The document summarizes key events and figures in the US Civil Rights Movement from the 1860s through the 1960s. It describes how abolitionists like Frederick Douglass fought slavery, while the Reconstruction Era after the Civil War saw some progress with blacks gaining rights. However, Jim Crow laws enforced racial segregation. The NAACP and figures like MLK and Rosa Parks led the nonviolent resistance movement using tactics like bus boycotts, sit-ins, and marches. This resulted in landmark legislation like the Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act, though violence from groups like the KKK remained a threat.
Overview of the African American Civil Rights movement in the 1950s & 1960s. Modified from "Unit 9 Power Point Civil Rights Unit" by Crosswinds High School.
The Civil Rights Movement
Outline presentation
Introduction
Content
Historical context of Civil Rights Movement
Some of significant movement
The Success and Limitations of the Civil Rights Movement
Quiz
Historical context
The 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments were suppose to protect the rights of African Americans under the U.S. Constitution…
But they did not because of a ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court…
Overview of the African American Civil Rights movement in the 1950s & 1960s. Modified from "Unit 9 Power Point Civil Rights Unit" by Crosswinds High School.
The Civil Rights Movement
Outline presentation
Introduction
Content
Historical context of Civil Rights Movement
Some of significant movement
The Success and Limitations of the Civil Rights Movement
Quiz
Historical context
The 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments were suppose to protect the rights of African Americans under the U.S. Constitution…
But they did not because of a ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court…
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slavery and the civil rights movement 2016Elhem Chniti
This lecture is about slavery and the civil rights movement. The history of African Americans is retraced from the early slave trade through the emancipation proclamation to the present day.
71. " Your work is just beginning. If you go back home and sit down and take what these white men in Mississippi are doing to us. ...if you take it and don't do something about it. ... then *%# damn your souls. "
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73. Thousands marched to the Courthouse in Montgomery to protest rough treatment given voting rights demonstrators. The Alabama Capitol is in the background. March 18,1965
74. High Schoolers jailed for marching in Selma Oh Wallace, you never can jail us all, Oh Wallace, segregation's bound to fall
118. James Meredith, right, pulled himself to cover against a parked car after he was shot by a sniper. Meredith had been leading a march to encourage African Americans to vote. He recovered from the wound, and later completed the march. June 7, 1966
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122. "I believe in the brotherhood of man, all men, but I don't believe in brotherhood with anybody who doesn't want brotherhood with me. I believe in treating people right, but I'm not going to waste my time trying to treat somebody right who doesn't know how to return the treatment." -- Malcolm X 1964
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124. Left to right: Hosea Williams, Jesse Jackson, Martin Luther King Jr., Rev. Ralph David Abernathy on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel Memphis hotel, a day before King's assassination. April 3,1968
125. Aides of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King point out to police the path of the assassin's bullet. Joseph Louw, photographer for the Public Broadcast Laboratory, rushed from his nearby motel room in Memphis to record the scene moments after the shot. Life magazine, which obtained exclusive rights to the photograph, made it public. April 4, 1968.
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