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A Push for Equality

Civil Rights Movement:Political, Legal, and Social struggle to gain full

citizenship rights for African Americans and to achieve racial equality.

Basis for entire section

Key Definition

All of the following lead to changes…African American Migration (North)World War IIThe New Deal

Demand For Change…

African Americans had opportunities to workSome laws also changed (Executive Order

8022)Holocaust images also seen in the U.S.

World War II/New Deal

African American Migration

Rise of Organized MovementsVery important to become organized

3 Groups will Organize:NAACPSCLCCORE

How many of you have heard of one of this organizations?

The Second Push

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

Founded in 1909It is an interracial organizationUpper-middle class African Americans

supportMain Focus: Challenging the Laws,

worked to secure full legal equality

NAACP

Southern Christian Leadership ConferenceFounded in 1957The South’s New VoiceMartin Luther King Jr. became a National

figureMain Focus: Preached and Practiced Non-

Violent Protest

SCLC

Congress of Racial EqualityFounded in 1942Both African American and white membersPlayed a major role in the big urban citiesMain Focus: Bring about change through

peaceful confrontation

CORE

What are these Groups Fighting?

What do you see in this picture?

What do you see in this picture?