Unit 4: Civil Rights Part 1and 2

Arrested when she refused to move so a white passenger could have her seat

• Ruby Bridges

• Linda Brown

• Rosa Parks

• Martin Luther King, Jr

• For more than a year Americans refused to ride the buses in Montgomery. 

• It didn't end until the Supreme Court declared that segregation on public buses was illegal.

• Montgomery Bus Boycott

• Freedom Riders

• Brown vs Board of Education

• Rosa Parks

• Practiced passive resistance (opposing something without using violence) by riding buses to see if public transportation was obeying the law

• Linda Brown

• Martin Luther King, Jr.

• Rosa Parks

• Freedom Riders

• Lawyer for Linda Brown, whose landmark case before the Supreme Court declared that segregation was illegal under the Constitution

• FIRST AFRICAN AMERICAN SUPREME COURT JUSTICE

• Thurgood Marshall

• Martin Luther King, Jr.

• Rosa Parks

• Linda Brown

• Linda Brown, 7, was not allowed to go to a public school, which was only a few blocks from her home. 

• She was bused to a school for African American students. 

• The Brown family took their case to court. 

• May 17, 1954: Supreme Court ruled segregation of public schools illegal under the Constitution

• Thurgood Marshall

• Brown vs Board of Education

• Freedom Riders

• Montgomery Bus Boycott

• Fought for Civil Rights of African Americans

• Promoted passive resistance

• Planned many of the resistances

• Killed in Memphis, TN, on April 4, 1968, by James Earl Ray

• Thurgood Marshall

• Rosa Parks

• Martin Luther King, Jr.

• Ruby Bridges

• Established in 1932 in Monteagle, TN

• Goals: help poor Southerners improve their lives AND end racial segregation

• Since it was one of the few places where it was safe for African American and white people to work together, it trained leaders for the Civil Rights Movement. Students learned nonviolent ways to protest racism and segregation.

• Highlander School

• Tent Cities

• Interstate Highways

• Clinton 12

• Even into the 1950s, African Americans in Tennessee had difficulty registering to vote. In Fayette and Haywood counties, they organized voter registration drives and voted in the next elections. 

• To punish these African Americans, people evicted them from their homes. A local African American let these homeless people set up tents on his land. 

• This gained national attention and people began sending food and supplies to the residents.

• Highlander School

• Tent City Movement of Fayette County

• Clinton 12

• Little Rock 9

• Following Brown v. Board (1954), states had to desegregate schools.

• The first public school to integrate in Tennessee was in Clinton in 1956. The first African American students to attend this school

• Little Rock 9

• Highlander School

• Tent City Movement

• Clinton 12

• Black and white college students used nonviolent methods to desegregate downtown Nashville, TN.

• The students staged a sit-in at segregated city lunch counters in February 1960. 

• First, they were ignored, but when they returned again and again, they were beaten and jailed. 

• Led to a boycott of downtown store

• Business leaders applied pressure for a political solution.

• The bombing of a prominent black lawyer’s house prompted the students to march on city hall to confront the mayor. 

• After the mayor was forced to admit that segregation was wrong, Nashville bagan to desegregate.

• Tent City Movement of Fayette County

• Highlander School

• Nashville Sit-Ins

• Civil Rights Act