2. Civil Rights Movement
Goal
End Segregation in the
South by staging various
protests
Three Leaders
1. Martin Luther King Jr
2. Malcom X
3. Stokely Carmichael
3. Malcom X Martin Luther King JR
Pushed to end Pushed to end
segregation segregation
Father killed by white Father was a Baptist
supremacist preacher
Taught black supremacy Taught passive
Violence resistance
Later he changes his Nonviolence
mind and supports MLK Followed Ghandi’s
teachings
Assassinated 1965
Assassinated 1968
4. Stokely Carmichael
Coined the phrase “Black
Power”
Leader of the Black
Panther Party
Viewed the draft for
Vietnam as racist
6. School Desegregates.
1st Victory for Movement
Brown v. Board of
Education
Supreme Court rules to
end segregation in schools
Albert Gore Sr.
Tennessee Senator who
was for desegregation
2 Famous Schools
1. Clinton, Tennessee
2. Little Rock, Arkansas
7. School Desegregates..
Clinton, Tennessee
1956
Clinton 12
12 African Americans
enroll in all-white school
John Casper
White supremacist
Leads Protestors
Beating of Clinton 12
bodyguard and school
bombings
8. School Desegregates...
Little Rock, Arkansas
Little Rock 9
9 African Americans who
attend the High School
National Guard sent to
force desegregation
Escorted students from
class to class
9.
10. Fighting Segregation
Diane Nash
Organizes lunch
counter sit-ins in
Nashville
Rosa Parks
Arrested for refusing to
move to the back of the
bus
Leads to bus boycott
Boycott leads to
desegregation of the
bus system
11.
12. Fighting Segregation.
Birmingham Alabama
Location of most violence
in the Civil Rights
movement
MLK stages a campaign for
desegregation here
Sit ins, kneel ins, and
boycotts
Fill the jails through passive
resistance
George Wallace
Governor of Alabama who
opposed desegregation
13.
14. Fighting Segregation..
Eugene “Bull” Connor
Birmingham
Commissioner of Public
Safety
Ordered fire hoses and
attack dogs to be used
to stop MLK
Americans change their
minds
Results in Birmingham
being desegregated
15. March on Washington
“I have a dream”
Famous speech calling for
equality
Leads to Two Political Acts
1. Civil Rights Act of 1964
Ends legal discrimination
based on race
2. Voting Rights Act of 1965
Allowed African Americans
to vote
Strom Thurman
Racist Senator who tried
to stop the Civil Rights Act
(Filibuster)
16. Landmark Cases
Gideon vs. Wainwright
(1963)
Gideon arrested for
robbing a poolroom
Can’t afford attorney, asks
for one
Request denied
Establishes your right to
an attorney
17. Landmark Cases.
Miranda vs. Arizona
(1963)
Miranda commits a
violent crime
Never informed of right to
refuse to answer questions
and the right to an
attorney
Miranda Warning, “You
have the right to remain
silent…”
18. Kennedy Assassination
John F. Kennedy
November 22, 1963, Dallas,
Texas
Kennedy shot in his car
while he rides through the
streets
Lee Harvey Oswald accused
of assassination
Shot two days later by Jack
Ruby
Huge conspiracy
Grassy Knoll
Bay of Pigs
Mob
23. Great Society
Lyndon B Johnson
President after Kennedy
The Great Society
Helping below the poverty
line
1. Head Start
Free preschool
2. Medicaid
Medical care for people
3. Medicare
Medical care for old people
24. Continued Upheaval
April 4, 1968
Lorraine Motel
MLK Shot in Memphis
By James Earl Ray
King is buried in Atlanta,
Georgia
25.
26. Women’s Movement
Inspired by the Civil
Rights movement
Two Waves of Feminism
1. First wave of
“feminism”
Process of women
achieving the right to vote
2. Second wave of
“feminism”
Gaining equality for
women
27. Women’s Movement.
Betty Friedan
The Feminine Mystique
More to life than marriage
and children
National Organization for
Women (NOW)
End the discrimination of
women in the workplace
Gloria Steinem
Founder of Ms. Magazine
Key voice of women’s
rights
28. Women’s Movement..
Equal Rights Amendment
(ERA)
Prohibit legal
discrimination based on
gender
Passed the Senate but was
not ratified by enough
states
To this day there is no
federal ERA
Some states have passed
their own
Tennessee does not have
one