Civil Rights - Overview

Timeline Paulsen, R.(2008). Civil rights progress 1954-1968 [Image], Retrieved November 9th, 2011, from: (http://rapaulsen.iweb.bsu.edu/portfolio/civilrights.html)

Civil Rights Importance in Education

Why did Civil Rights become a topic in higher education?
Segregation of schools
Was this constitutional? Was this ethical?

Creates barriers and limits for minorities

Less access to education Insufficient and low quality education Lack of resources in minority schools
Funding Teachers Books

Key People
Dwight D. Eisenhower
President who did not support desegregation making efforts to progress very difficult. However, he signed the Civil Rights Act of 1957 more as a political endeavor.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Nonviolent efforts to end segregation and discrimination I Have a Dream March on Washington Nobel Peace Prize in 1964

Key People - Continued

Thurgood Marshall
Helped win Brown v. Board of Education as a lawyer First black appointee to Supreme Court

Rosa Parks
Executed the first successful nonviolent civil rights movement, by refusing to move from her seat for a white on a bus Actions encouraged the Montgomery bus boycott in later years

Lyndon B. Johnson
Supported Civil Rights Movement during his presidency Big contributor to the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act

Events Little Rock High School

A crisis that happened in 1957 Governor Orval Faubus defied federal law to integrate schools. Federal troops were sent in to enforce the law. Orval had Arkansas National Guard stop the nine black students from entering the school. Eisenhower sent 1000 troops to escort the students to class, despite his lack of support for the Civil Rights Movement.

Events - Brown v. Board of Education

This event jumpstarted the Civil Rights Movements during this time period. Linda Brown was a 7 year old black child from Topeka Kansas, and had to walk through a train switching yard to get to a bus to go to an all black school, with an all white school right down the street Thurgood Marshall was one of her lawyers, along with the NAACP Supreme court overturned the Plessey v. Ferguson case and deemed that segregation in public schools was ILLEGAL
This was a huge leap in the Civil Rights Movement Was not implemented immediately but it was a great first step

Coined the term Separate but Equal

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Events Civil Rights Act 1964

Law that Lyndon B. Johnson pushed which made it illegal to discriminate in any public place or in the workplace due to race, religion, nationality, or gender. Reinforced the finding in Brown v. Board of Education further emphasizing equality, especially in education Helped feminist movement in late 1960s Also created the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

References Not sure how to cite the video

Cohen, A. M. (2010). The shaping of American higher education (2nd ed). SanFrancisco, CA: Jossey-Bass. Thelin, J. R. (2004). A history of American higher education. Baltimore, MD: Jon Hopkins University Press. AmericanHistoryRules. (2008, May 5). Brown v. board of education. Retrieved from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2XHob_nVbw Orfield, G. (2001). Schools More Separate: Consequences of a Decade of Resegregation. The Civil Rights Project, Harvard University. Pages 154. Retrieved from http://eric.ed.gov/PDFS/ED459217.pdf Moreno, P.A. (2003). The History of Affirmative Action Law and its Relation to College Admission. The Journal of College Admission, 179, 14-21. Retrieved from http://web.ebscohost.com Shank, E., Fahs, B. (2011). Students for Peace: Contextual and Framing Motivations of Antiwar Activism. Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare, 38(2), 111-136. Retrieved from http://web.ebscohost.com

Pictures If you want to cite them

http://www.women-problem.com/humanrights/civil-rights.html

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http://blog.reidreport.com/2009/09/the-teabaggers-marchon-washington/

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http://kansas150slk.blogspot.com/2010/07/brown-v-board-of-education.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_Parks

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