Apush civil rights

1. Civil Rights 50’s & 60’s

2. NAACP
The National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People.
•Advance civil rights.
•Black voter registration.
•Legislative and legal maneuvering.
•Instrumental in Brown.

3. “Sit-in” Movement
•Woolworth’s lunch counter, Montgomery,
Alabama.
•The movement spread quickly.
•Boycott as weapon.
Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee
(SNCC). Southern black students. No
segregation, equality, and voter registration.

4. Birmingham, Alabama - 1960

6. Why Birmingham?
•Largest almost exclusively segregated city
in the South.
•Bus Boycott.
•Freedom Riders.
•Birmingham Bombing. Four small girls
killed. The Klan goes to war.

7. “Women love hoods too!”

8. James Meridith and Ole Miss,
1962

9. “March on Washington”
•March, 1963.
•“I have a dream.”
•200,000 demonstrators
in a peaceful march.

10. 1964 Civil Rights Act
•Gave the gov’t more
powers of enforcement
in school
desegregation cases.
•Prohibited racial
discrimination in all
kinds of public
accommodations and
employment.

11. Voter registration

12. Black power
•Malcolm X.
•Movement away from
King’s philosophy.
•Black Panthers.
•Bobby Seale, Huey
Newton, Stokely
Carmicheal.