US Government – Civil Rights – Brown v Board of Education

Bellwork/Group Work

With your neighbor, identify your current knowledge of the Civil Rights Movement. Ask each other these questions:

Who?
When?
Why?
Where?
How?

Our Standard

GC.26
Evaluate the Supreme Court’s interpretations of the freedoms in the 14th Amendment, equal
protection, and due process clauses, including:
• Plessy v. Ferguson • Roe v. Wade • Gitlow v. New York • Obergefell v. Hodges • Brown v. Board of Education H, P, T

What am I learning today?

This impact of Brown v Board of Education had on our nation.

Why am I learning this?

Brown v Board of Education was a ground-breaking US Supreme Court Decision that changed our country.

How will I know I learned this?

Understanding how a 1954 US Supreme Court decision changed YOUR life..

Objective Today

The students will understand how people over the years have been denied their civil rights and the steps America has taken to instill these rights and how Brown v Board of Education was a catalyst for change.

What was Mark Twain saying?

Discrimination

dis·crim·i·na·tion – noun

1. an act or instance of discriminating, or of making a distinction.

2. treatment or consideration of, or making a distinction in favor of or against, a person or thing based on the group, class, or category to which that person or thing belongs rather than on individual merit: racial and religious intolerance and discrimination.

3. the power of making fine distinctions; discriminating judgment: She chose the colors with great discrimination.

4. Archaic. something that serves to differentiate.

Origin:

1640–50; < Latin discrīminātiōn- (stem of discrīminātiō ) a distinguishing. See discriminate, -ion

(http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/discrimination)

Prejudice

prej·u·dice – noun

1. an unfavorable opinion or feeling formed beforehand or without knowledge, thought, or reason.

2. any preconceived opinion or feeling, either favorable or unfavorable.

3. unreasonable feelings, opinions, or attitudes, especially of a hostile nature, regarding a racial, religious, or national group.

4. such attitudes considered collectively: The war against prejudice is never-ending.

5. damage or injury; detriment: a law that operated to the prejudice of the majority.

verb (used with object)

6. to affect with a prejudice, either favorable or unfavorable: His honesty and sincerity prejudiced us in his favor.

(http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/prejudice)

Bigotry

big·ot·ry – noun, plural big·ot·ries.

1. stubborn and complete intolerance of any creed, belief, or opinion that differs from one’s own.

2. the actions, beliefs, prejudices, etc., of a bigot.

Origin:

1665–75; bigot + -ry, formation parallel to French bigoterie

Synonyms

1. narrow-mindedness, bias, discrimination.

(http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/bigotry)

Civil War Amendments to the US Constitution

15th Amendment . - Baby Panba's Amendment Weebly Project .

Plessy V Ferguson

February 8, 1915

How ‘The Birth of a Nation’ Revived the Ku Klux Klan

Jim Crow Laws

Water Fountains

Movie Theaters

Anniston, Alabama1936 photograph by Peter Sekaer | Walker evans, Walker evans photography, American photography

Housing

Sundown Towns

Creation of the KKK

KKK founded

1920’s Nativism and the Revival of the KKK

Red Summers – Tulsa

The Red Summer of 1919 in U.S. Cities

Remains found in search for 1921 Tulsa race massacre victims

Researchers find skeletal remains of children, man with gunshot wounds at unmarked graves near Tulsa Race Massacre site

1954 – Brown vs Board of Education

1955 – Emmitt Till is Murdered

Funeral for Emmett Till, lynched in 1955, unfolds every day in the nation's capital - The Washington Post

August 28, 1955

Justice Department Reopens Emmett Till Murder Investigation | KPBS

December 1, 1955

Rosa Parks

1956 – The Clinton 12

Lunch Counter Sit-ins

1961

“In the summer of 1961, two young African-American men decided to go swimming at one of Nashville’s municipal pools — one that was reserved by Jim Crow for whites only. Days later, the city closed all its public pools — and left them shut for three years.

Of the 22 municipal swimming pools Nashville operated at the time, seven were designated for blacks. One of those was in Hadley Park, barely a mile from the Freedom Rides office.

If they were going to swim that day, they were going to do it at Centennial Park — Nashville’s premiere public space — a park with a full-scale replica of the Parthenon right in the middle.

Hadley was lovely, too. Like Centennial, it had a bandshell, playing fields, shade trees, and ample space for picnics. But, as Lillard explained, the intent of the Civil Rights Movement was not to abandon what was good in black neighborhoods.

“The goal was to have dignity.”“
https://bittersoutherner.com/nashville-pools-jim-crow#.X4OTEWhKiUk

Race, Riots, and Roller Coasters: The Struggle over Segregated Recreation in America (Politics and Culture in Modern America): Wolcott, Victoria W.: 9780812223286: Amazon.com: Books

The Forgotten History of Segregated Swimming Pools and Amusement Parks - Greed

Easter of 1963 – Birmingham

Letter from Birmingham Jail

“Negro brothers smothering in an airtight cage of poverty in the midst of an affluent society; when you suddenly find your tongue twisted and your speech stammering as you seek to explain to your six-year-old daughter why she can’t go to the public amusement park that has just been advertised on television, and see the tears welling up in her little eyes when she is told that Funtown is closed to colored children, and see the depressing clouds of inferiority begin to form in her little mental sky, and see her begin to distort her little personality by unconsciously developing a bitterness toward white people; when you have to concoct an answer for a five-year-old son who is asking in agonizing pathos: “Daddy, why do white people treat colored people so mean?” when you take a cross country drive and find it necessary to sleep night after night in the uncomfortable corners of your automobile because no motel will accept you;

May 2, 1963, Kids March in Birmingham

June 11, 1963 – University of Alabama and Governor George Wallace

August 28, 1963 – “I have a Dream”

Freedom’s Ring

18 Days Later

1964 – Civil Rights Act

Some People Did Not Want it to Pass

At 7:40 on the evening of June 19, 1964, after the longest debate in its nearly 180-year history, the U.S. Senate passes the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The vote in favor of the bill is 73 to 27. Thirteen days later, on July 2, the U.S. House of Representatives passes the bill and President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the bill into law that same evening. Five hundred amendments were made to the bill and Congress debated the bill for 534 hours