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Civil Rights: African Americans Lead the Way Background: 1896 - Separate but Equal? 1940s - NAACP Forms 1950s - Brown v. Board, Rosa Parks, Little Rock 9 Martin Luther King Jr. Sit-In Movement Students for a Non- Violence Coordinating Committee (SNCC) Freedom Rides 1963 March On Washington Civil Rights Act of 1964 Freedom Summer Voting Rights Act of 1965 Black Power and the Black Panther Party
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Civil Rights: African Americans Lead the Way

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Page 1: Civil Rights: African Americans Lead the Way

Civil Rights:

African Americans Lead the Way

Background: 1896 - Separate but Equal?

1940s - NAACP Forms

1950s - Brown v. Board, Rosa Parks, Little Rock 9

Martin Luther King Jr.

Sit-In Movement

Students for a Non-

Violence Coordinating

Committee (SNCC)

Freedom Rides

1963 March On

Washington

Civil Rights Act of 1964

Freedom Summer

Voting Rights Act of

1965

Black Power and the

Black Panther Party

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1896 - Separate but Equal?

Jim Crow Rules! KKK enforces!

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1940s - NAACP Forms

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1954 - Brown v. Board of

Education desegregates schools

& Little Rock 9 Challenge its

enforcement

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Sit-In Movements

Non-violent protest at work

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SNCC

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1961 Freedom Rides

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Freedom Rides Non-violence is met with violence

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1963 March on Washington

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March on Washington demands

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Birmingham, Alabama

As a starting point for enforcement

& a national wake up call!

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Civil Rights Act of 1964

Civil Rights Act of 1964 definition: A federal law that authorized

federal action against segregation in public accommodations, public

facilities, and employment. The law was passed during a period of great

strength for the civil rights movement, and President Lyndon Johnson

persuaded many reluctant members of Congress to support the law.

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Freedom Summer

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Voting Rights Act of 1965

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The Original 6 Black Panthers

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Going forward…

Much of the ground work (ideals, tactics, etc.)

of the African Americans to gain civil rights

was borrowed by all other disadvantaged

groups in later decades.

Today, it’s hard to believe the images and

rhetoric because we have become a much

more equitable society, but many people still

strive to segregate (neo-Nazi groups, white

supremacist groups, etc.)