Laws Support Civil Rights

Laws Support Civil Rights

Summarize the cause for passage and the effects of passing civil rights and voting rights legislation,

including the 24th Amendment.

APK Dred Scott

Blacks are property Plessy v Ferguson

Separate is equal Brown v Board

Separate is not equal

Causes: Civil Rights Act of 1964 Racial tensions and civil rights

protests grew during the early 1960’s

Alabama governor refused to desegregate state universities (remember Little Rock 9?)

Pres. Kennedy demanded that Congress pass a civil rights law

Kennedy was killed Pres. Johnson persuades

Southern senators to pass billDescribe the main reason for the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

The LBJ Treatment

Effects: Civil Rights Act of 1964 Prohibited discrimination because of race,

color, religion, or national origin, and gender Gave the federal government power to

speed up desegregation Banned discrimination in employment

Established Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

Banned discrimination in public places Parks Restaurants Theatres

What is the significance of the Civil Rights Act of 1964?

24th Amendment Causes:

Poll taxes still required in 5 Southern states

Poor AA’s could not afford to pay Effects:

24th amendment- Made poll taxes illegal *extended the right to vote to

millions of poor people

Describe the impact of the 24th Amendment

Causes: Voting Rights Act of 1965 Southern states had passed

laws to limit AA voting rights 1964- Freedom Summer

Volunteers worked to register AA voters in Mississippi

Sparked racial violence and murder

1965- Selma, Alabama Protests and violence over

voting rights

Pres. Johnson submits the Voting Rights Act to Congress

Effects: Voting Rights Act of 1965

Eliminated literacy tests often used to disqualify African American voters

Allowed federal examiners to register voters who had been denied their rights

**Tripled the number of African Americans registered to vote in the South

How did literacy tests affect AA voters?

Summarize the impact of the voting rights act of 1965.

Causes: Civil Rights Act of 1968

De facto segregation Segregation that exists by practice

and custom “white flight”

Moving out of cities and into suburbs De jure segregation

Segregation by law Kerner Commission

Report stating that the North was becoming segregated

Housing discrimination Civil Rights Act of 1968 ended housing

discrimination Which is more difficult to fight? De jure or De facto segregation? Explain.

Effects of the Civil Rights Movement

Ended legal segregation Protected civil rights and civil rights Increased pride and racial identity More African American voters, officials, high

school and college graduates

Review How did minorities cope (deal) with inequalities? Who were the SNCC? How did they contribute to the civil

rights movement? What were some of the actions of the SCLC? Analyze (break apart) the importance of the Little Rock

Nine. What were the goals of the UFWOC? How were they

achieved? Explain the impact of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 Describe the significance of the 24th Amendment. Examine the impact of the Voting Rights Act of 1965