CHAPTER 29

NAACP:NationalAssociation for theAdvancement ofColored People

Plessy v. Ferguson

Separate but equal1896

Thurgood Marshall:Chief lawyer for the NAACP

Brown v. Board of Education

Began integration in the schools

Little Rock, Arkansas…1957The Little Rock Nine

Little Rock governor Orval Faubus opposed integration

President Eisenhower...

Sent hundreds of soldiers to patrol the school grounds and protect the students.

When did Rosa Park refuse to give up her seat on the bus?

December 1, 1955(lasted 1 year)Boycott: A refusal to use-the city’s buses75% of riders were AfricanAmerican

He followed tactics of:A. Phillip Randolph

and Gandhi

Who assassinated him?James Earl Ray in Memphis

Famous speech: I have a dream…Retracing_Dr__King_s_Steps_in_Memphis.asf ***He became the leader of the civil rights movement.

S C L CSouthern Christian Leadership Conference

started by King and 60 ministers – non violent protest

Mohandas Gandhi…..He used nonviolent protestto help India gain independence from Great Britain.civil disobedience:The refusal to obey the ways that are considered unjust.

Richard Nixon

John Kennedy

Section 2

35th president

U.S. Navy –WW II

U.S. Senator 1946/Mass.

Wrote Profiles in Courage (about difficult decisions)

New Frontier

Assassinated byLee Harvey Oswald while in Dallas, TX

First Catholic President of the U.S.

Kennedy – 49.7%Nixon – 49.5%

New Frontier

Social programsMore money for educationHelp poor people get jobsHelp African Americans fight for civil rights

The Assassination…

November 22, 1963Dallas, TexasLee Harvey OswaldOswald killed by Jack Ruby

Kennedy’s Vice President:Lyndon Johnson

“Great Society”

W AR

ON

POVERTY

22 years in Congress

Head Start

Upward Bound -

Job Corps

VISTA - Volunteers in Service to America

Preschool education

Helped poor kids attend college

Training to young people who want work

HUD

Department of Housing and Urban Development

Helped fund public housing projects

Civil Rights Act of 1964Prohibited discrimination against African Americans in employment, voting, and public accommodations.

Medicare: helped pay for medial care for senior citizens

Medicaid: helped poor people pay hospital bills.

Section 3

SNCC

tudent

onviolentoordination

ommittee

FREEDOM

Riders

Sit ins

Who wrote Profiles in Courage?

Kennedy

The lawyer for the NAACP that challenged the idea of “separate but equal”

Thurgood Marshall

1st African American to enroll at the University of Mississippi?

James Meredith

Gov. George Wallace at the University of Alabama