1. CIVIL RIGHTS

2. LIFE FOR AFRICAN AMERICANS IN THE
SOUTH
• De jure segregation – legal segregation through
written laws
• Jim Crow laws – designed to separate blacks and
whites
• Plessy v. Ferguson, 1896 – “separate but equal”
• Segregation of beaches, cemeteries, hospitals,
restaurants, schools, transportation, and more

3. LIFE FOR AFRICAN AMERICANS IN THE
NORTH
• De facto segregation – unwritten segregation
through customs, housing patterns, and traditions
• Segregation and discrimination in housing, jobs, and
more

4. SEGREGATION IN AMERICA

5. CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
• 1905 – Niagara Movement begun by W.E.B. Du Bois,
William Monroe Trotter, and others
• 1909 – National Association for the Advancement of
Colored People (NAACP)
• 1911 – Urban League formed to help poor black workers
in cities
• 1941 – FDR ended discrimination in defense industries
• 1947 – Major League Baseball desegregated when
Jackie Robinson joined the Brooklyn Dodgers
• 1948 – Harry Truman desegregated the United States
military

6. IMPORTANT PEOPLE

7. CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
• Brown v. Board of Education, 1954
• Rosa Parks
• Greensboro Sit-in, 1960 (Four African-American
college students in Greensboro, North Carolina,
ordered coffee and doughnuts at a Woolworth’s
lunch counter)
• MLK joined demonstration and arrested
• Public Safety Commissioner T. Eugene “Bull” Connor
turned fire hoses and police dogs on protestors,
including kids

8. IMPORTANT PEOPLE

9. POLICE BRUTALITY

10. MARCH ON WASHINGTON, 1963
• August 28, 1963
• Over 200,000 peaceful demonstrators
• MLK’s “I Have a Dream” speech at the Lincoln
Memorial
• Broadcasted live on national television

11. I HAVE A DREAM

12. BIRMINGHAM CHURCH BOMBING, 1963
• September 15, 1963
• Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham,
Alabama
• Four young girls killed when bomb exploded

13. ASSASSINATION OF JFK, 1963
• November 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas
• Lyndon B. Johnson became president

14. CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 1964
• Outlawed segregation in public accommodations
• Required schools to desegregate

15. KKK (KU KLUX KLAN)

16. SELMA MARCH, 1965
• SCLC march in Selma, Alabama, for voting rights
legislation
• Edmund Pettus Bridge, between Montgomery and
Selma
• “Bloody Sunday” – March 7, 1965
• Alabama state troopers and others violently
stopped marchers
• Voting Rights Act of 1965

17. ASSASSINATION OF MLK, 1968
• April 4, 1968, in Memphis, Tennessee
• Shot on balcony of Lorraine Motel (now the Civil
Rights Museum)
• Killed by James Earl Ray, an ex-convict
• Riots erupted nationwide