Civil Rights Movement - Part 2

Hello class! Welcome to the Civil Rights Movement Part 2.<br> Remember we are going to explain key events of the Civil Rights Movement. But as we?re going through these key events we wanna think about the fight for Civil Rights. What does that mean? It?s a fight for freedom, due process, not being discriminated against or treated differently because of your race, and fighting for equal protection under the law.<br> Our first event is the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Here you see a bus that is segregated that required African-Americans to ride in the back of the bus. Well, Rosa Parks refused to move from the Whites only section and she was arrested for violating the laws of segregation. Why is that important? It lead to a boycott. A boycott is when you refuse to pay for something, or do something to make a political statement. When African-Americans walked and refused to pay to ride the buses, that hurt the bus system. So, it paid off in the end and segregation on buses was ended.<br> Right here we Doctor Martin Luther King Jr., the head of the Civil Rights Movement. Non-violent civil disobedience. What?s important to know about this is many people, here he is being arrested again, many people criticized him and just said let the courts handle the Civil Rights issue. All this civil disobedience and nonviolent protests is just causing more problems. Well, he wrote to the people and said, ?You know what? Non-violent civil disobedience is the way to make change? and he was going to continue to do that.<br> Alright, you have a group here called the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee or ?sit-ins? was one of Martin Luther King?s form on nonviolent civil disobedience. Here, this is a restaurant that only serves white people. So, they are protesting the segregation of that. And they would just sit there all day. People would spit at them, call them the n-word, say horrible things to them, dunk milkshakes on them, but they were peacefully saying that I am a human and I deserve to be served here.<br> Next event, these things, also another way to protest segregation were called Freedom Rides. Here you have people, both black and white, who would board buses and travel all along the southeast and protest the different segregated areas. And as you see here they were met with violence sometimes where there bus was actually set on fire.<br> Very important legislation for our last two slides here. President Lyndon B. Johnson with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in the background, signing the Civil Rights Act of 1964. What did it do? Prohibited segregation in public facilities. Segregation is over. Prohibited discrimination in education and employment. This is a very important act and legislation. And really it was pushed through after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Lyndon B. Johnson was really able to push this legislation through.<br> And lastly, we have the Voting Rights Act of 1965. What did it do? It suspended literacy tests for voter registration. So part of the resistance to equality, especially in the South, we?ve talked about this literacy tests. These tests were not even passable, but forced African-Americans to take them and at many times prohibited them from being able to vote. It sent federal officials to polling stations where African-Americans were being denied the right to vote. The bullying, the racism, trying to stop African-Americans from having a voice in their government. Now the federal troops would be there to make sure they got the right to vote. What was the result of all this? Well, it led to a huge increase in African-American voter registration in public office. A voice for African-Americans in continuing the fight for equality. <br> This concludes our video. I?ll see you guys in class.<br>