752-754 Create metaphors related to the Civil Rights Movement. Describe efforts to end

1. 752-754 • 752-754 • Create metaphors related to • the Civil Rights Movement. • Describe efforts to end • segregation in the United States.

2. What’s the difference between a metaphor and an allegory? • Metaphor: A figure of speech that transfers the ideas of one word onto another. • For example? • the mouth of a river. • leg of a chair. • my brother is a clinging vine. • the foot of the mountain. • Allegory: An allegory is an extended metaphor. A metaphor might be just one sentence, but an allegory is a full story. • For example? • The Wizard of Oz • Frankenstein • Animal Farm • The Butter Battle

3. The Cold War Era The Butter Battle Book is a story written by Theodor Geisel (Dr. Seuss). It was published 1984 as an anti-war story; specifically, an allegory about the arms race during the Cold War. This book was written during the Cold War era, and reflects the concerns of the time, especially the perceived possibility that all life on earth could be destroyed in a nuclear war. Allegory: “The Butter Battle Book” As you watch, take notes on how the story represents the Cold War.

4. Civil Rights and Metaphors Black men and women lived behind an impenetrable wall of segregation. Eventually, however, Americans began to beat against the wall and it began to crack in the 1960s.

5. Civil Rights and Metaphors 1. Explain the symbolism of the following metaphors: a. The Civil Rights movement grew into a mighty stream of righteousness b. Martin Luther King was a candle in the darkness of the segregation nightmare. c. The Brown Case was a light at the end of the tunnel. d. The cancer of segregation began to be cured with the Montgomery bus boycott. e. The Little Rock Nine were the seeds that created a bountiful harvest of Civil Rights advancements. 2. Create a metaphor related to the struggle for Civil Rights: • A train, clock, oil and vinegar dressing, river , an engine, volcano, storm and/or think of one of your own.

6. The Struggle for Civil Rights • Charles Hamilton Houston and the NAACP Legal Defense • and Education Fund(1930s) on the Plessy Case. • Thurgood Marshall (1938) • Brown vs. Board of Educationreversed “separate but equal” • ending “de jure” segregation. • Supreme Court ruling in 1955 told states to integrate “with all deliberate speed”. • Southern Manifesto (1956) • Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas (1957)

7. Central High School – “The Little Rock Nine”

8. The Struggle for Civil Rights • Montgomery bus boycott • - Rosa Parks was arrested 1955 • - Martin Luther King, Jr. • and the Southern Christian • Leadership Conference • (SCLC). • - Lunch counter sit-in • Greensboro, North Carolina • Woolworth’s dime store. • Led by the Student Non-Violent Coordinating • Committee(SNCC) – created by Ella Baker. • Freedom Rides • CORE leader James Farmer in 1961 organized bus rides • throughout the south to test segregation on busses. • - One bus was stopped and burned in Birmingham, AL. Lunch counter sit in

9. The March on Washington, 1963- Martin Luther King, Jr. calls for more protests, sit-ins, marches in Birmingham, AL where police chief Bull Connor used harsh methods against protesters.- March on Washington – MLK called for a march to Lincoln Memorial in D.C. on 8/28/1963.-Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his “I Have a Dream” Speech to over 250K The Struggle for Civil Rights

10. Segregation: Although racial segregation under the law ended Plessy Case was overturned, it oftentimes continued under what is referred to as “de facto segregation”.de jure segregation – by law (as in the Plessy Case, or poll taxes, literacy tests) vs.de facto segregation – by custom, culture tradition. The Struggle for Civil Rights