The Civil Rights Movement: 1950-1960
-Catalysts for Change during the time period -Desire for equality -Vietnam War -Reform -100 years to build followers for the movement -NAACP, CORE, MLK's SCLC -Peaceful Methods -Black Panthers, Nation of Islam, and Black Nationalist movement -Violence -only way to achieve equality -Segregation -Restaurants, schools, public facilities -less job and educational opportunities -Activists -Martin Luther King Jr. -President of Southern christian Leadership Conference -Prominent African-American speaker -Won the Noble Peace Prize -Malcolm X -studied in Prison Library for his education -wanted total separation among the races -only way for equality -started his own organization -Both MLK and Malcolm X were assassinated -Protests -Selma to Montgomery 50 mile walk -National guard protected the protest -40,000 people attended -NAACP -400,000 members in 1967 - Rosa Parks -Sat in the front of a Montgomery bus - Caused an uproar within the city and the nation - another catalyst for reform -Civil Rights Act -outlawed discrimination against people based on the color of their skin -Enacted equal voting opportunities for all races -Equal protection among all races under the 14th Amendment Jim Crow Laws - Way for states to enforce segregation - 1880s to the 1960s - Forbade intermarriage - Required separate public facilities - Buses, Railroads, Restaurants, Education, Housing Locations |