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Civil Rights Movement
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The Brown Decision
Superme Court desion Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka. This landmark decision outlaw racial segragation in public schoo. Whites around the country condemned the decision, and in the South such white supremacist groups as the Ku Klux Klan and the Citizens' Council orgaized to resist desegregation, sometimes resorting to violence. The NAACP had filed a procession of cout cases., including Brow, and had assument that lead in the national struggle against segregated education. -
The Brown Decision
Blacks across the South organized branches to combat discrimination in their communities. -
What is the Civil Rights Movement
Civil Rights Movement can be defined as a mass movement to secure for Africans Americans equal access to and for the privileges and rights of U.S. citizenship. -
The Challenge to Social Segregation
Blacks in Montgomery, Alabama, organized a boycott. It lasted 381 days, the boycott, instigated by Rose Parks, succeeded in integrating the seating. Also led the formation in 1957 of the Southern Chritioan Leadership Conference (SCLC) as the national organization presided over by a local balck minister. -
Jim Crow Laws
The Jim Crow Laws was when centered on the American South, the African Americans population was concentrated and where racial inequality in education, economic opportunity, and the political, processes was most blatant. The Jim Crow Laws restiction on voting qualification that left the black population econimically powerless. Movement therefore adressed primarily three areas of dicrumination: education, social segragation, and voting rights. -
The Brown Decision
When the local school board admitted mine blacks to the city's previously all-white Central High School, white protests escalated into violence, focing President Dwight D. Eisenhower to dispatch federal troops to protect the black students. -
The Challenge to Social Segregation
The founding of another important organization and expanded the monement's participants -
Voting Rights
Blocks climaxed with the Summar Project. Many counties no blacks were registered to vote, COFO launched a massive and largely unsuccessful voter-registration drive. White resistance was widespread and tained by several killings. -
Voting Rights
Block voters in the South remained disfranchised. African Americans initiated local efforts to exercise the right to vote but faced strong and sometimes violent resstence form local whites. -
The Brown Decision
George Wallace, who attempted to block black students from enrolling at the University of Alabama.
