“A Change is Gonna’ Come,” Sam Cooke, 1963 I was born by the river in a little tent Oh and just like the river I've been running ever since It's been a long, a long time coming But I know a change gonna come, oh yes it will It's been too hard living but I'm afraid to die Cause I don't know what's up there beyond the sky It's been a long, a long time coming But I know a change gonna come, oh yes it will I go to the movie and I go downtown Somebody keep telling me don't hang around It's been a long, a long time coming But I know a change gonna come, oh yes it will Then I go to my brother And I say brother help me please But he winds up knocking me Back down on my knees Ohhhhhhhhh.....
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“A Change is Gonna’ Come,” Sam Cooke, 1963 I was born by the river in a little tent
Oh and just like the river I've been running ever sinceIt's been a long, a long time comingBut I know a change gonna come, oh yes it will
It's been too hard living but I'm afraid to dieCause I don't know what's up there beyond the skyIt's been a long, a long time comingBut I know a change gonna come, oh yes it will
I go to the movie and I go downtownSomebody keep telling me don't hang aroundIt's been a long, a long time comingBut I know a change gonna come, oh yes it will
Then I go to my brotherAnd I say brother help me pleaseBut he winds up knocking meBack down on my knees
Ohhhhhhhhh.....There been times that I thought I couldn't last for longBut now I think I'm able to carry onIt's been a long, a long time comingBut I know a change gonna come, oh yes it will
Learning Targets
Evaluate the need for a Civil Rights Movement
Describe the non-violent actions of the Civil Rights Movement
Summarize the accomplishments of the Civil Rights Movement
1880s: Jim Crow Laws
• In response to Civil War Amendments
• Separate but equal is legal
WWI and WWII
• Segregation in the military
WWI Harlem Hell Fighters WWII Tuskegee Airmen
1950s: Conditions in the South
• Separate schools• Unequal treatment• Voting restrictions (poll taxes, literacy tests, intimidation)• Violence (lynchings, KKK, i.e. Emmet Till)
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“Separate but Equal” Schools?
Vs.
White School African American School
Photographs used in the Brown Vs. Board of Education case
White Board Moment
Summarize in 5 words or less why there was a need for a civil rights movement.
1954: Brown Vs. Board of Education
• Ruled that separate schools are NOT equal
• Many Southern states refused to integrate (i.e. Little Rock)
"I draw the line in the dust and toss the gauntlet before the feet of tyranny and I say segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever." Governor of Alabama George Wallace, Inaugural address, Jan. 14, 1963
1956: Montgomery Bus Boycott
• Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat
• NAACP and MLK, Jr. organized• Successful after one year