All railroads carrying passengers in the state (other than street railroads) shall provide equal but separate accommodations for the white and colored races, by providing two or more passenger cars for each passenger train, or by dividing the cars by partition, so as to secure separate accommodations
– Tennessee 1891
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25.1 – ORIGINS OF THE MOVEMENT
Rosa Parks/Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955)
Thurgood Marshall - NAACP
CORE – Sit-ins
SCLC – Martin Luther King, Jr.
Brown v. Board - 1954
Little Rock, Arkansas - 1957
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25.1 – SIGNIFICANT COURT CASES(read on your own)
• Norris v. Alabama (1935)– Juries
• Morgan v. Virginia (1946)– Interstate buses
• Sweatt v. Painter (1950)– State law schools
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EMMETT TILL
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EMMETT TILL
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WHAT IS ONE THING YOU WOULD REALLY LIKE TO CHANGE IN GREAT VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL OR INAMERICA?
(THINK LAW, RIGHTS….)
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HOW WOULD YOU BRING ATTENTION TO THAT CAUSE/PURSUE CHANGE?
1. Title – your cause
2. Significance – why is this cause so important/why should it be addressed?
3. Actions – 2 specific steps you would take to bring attention/change
4. Rationale – why would you take those steps? What would those steps lead to that would bring about the change you desire?
5. Violence – is it justified in achieving your cause? Why or why not?
http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2015/03/17/starbucks-wants-baristas-to-talk-about-race-with-customers/?intcmp=features
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25.2 – CHALLENGING SEGREGATION
• Sit-in Movement– African-Americans asked to be
served at segregated restaurants
– 1960 Woolworth’s in Greensboro, N.C.
– By 1961 sit-ins had spread to over 100 cities
– Heavy student involvement
– Students eventually formed the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC); alternative to the NAACP and/or SCLC
Ella Baker
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25.2 – CHALLENGING SEGREGATION
• Freedom Riders– Groups of people encouraged to
travel in the South to bring attention to segregated buses/bus terminals
– Angry mobs often attacked the buses/passengers
– Horrific violence in Alabama in 1961
– The movement (3)– The tactic (1)– The strategy (2)– The governor
“Bull” Connor
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25.2 – KENNEDY AND CIVIL RIGHTS
• Promised to support the CRM– AAs voted in large numbers for him
– Early on he was timid, disappointed many AAs, why?
– Robert Kennedy (Attorney General) took charge of he administration’s support of the CRM
– By 1962 the segregation of interstate buses was over
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JAMES MEREDITH• 1962 – The Governor of
Mississippi refused to allow Meridith to enroll at the University of Mississippi
• Riots break out, JFK eventually has to send in federal troops to guard Meridith for the rest of the school year
• Meredith statue vandalized
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VIOLENCE IN BIRMINGHAM• Frustrated wit the pace of reform,
MLK began demonstrations in Birmingham, Alabama (1963)– Why did he do this?
• MLK was arrested, wrote his famous “Letter from Birmingham Jail”
• Under orders from Bull Connor, the police used clubs, dogs, and hoses on the demonstrators (us video)
• JFK prepares a new Civil Rights Bill
• Was this MLK’s plan all along?
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25.2 – PURSUIT OF A CIVIL RIGHTS BILL
• 1963 – JFK starts pushing for a Civil Rights Bill after the speech by Wallace and the murder of Medgar Evers
• August 28, 1963 – over 200,000 march on Washington, D.C. to push for a Civil Rights bill– MLK gives his “I Have a
Dream” speech (us video)
Medgar Evers
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25.2 – THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 1964
• Lyndon Johnson (LBJ) became president after JFK was assassinated on Nov. 22, 1963
• Under LBJ’s leadership the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed
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25.2 – THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 1964
1. Gave the federal gov’t broad powers to prevent racial discrimination
2. Made segregation illegal in most places of public gathering/accommodation
3. Gave citizens of all races and nationalities equal access to public facilities
4. Gave the U.S. Attorney General more power to bring about lawsuits to force school desegregation
5. Required private employers to end discrimination in the workplace
6. Established the EEOC (Equal Employment Opportunity Commission)
---- didn’t really address the issue of voting
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25.2 – THE STRUGGLE FOR VOTING RIGHTS
• 24h Amendment– Passed in 1964; did away with
poll taxes in federal (not state) elections
– AAs were still fighting a major battle to gain full voting rights; were often physical attacked for registering voters or voting itself
– MLK organized a march in Selma, Alabama to bring attention to the issue (1965); leads to “Bloody Sunday” (us video)
– LBJ was outraged, started pushing for new voting rights law
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25.2 – VOTING RIGHTS ACT OF 1965
WHAT IT DID1. Federal examiners could be
sent to register voters
2. Suspended discriminatory devices (literacy tests) in counties where less than half of all adults had been registered to vote
RESULTS1. By the end of 1965 almost
250,000 new AAs had been registered
2. # of elected AA officials in the South increased
Now the 2 major goals of the CRM (outlawing of segregation and laws to prevent voting rights) had been legislated. The movement now started to shift towards acquiring full social and economic equality; focus on poverty and cities
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25.3 – NEW CIVIL RIGHTS ISSUES
• After the Voting Rights Act of 1965 the was an increased focus on fighting poverty and social inequality as opposed to voting rights and segregation– Inner cities and ghettos
became a focus
• Most AAs were in low paying, low status jobs and poor, inner-city neighborhoods
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READ PAGES 870-872 and..a. Turn each heading into a
question and answer that question after reading the section (total of 4)
b. Summarize each section in 20%1. Urban problems2. Watts Riot3. Kerner Commission4. Shift to Economic Rights
c. Create an 8 question, multiple choice quiz (2 questions for each section)
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25.3 – RIOTS
• Watts - neighborhood in Los Angeles– 6 day riot; massive damage
both economically and physically (US video)
• Dozens of riots in the late 1960s– Tanks/troops sent into
Detroit in 1967
• Kerner Commission – established by LBJ to study urban riots; concluded that racism was the cause for most of the problems
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25.3 – ECONOMIC FOCUS
• By the mid-1960s the movement began to focus on economic change
• MLK moved into a slum in Chicago (why?)– Chicago
Movement
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25.3 – BLACK POWER
• In the late 1960s many AA’s, especially young, urban AAs, doubted MLKs methods
• Some called for “stronger” action:– Armed self-defense– Separate states for AAs– Expulsion of whites from
leadership positions (CORE, SNCC)
• Calls for Black Power
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25.3 – BLACK POWER
• Black power:- Stressed pride in AA culture
- Emphasized racial distinctiveness rather than assimilation
- Centered on controlling the direction of the social/political/economic struggles of AAs
- Led to new hair styles, new names, calls for new courses in school
• MLK criticized it but it was very popular, especially in poorer neighborhoods
Stokely Carmichael – leader of the SNCC in 1966
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25.3 – MALCOLM X
• Symbol/leader of the Black Power movement
• Real name was Malcolm Little– Tough childhood in Nebraska– Transformed in prison– Joined the Nation of Islam
(Black Muslims)
• Nation of Islam believed/taught:– Black Nationalism – AAs
should separate from whites and form their own self-governing communities Malcolm X
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25.3 – MALCOLM X cont.
• Changed his name to “X”, which symbolized the family name of his enslaved ancestors
• He broke with the Nation of Islam and changed some of his views after his pilgrimage to Makkah (Mecca) – Now believed that an integrated
society was possible– Assassinated in 1965 by members of
the Nation of Islam (why?)
• He influenced AAs for years to come– Black Panthers – formed in 1966; much
more “radical”– Believed in revolution, urged AAs to
arm themselves, wanted more rapid change
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25.3 – ASSASSINATION OF MLK
• C
JAMES EARL RAY