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Assignment 3 Part B : The Civil Rights Movement
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Turman signs Excutive Order 9981
- It stated that "equality of treatment and opportunity for all people in the armed services without regard to race, color, religion, or national origin."
- The committee was fomed against Jim Crow
- It ended segregation in the services
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The 14th Amendment
- It granted citizenship to all people born in the U.S
- "Life, liberty of roperty, without due process of law" indicates that no state can deny thier rights
- The amendment protected civil rights to all Americans
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Brown Vs. Board of Education
- It ended legal segregation in public schools
- Teachers, secretaries, welder, ministers, and students wante to be treated equally
- Hope and courage from people helped them push through discrimination
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Rosa Parks
- A 42 year old African American worked as a seamstress
- She boraded a city bus everyday to and from work
- She didn't want to give up her seat to a white women and sit in the back of the bus
- She changed history for blacks forever
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Emmett Till
- He whistled at a white woman at a park one day
- When he was 14 he was murdered
- He was beaten to death by 3 men in a barn
- They sent his body down a river and his family found his body 3 days latter
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Birmingham Chruch Bombing
- A 11 year old and three 14 year olds were killed in a church bombing
- The girls were getting ready for an adult service when a huge bomb exploded killing them all
- Roits and fires broke out and 2 more teenagers died
- A white man was found guilty in 2000
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24th Amendment
- It prohibits Congress and states the right to vote on payment of poll tax
- Poll taxes in southern states prevented blacks from voting
- It was processed by Congress to the states
- It was ratified by the states
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Civil Right Act
- The act was passed to forbid discrimination towars any race
- Black people were allowed real jobs
- Anyone that was a different race, color, sex, religion, or national origin was protected by this act
- It passed to forbid racial discriminations
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Mississippi NAACP is murdered
- Medger Evers fought in the battle against Normandy
- He applied for law school and got reected because he was black
- Evers boycotted against white merchants
- When he got to his drive way he had shirts that said "jim crow must go" and than he was shot in the back
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Martin Luther King JR March
- He led a 54 mile march to support blacks to have voting rights
- They marched from Selma to Montgomery
- If a black person wanted to go and vote they were always told it was either too late or the wrong day
- M.L.K believed blacks had the right to regiester and vote
