Civil Rights Movement

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Equality

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Having the same rights and privileges

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Intolerance and hate

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The Civil Rights Movement wanted protection for African American against violence and to change attitudes of intolerance and hate towards them

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Nonviolence resistance

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A strategy of peaceful protest that rejected the use of violence, even for self-defense

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Organized protests

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Protests against discrimination and segregation that used nonviolent resistance

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Sit-in

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A strategy used by people protesting for civil rights. Demonstration in which protesters sit down in a location and refuse to leave.

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Marches

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A strategy used by people protesting for civil rights. The right to peaceably assemble is protected by the First Amendment to the Constitution.

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Boycotts

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A strategy used by people protesting for civil rights. They refused to use or service such as in the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

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Prejudice

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Judgment or opinion formed before facts are known

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Desgregation

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Ending segregation

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Segregation

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Forced separation of people of different races in public places

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Discimination

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Showing prejudice in treatmnet, actions, or policies against minority groups

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Sharecropping

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Working a piece of land by a tenant farmer in exchange for a portion of the profits they earned for the landowner. This system deteriorated into another form of slavery. At the end of the year the sharecropper's balance of money usually ended up in the landowner's favor. The sharecropper was stuck in a hopeless situation.

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Reconstruction

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One of the results of the Civil War was the abolition of black slavery. The "new" classification of former slaves as people rather than property did not mean that they were treated as equals.

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Racial Segregation

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One of the results of the Civil War was the abolition of black slavery. The "new" classification of former slaves as people rather than property did not mean that they were treated as equals.

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Bloody Sunday

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March 7, 1965. Dozens of marchers were injured on the first attempted March from Selma to Montgomery.Televised images of the marchers shocked many Americans.

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Summer, 1964

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A campaign known as Freedom Summer took place in Mississippi to register African Americans to vote. Three volunteers were killed.

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1964

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The Civil Rights Act of 1964 banned segregation in public places and prohibits employers, unions, and universities from discriminating on the basis of color, sex, religion, and national origin.

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September 1, 1963

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The Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, an African American church in Birmingham, Alabama, was bombed by the Ku Klux Klan. Four young girls were killed.

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August 28, 1963

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The March on Washington was held in Washington, D.C. It was an organized protest against segregated facilities. MLK, Jr.'s I Have a Dream speech was given here.

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1961

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Bus trips by civil rights workers through several southern states which protesters challenged illegal bus segregations became known was the Freedom Rides.

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1955

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During the Montgomery Bus Boycott African Americans boycotted city buses in Montgomery, Alabama, following the arrest of Rosa Parks. This led to the changing of discriminatory bus rules.

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1954

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The Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court ruling declared that segregation in public schools is illegal. The case was based on the premise that separate can never be equal and that racial segregation enforced by law violates the rights guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment and was therefore unconstitutional. It marked the end of the separate-but-equal policy established in Plessy v. Ferguson.

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Tuskegee Airman

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In WWII African Americans fought in segregated combat units. The Tuskegee Airmen was a segregated fighter pilot unit.

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1939

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Eleanor Roosevelt arranged for Marian Anderson to sing on the Lincoln Memorial. She sang to 75,000 people in the audience after the Daughters of the American Revolution refused to let her sing in the their performing arts center, Constitution Hall.

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1930's

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During the Great Depression African Americans were often the first to be laid off so white Americans could have jobs. There was segregation in many New Deal programs. FDR appointed African Americans to federal government positions. They became known as the Black Cabinet.

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Harlem Renaissance
(1920's)

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The Harlem Renaissance was a period of African American artistic achievement. During this time African Americans performed in segregated performing art centers, but African Americans were not permitted to attend these performances by African American musicians.

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1914-1920's

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Jobs for African Americans in the South were scarce and low paying. African Americans faced discrimination and violence. During the Great Migration North African Americans moved to northern cities in search of better opportunities. They still faced discrimination in the North.

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1909

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The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) was formed.

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1896

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in the Plessy v. Ferguson Supreme Cout Case in 1986 that established separate-but-equal doctrine for public facilities. This made segregation legal.

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1880's

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Jim Crow laws legalized discrimination against African Americans. These laws made discrimination practices leagal in many communities and states of the south. They were characterized by unequal opportunites in housing, work, education, and government.

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Jim Crow Laws

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Legalized discrimination against African Americans.These laws made discrimination practices leagal in many communities and states of the south. They were characterized by unequal opportunites in housing, work, education, and government.

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1875

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The Civil Rights Act of 1875 guaranteed equal rights to African Americans.

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1869

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The Fifteenth Amendment to the Constituiton states that the rights of citizens of the US to vote shall not be denied.

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1866

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The Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution defines citiszenship as anyone born or naturalized in the US . It protects life, liberty, and property and was ratified in 1868.

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1865

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The Thirteenth Amedment outlawed slavery.

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1862

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The Emancipation Proclamation freed all slaves in nonoccupied areas rebelling against the US.

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1857

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In the Dred Scot Decision the Supeme Court decided that African Americans were not citizens.

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1830's

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The Abolitionist Movement was formed to end slavery. Important figures in this movement include Sojourner Truth, Freferick Douglass, and Harriet Tubman.

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Black Cabinet

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During the Great Depression African Americans were often the first to be laid off so white Americans could have jobs. There was segregation in many New Deal programs. FDR appointed African Americans to federal gov't positions, known as the Black Cabinet

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Great Migration North

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African Americans moving to northern cities seeking better opportunites because the jobs in the South for them were scarce and low paying. They still face discrimination in the North.

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Plessy v. Ferguson Supreme Court Case

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1896 case that established seperate-but-equal doctrine for public facilities, making segregation legal.

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Civil Rights Act of 1875

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Guaranteed equal rights to African Americans.

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Fifteenth Amedment

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States that the rights of citizens of the US to vote shall not be denied.

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Fourteenth Amendment

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Defines citizenship as anyone born or naturalized in the US. It protects life, liberty, and property and was ratified in 1868.

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Thirteenth Amendment

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Outlawed slavery

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Emancipation Proclamation

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Freed all slaves in nonoccupied areas rebelling against the US.

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Dred Scot Decision

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Supreme Cout decided that African Americans were not citizens.

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Abolitionist Movement

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Formed to end slavery. Important figures: Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass.

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Reasons for the Success of the Civil Rights Movement

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1. struggle was based on constitutional principles that all people are created equal
2. great leaders
3. large committed following of people
4. based on nonviolence
5. there was a contrast between the nonviolence of the protestors and the injustice they endured by the people against civil rights for all americans that generated support by many Americans
6. People were willing to risk their lives
7. people had admirable character traits such as persverance and determination
8. people showed courage, patriotism, selflessness, integrity, and wisdom