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What were the major social events?

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Emmett Till
Sit-ins and Freedom Rides
Rosa Park and the Montgomery Bus Boycott
The rise of black power, the black panthers

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What were the major political events?

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Brown V the Board of education
The Civil Rights Bill
Martin Luther King
the Voting rights act

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How do you determine the reliability of a source?

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The 5 P’s

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PPPPP stands for?

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Primary or secondary (what impact does this have)
Provenance (the origin (where did it come from)
Purpose (what is the aim, audience, etc)
Perspective (what is the context of the writer i relation to the text)
Pcorroberation (backing it up with another source)

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Intro

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overview of civil rights, identify events (political-martin luther, brown v board, Civil Rights Bill, Voting rights act and Social-Rosa parks and montgomery bus boycott, emmett till, freedom rides, school of rock, The rise of black power, the black panthers)

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Body

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topic sentence
reference sources
linking sentence

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Conclusion

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Reiterate your argument

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Who began the movement of Brown V Board

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Thurgood Marshall took the issue of ‘separate but equal’ to the supreme court in 1954

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Why was The Brown V the Board of Education cases passed?

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It deprived African Americans of the rights outlined in the 14th amendment.

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How many schools were desegregated by the end of 1955

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over 500

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Why was the Brown V Board a significant legal victory?

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Because it meant that all ‘jim crow’ laws that relied on the principle of ‘separate but equal’ could now be challenged

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Benefits of Brown V Board?

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African American students could now access better facilities and wouldnt have to travel interstate to attend universities.

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Backlash of Brown V Board?

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Incited riots, revival of white supremacist or hate groups.

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When was Emmett Till murdered?

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28th August 1955

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Where was Till found?

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14 year old Emmett Till was found in the Tallahatchie River

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What happened to Till?

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He was kidnapped, hung, shot and dumped in the river because he whistled at a white women

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Why was the Till trial a set back?

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His murders were acquitted and African American reporters were forced to sit in a segregated area

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Benefits of Till murder?

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Showed that African Americans were still victims of racial injustice and needed more political victories.

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Where and When did the Parks incident occur?

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1st December 1955 in Montgomery Alabama

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What did Rosa Parks do?

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She refused to give up her seat for white man and was the arrested for violating segregation laws

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What was a benefit of the Parks incident?

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It sparked a campaign led by Martin Luther king to desegregate buses in Montgomery

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What was the Montgomery bus boycott?

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African Americans refused to use public transport to force buses to desegregate

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Why was the boycott so effective?

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Because majority of the bus users were African Americans

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When did the bus campaign end? and why?

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November 1956, when the supreme court ruled that segregated buses were illegal

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When did the Little Rock School incident happen?

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September 1957

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What happened when a mob gathered around the African Americans?

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a division of the United States army as well as the state’s militia were called in to protect the students

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Who was bombed in the little rock incident?

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Offices of the school board, the mayors office and the homes of anyone who supported the students.

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When did all of the schools in little rock integrate?

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1962

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What are SIt-ins?

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Civil right activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United states in 1961

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Who was the main influence over the non violent protests?

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Martin Luther King Jr.

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What was the point of freedom rides?

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To bring attention to the fact that transport in the southern states were still segregated even though the supreme court ruled against it in 1956

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What group formed as a result of sit ins?

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SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee)

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What caused the Birmingham Riots?

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An African American army veteran James Meredith enrolled at the University of Mississippi in 1962

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How many people died in the Birmingham riots?

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2 died many injured. There was no action taken against those involved in the riots

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What happened during Martin Luther King Jr. demonstration in April and May 1963?

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Police dogs and fire hoses were turned on the nonviolent protestors and over 3000 people were arrested

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Why were the nonviolent protests advantageous to the African Americans?

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Because the nature of their protests made the response of the Birmingham authorities seem extreme

37
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Who passed the Civil rights bill and when?

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President John F. Kennedy and 2nd July 1964 after the riots

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What did the bill consist of?

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  • Give the federal government greater powers to desegregate schools
  • Make discrimination illegal in programs receiving funding from the federal government
  • Make discrimination in public places illegal
  • Make discrimination in employment illegal and establish an Equal Employment
  • Opportunity Commission
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What pushed the bill to be passed?

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The washington March in August 1963 a nonviolent march that consisted of over 250,000 supporters of the Civil Rights Movement

40
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At what march was Martin Luthers ‘I have a dream’’ speech given

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At the Washington march in August 1963

41
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All movements from 1950-1960 were…

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non-violent

42
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Where did the push non violent movements come from?

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From Martin Luther KIng and his Catholic views he also based his teachings on Mohandas Ghandis way of non violent protestors.

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How long did the Riots in Watts, Los Angeles?

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six days in 1965

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What caused divisions within the movement?

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Continuing poverty, racial discrimination and violent backlashes. Many believed that moderate actions were failing and that nonviolence was irrelevant in a racist country.

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Who came up with the concept of black power?

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Stokely Carmichael. He condoned use of violence.

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What was the aim of the Black Power concept?

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The movement aimed to gain power socially, politically and economically rather than gaining equality.

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What violent group emerged late 1960s?

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The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense. They were an armed group of African Americans who operated basic services in the urban ghettos, patrolled the streets and called for an armed revolution.

48
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What did the nation of islam focus on?

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Separation rather than integration

49
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What did the Nation of Islam Believe?

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Intense racial pride, the idea of self-help , strict self-discipline and African American unity.

50
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Who was the most famous advocate of the Nation of Islam?

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Malcom X. He rejected the civil rights movement strategy of nonviolence and instead advocated violent protest means.

51
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What does CORE stand for?

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Congress Of Racial Equality

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What did CORE do?

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Engaged in sit-ins and picketing campaigns to desegregate public accommodations in the northern cities. They also became participate of the Freedom rides, Freedom Summer and the Black Power Movement.

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What does SNCC stand for?

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Student Nonviolence Co-ordinating Committee

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What did the SNCC do?

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Coordinating student led sit-ins in Greensbro and later throughout the deep south supporting these activist to help publicise their activities.

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What does SCLC stand for?

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Southern Christian Leadership Conference

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What did the SCLC do?

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Founded by Martin Luther KIng Jr. this group sought to attack inequality and injustice with the use of nonviolent direct action.

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What does NAACP stand for?

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National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People.

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What did the NAACP do?

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Sought to bring about legal solutions to Americans race problems.

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Intro Info?

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  • In the 1950s progress in the north little change in the south
  • Political gain but social not accepted

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