1、Civil rights movement A. What is civil rights movement ? B. How did it come about? Or what was the background then? C. Big events timeline and great figures D. What was the result or the influence of it? What is civil rights movement The civil rights movement was a worldwide political movement for e

2、quality before the law occurring between approximately 1950s and 1980s. Main battle fields:Northern Ireland Africa Canada United States German France In many situations it took the form of campaigns of civil resistance aimed at achieving change by nonviolent forms of resistance.(sit-in , boycotts et

3、c.) In some situations it was accompanied, or followed, by armed rebellion. How did it come about After white-dominated Democratic Party regained political control over the South. The Republican Partythe party of Lincolnwhich had been the party that most blacks belonged to, shrank to insignificance

4、as black voter registration was suppressed. By the early 20th century, almost all elected officials in the South were Democrats. Ku Klux KlanFormer Confederate soldiers founded the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) after the American Civil War (1861-1865). The KKK used violence and intimidation to prevent blacks f

5、rom voting and holding office, and to keep them segregated. During the same time as African Americans were being disfranchised, white Democrats imposed racial segregation by law. Violence against blacks mushroomed. A movement was brewing.Big events and important figures It begins with a bus. The Nat

6、ional City Lines bus, No. 2857, is now a museum exhibit at the Henry Ford Museum. Big events and important figures 1955 - Rosa Parks refused to move to the back of bus as required by city regulation; boycott followed and bus segregation ordinance is declared unconstitutional. the system of segregati

7、on used on Montgomery buses Rosa Parks in 1955, February 4, 1913-24, 2005 (aged 92)Trigger of the boycottone of the pioneers of the civil rights movement Goal: to demand a fixed dividing line for the segregated sections of the buses: if the white section of the bus was oversubscribed, whites would h

8、ave to stand; blacks need not give their seats to whites. The boycott gained support from black community. About 50 000 blacks participated Since the citys black population who were the drivers of the boycott were also the main pary of the systems ridership. crippling financial deficit for the Montg

9、omery public transit systemVictory on November 13, 1956, the Supreme Court ruled that Montgomery racial segregation laws for buses were illegal. 1957 - Arkansas Gov. uses National Guard to block nine black students from attending a Little Rock High School; following a court order, President Eisenhow

10、er sends in Federal Troops to ensure compliance. 1962 - President Kennedy sends federal troops to the University of Mississippi to ensure James Meredith, the schools first black student, can attend. 1963 - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivers I Have a Dream speech to hundreds of thousands at the Marc

11、h on Washington. 1964 - Congress passes Civil Rights Act declaring discrimination based on race illegal after 75-day long argument. 1968 - Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee; 1973 - Maynard Jackson ,first black elected mayor of a major Southern U.S. city- Atlanta 1975 -Vot

12、ing Rights Act extended. 1988 - Congress passes Civil Rights Restoration Act over President Reagans veto. 1989 - L. Douglas Wilder (Virginia) becomes first black elected governor. 1991 - Civil rights museum opens at King assassination site in Memphis. 2009 - Barack Obama took the office of white hou

13、se in 2009Influence Before Rosa Parks died, she worried that the young generation of Black American might take equality before the law for granted while forget the effort and scarification of their forefathers. Now the status of black people have improved a lot as a result of civil right movement. But Kings dream of true equality for