17. The 1960s

This Supreme Court decision overturned the old decision from Plessy v. Ferguson and made segregation in schools ILLEGAL.

• Brown v. Board of Education

• Scott v. Sandford

• Madison v. Marbury

Idea that it is OK to break an unjust law:

• Sit-in Logic

• Reciprocal Justice

• Civil Disobedience

Explained (by MLK Jr. ) that change needed to happen sooner & that segregation needed to be met head-on:

• Gettysburg Address

• The New Frontier

• Letter from a Birmingham jail

• The Great Society

Outlined MLK's vision of a society free from segregation. This speech helped the Civil Rights Act of 1964 get passed.

• The Gettysburg Address

• The Iron Curtain Speech

• The New Frontier

• "I Have a Dream" Speech

Southern Christian Leadership Conference. This group was built around black churches and believed in non-violence.

• SCLC

• SNCC

Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee. This group was built around college students, was very integrated, but also believed in non-violence.

• SCLC

• SNCC

• Black Panther Party

Peacefully protesting segregation by occupying space in a racially restricted area:

• Boycott

• March/Demonstration

• Freedom Ride

• Sit in

Integrated bus rides through the South to challenge segregation laws:

• Boycotts

• March/peaceful demonstration

• Freedom Rides

• Sit ins

A law that ended discrimination in public places:

• Jim Crow Law

• Civil Rights Act of 1964

• Voting Rights Act of 1965

• Separate but equal

This law made literacy tests illegal and led to more African American voters in the south:

• Black Codes

• Voting Rights act of 1965

• Grandfather Clause

• Jim Crow Law