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American Segregation

Meets the

Civil Rights Movement

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English 10

• Mr. Zitrin

12 Dec. 2017

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Introduction to Civil Rights

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Civil rights are considered federal: They come from being a U.S. citizen (Findlaw) Civil rights laws prevent discrimination based on:

• Age
• Disability
• Ethnicity

...and more.

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Introduction to Civil Rights

Civil rights are considered federal: They come from being a U.S. citizen (Findlaw) Civil rights laws prevent discrimination based on:

• Age
• Disability
• Ethnicity

...and more.

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Introduction to Civil Rights

Though slavery was abolished in the U.S. in 1865, many Americans lived under “Jim Crow” laws for another century. These laws separated people by race -- but, as the Supreme Court would eventually rule, equality may be impossible when different groups live under different rules (Davis).

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Introduction to Civil Rights

Introduction to Civil Rights

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John Lewis

Civil Rights Leader & Congressman

Congressman and former Civil Rights leader John Lewis advocated both justice and compassion. Lewis explained, “When you see something that is not right, not just, not fair, you have to do something. You have to say something. But say it with love… and act with kindness (Johnson).

History of Civil Rights in the United States

Selma, AL 1963

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History of the U.S. Civil Rights Movement

• Branch Rickey signs Jackie Robinson

to break the “color barrier” in Major League Baseball.

• President Harry S. Truman signs

Executive Order 9981, ending segregation in the Armed Forces. (History.com)

1940’s

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History of the U.S. Civil Rights Movement

• Brown v. Board of Education: Supreme

Court case ends school segregation -- which proves easier said than done.

• Rosa Parks famously refuses to move

to the back of an Alabama bus. Black citizens boycott the bus system. (History.com)

1950’s

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History of the U.S. Civil Rights Movement

The 1963 March

• n Washington

(History.com)

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History of the U.S. Civil Rights Movement

• Martin Luther King, Jr. delivers his “I

Have A Dream” speech at the March on Washington in 1963. Remarkably, the “dream” part was unplanned (Hansen)

• President Lyndon B. Johnson signs

the Civil Rights Act of 1964 into law (History.com)

1960’s

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History of the U.S. Civil Rights Movement

• Dr. King is assassinated
• Popular Black Muslim leader

Malcolm X is also assassinated

(History.com)

1960’s

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History of the U.S. Civil Rights Movement

• President Johnson signs the

Fair Housing Act, outlawing housing discrimination on the basis of race, religion, or national origin.

(History.com)

1960’s

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Current State of Affairs

Ferguson, MO 2014

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Current State of Affairs

Book cover (Boyd)

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Current State of Affairs

• Black citizens are now widely considered equal to whites or

any others in the United States, both legally and socially.

• Many hailed the election of Barack Obama as President as a

sign that America -- even white America -- was comfortable with the idea of black leadership (Haygood and Brown).

• Other groups successfully fought for their own Civil Rights,

from women’s rights (Roe v. Wade; Title IX) to LGBT (right to marry & serve in military, protection from job discrimination.)

First, the Good News

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Current State of Affairs

• Movements like Black Lives Matter have risen in response to

a criminal justice system that sees blacks imprisoned at six times the rate of whites (Rector).

• High-profile shootings of black citizens by police officers spur

heated debates about lethal force.

• And the typical black family still has just 1/10 the wealth of a

white family (Schermerhorn).

On the Other Hand...

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Helpers and Activism

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Helpers and Activism

• Thought leaders like

Bryan Stevenson Michelle Alexander, and Ta-Nehisi Coates speak boldly on issues of fairness and justice.

Bryan Stevenson

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Helpers and Activism

• Musicians and poets like the Bay Area’s Danez Smith write

about the painful injustices of black life today, even while they fight to add new ideas about gender norms to the mainstream.

Danez Smith

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Helpers and Activism

• Many organizations born between slavery and Civil Rights

now carry powerful voices, bringing legal action and fighting for protections that previous generations could only dream of.

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Thank you.

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Works Cited

Boyd, Herb, and Todd Burroughs. “Civil Rights: Yesterday & Today.” Civil Rights: Yesterday & Today, West Side Pub., 2010. “Civil Rights Movement.” History.com, A&E Television Networks, 21 Aug. 2018, www.history.com/topics/civil-rights-movement. Davis, Lucy. “Home.” Adam Matthew Digital, 1 June 2016, www.amdigital.co.uk/about/blog/item/naacp-against-segregation. Hansen, Drew. “Mahalia Jackson, and King's Improvisation.” The New York Times, The New York Times, 28 Aug. 2013, www.nytimes.com/2013/08/28/opinion/mahalia-jackson-and-kings-rhetorical-improvisation.html. Haygood, Wil, and DeNeen Brown. “For Many Blacks, Obama's Reelection Cements His Legacy.” The Washington Post, WP Company, 7 Nov. 2012, www.washingtonpost.com/politics/decision2012/for-many-blacks-obamas-reelection-cements-his-le gacy/2012/11/07/e83ccd7c-27b7-11e2-9972-71bf64ea091c_story.html. SAMPLE PRESENTATION

Works Cited

Johnson, Alex B. “Good Trouble: John Lewis and Andrew Aydin.” The Bitter Southerner, bittersoutherner.com/good-trouble-john-lewis-andrew-aydin-march. McCarthy, Joe. “9 Black Activists Who Are Fighting Injustice And Fixing America.” Global Citizen, 24

• Feb. 2017, www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/9-black-activists-who-are-fighting-injustice-and-f/.

“What Are Civil Rights?” Findlaw, civilrights.findlaw.com/civil-rights-overview/what-are-civil-rights.html#where. Rector, Kevin. “Baltimore State's Attorney Mosby: Flawed Criminal Justice System Is Black Americans' Biggest Civil Rights Issue.” Baltimoresun.com, Baltimore Sun, 17 Nov. 2019, www.baltimoresun.com/maryland/baltimore-city/bs-md-ci-racial-injustice-20191116-gy7qpqp55zeih addfkkdgr23ji-story.html. Schermerhorn, Calvin. “Perspective | Why the Racial Wealth Gap Persists, More than 150 Years after Emancipation.” The Washington Post, WP Company, 19 June 2019, www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/06/19/why-racial-wealth-gap-persists-more-than-years-aft er-emancipation/. SAMPLE PRESENTATION