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Empowering Equality: Civil Rights Movement Overview

Explore the goals, methods, and impact of the Civil Rights Movement, focusing on African American rights, women's rights, and rights of other minority groups in the U.S. Understand key events, leaders, and legislative changes that shaped the movement for equality and justice.

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Empowering Equality: Civil Rights Movement Overview

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  1. The Civil Rights MovementReview Do now: Take out review materials

  2. Essay - Tuesday • Study goals and methods used by civil rights movement • Introduction • Goals and methods used • Goals and methods used • Impact on society • Conclusion

  3. I. African American Rights • 1. methods • Non-violence, passive resistance, peaceful • 2. civil disobedience • Break unjust laws- example: sit in,marches, protests, boycotts • 3. Dr. King – goals/ methods • Equality (voting, education, job opportunities,respect) • full rights by peaceful means

  4. 4. Plessy vs. Ferguson (1896) • “separate but equal” • Legalized Jim Crow and segregation • 5. Results of Brown decision (1954) • Overturned Plessy • “separate is inherently unequal” • Ended legal segregation

  5. 6. Civil Rights Acts • Bars discrimination • 7. Voting Rights Act • Ended voting restrictions (literacy tests etc)

  6. 8. Montgomery Bus Boycott / Rosa Parks • Refused to give up seat; arrested • Began successful, year-long boycott • Led to end of segregated buses • Impact: • People see the success of organized protests

  7. 9. Black Muslims – Malcolm X • Question Dr. King’s methods • Want changes faster • 10. Black Power Movement / Black Panthers • More militant • Urge for separate state

  8. 11. Busing • Purpose was to achieve racially balanced schools • Very controversial • 12. Defacto segregation • Separation based upon neighborhoods • 13. de jure segregation • Separation based on law for example: • Jim Crow laws

  9. II: Women’s Rights • 1. 19th Amendment and WWI • Showed they were valuable contributors to war • Suffrage – 1920 • 2. Impact of civil rights movement • Showed how organized protests can be successful

  10. 3A. Equal Pay Act • Equal pay for equal work • 3B. Civil Rights Act • Can’t discriminate based on gender (religion, national origin, race, ethnicity, age….) • 3C. Title IX • Part of educational code • Equal funding for women’s sports

  11. 5. Gender equity (equality) • Gender discrimination (based on male/female status) • 6. Betty Friedan wrote • The Feminine Mystique in 1950s • Impact • Began Women’s Rights Movement for equality

  12. 7. NOW • National Organization for Women • Fights for gender equity • 8. Gloria Steinem • Founded Ms. Magazine • Job titles changed to be gender neutral

  13. III. Rights of other groups • 1. Native Americans • Wanted equality, hunting and fishing rights • Land rights • 2. American Indian Movement (AIM) • Protests to gain rights • 3. Goal of current federal policies • Have Native Americans control their lives more

  14. 5. Cesar Chavez and UFW • Better conditions and rights for migrant farm workers • 6. Rights of disabled / special needs ADA • Greater access to transportation • Educational reforms

  15. 7. Mainstreaming • Bring students with special educational needs into the classroom in the least restrictive environment

  16. IV. Miscellaneous • 1. Growth of suburbs – Why? • Baby boom after WWII • Need for more space and housing • 2a. GI Bill • Loans for education and housing • 2b. Levittowns • Cheap, prefabricated housing in a grid

  17. 2c. Needed cars for suburban growth • 3. Urban – • city center • Suburban – • outside city • Rural – • farthest from center; farms/countryside

  18. Essay (Tuesday) • Goals of the Civil Rights Movement • Leaders • Methods used • Impact of the movement on society

  19. What do you need to do to get a 100% on tomorrow’s test? • Prepare • Study • Review • Sleep • Eat breakfast

  20. Integration-mix • Fluctuations-changes • Trend-pattern • Boycott • Homemaker-housewife • Tomboy- • Gender • Mass-produced • Affirmative action

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