CIVIL RIGHTS IN AMERICACIVIL RIGHTS IN AMERICAIn the 1950’s & 60’sIn the 1950’s & 60’s

Rosa Parks“You must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right”

Segregation: Separation of schools, buses, washrooms, restaurants, businesses, communities

Dec 1, 1955: Rosa refuses to give up her seat to a white passenger; she is arrested and fined $10

A random, unplanned act that fuels CR movement

Segregation of Schools:“Little Rock Nine”

1954 Brown vs. Board of Education: Segregation of schools is unconstitutional

What happens when 9 African Americans are enrolled in an Arkansas school in 1957?

Segregation of Schools:“Little Rock Nine”

Governor sends in National Guard to block them

President Eisenhower sends in 101st Airborne to escort black students to school

Segregation of Schools:George Wallace

“Stand in the Schoolhouse Door” @ University of Alabama, 1963

"segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever"

Martin Luther King jr.

Organized boycott of Montgomery Transit system after Rosa Parks; caused bankruptcy

Jailed many times for non-violent acts of resistance

Preached Agape love: win the white man over with love

Nobel Peace Prize 1967Assassinated April 4th,

1968

Malcolm XLeader of the NOI

(Nation of Islam)Pro-violence,

separationContempt for

“pacifists” like MLKAssassinated Feb 21,

1965

Black Panther Party

6. We want all black men to be exempt from military service. We believe that Black people should not be forced to fight in the military service to defend a racist government that does not protect us. We will not fight and kill other people of color in the world who, like black people, are being victimized by the white racist government of America. ...