Transcript Civil Rights Terms - Burke County Public Schools

What is discrimination?
• the unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people or
things, especially on the grounds of race, age, or sex
• Are any of the following discriminatory?
– “Stop and Frisk”
• Average from 2002 to 2013 the number of individuals stopped without any convictions
was 87.6%.
• In 2012, New Yorkers were stopped by the police 532,911 times
473,644 were totally innocent (89 percent).
284,229 were black (55 percent).
165,140 were Latino (32 percent).
50,366 were white (10 percent).
– Mandatory Minimum Sentences for Drug Offenses
• Possession of 28 grams (.0617 lbs) of crack cocaine yields a five-year mandatory
minimum sentence for a first offense; it takes 500 grams (1.1lbs) of powder cocaine to
prompt the same sentence
– Revocation of Voting Rights for Convicted Felons
• If more African-Americans are convicted of felonies when whites arrested for the same
crimes plead down to misdemeanors, you have a large portion of the population
disenfranchised (New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/23/politics/campaign/23felons.html?module=Search
&mabReward=relbias%3Aw%2C{%221%22%3A%22RI%3A5%22}&_r=0)
Civil Rights Terms:
Using Phones/Tablets or books, look
up these terms
a) Brown vs. Board of
Education
b) Montgomery Bus Boycott
c) Little Rock Nine
d) Medgar Evers
e) SNCC
f) Greensboro Sit-ins
g) Birmingham/Bombingham
h) 16th Street Baptist Church
i)
j)
k)
l)
m)
n)
o)
p)
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Freedom Summer
Selma to Montgomery
George Wallace
Voting Rights Act of 1965
24th Amendment
SCLC
March on Washington for
Jobs and Equality
q) Affirmative Action
r) Lester Maddox
More Radical Elements…
• Nation of Islam
– Led by Elijah Muhammad
– Famous members like Malcom
X and Muhammad Ali
– Black pride, self-sufficiency,
self-defense
• Black Panthers (1966)
– Oakland, CA
– Anti-Vietnam
– Led by Huey Newton and
Bobby Seale
• BOTH groups didn’t believe
King’s approach to nonviolence worked quick enough
• White Citizens Councils (1954)
– Local groups
– Typically drew more middle
and upper class membership
than the KKK
– In addition to using violence
and intimidation to counter
civil rights goals, they sought to
economically and socially
oppress blacks
– King described the WCC as a
modern Ku Klux Klan, targeting
black AND white people
supportive of civil rights