CIVIL RIGHTS (1950’s)

• 1) Identify and define– Great Migration– Jim Crow– Plessey Vs. Furguson– Brown Vs. Board of Education

• 2) Explain how events like the Great Migration and Emmitt Till jump started the Civil Rights movement.

• 3) Evaluate if Brown vs. the Board of Education was instrumental in ending segregation in the South.

Civil Rights in the 1950’s

• Great Migration- Blacks are moving out of the south into cities in the west and north (LA, NYC, Chicago, Detroit)– How will blacks moving out of the South to the North help to

jump start the Civil Rights movement?• *Importance- creates “voting blocs” that elected black politicians that

forced the nation to focus on and change segregation in the South

• Jim Crow Laws- (segregation) laws that separated blacks and whites in public places (school, restaurants, theaters, bathrooms, etc.)

• Plessy vs. Ferguson- (1896) court case that allowed segregation as long as facilities were “separate but equal”– *Separate was enforced but not the equal part

• Emmett Till- 14 year old child kidnapped, murdered for whistling at white woman, two brothers accused of killing Emmett found innocent, sold story to magazine about how they killed Emmett to a magazine (5th Amend.)

– How does Emmett’s murder spark the Civil Rights movement?

• NAACP- uses courts to overturn segregation in the 1950’s• Thurgood Marshall- NAACP leading attorney, traveled

south in the 1930’s and 40’s defending black rights in court– *later became first African-American Supreme Court Justice

• Brown vs. Board of Education- 1954 (Topeka) court case that overturns segregation in schools– Does segregation still exist in schools today? Explain